Example sentences of "[vb past] their [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guiding Lights was showing normal navigation lights but the pitch darkness made distance deceptive and the watchers ashore strained their ears for signs of shore contacts . |
| 2 | Recent studies also claim that the stability of the placement for special needs children who maintained their links with members of their natural families was not threatened ( Borland et al . , |
| 3 | With a budget of $70 million , Spielberg has splashed out on elaborate sets and fancy effects , while the bigger stars deferred their salaries in favour of a share of profits . |
| 4 | With a budget of $70 million , Spielberg has splashed out on elaborate sets and fancy effects , while the bigger stars deferred their salaries in favour of a share of profits . |
| 5 | She described their properties of healing of invigoration . |
| 6 | South Carolina rice growers boomed after 1730 and reinforced their fortunes from indigo after 1750 . |
| 7 | And I am not talking about the drunken louts who beat their wives to death in a cellar . |
| 8 | The fliers immediately stopped their displays in respect for the dead man . |
| 9 | Our lads know this and it 's many months ago that they first trained their sights on success in Newry . ’ |
| 10 | When he became pharaoh , they changed their names in honour of the Old Religion — he to Tutankhamun , she to Ankhsenpaamun . |
| 11 | During this period contractors frequently made payments in cash and individual sub-contractors changed their names from time to time to avoid detection by Inland Revenue inspectors . |
| 12 | This led him to insist that those who had , however tenuously , dedicated their lives to God in religious vows were bound by them beyond recall . |
| 13 | It was filled with sacks of corn and oats that mingled their scents with hay from the loft above and the lingering fragrance of the last of the stored apples . |
| 14 | Dealers used their clients as guinea-pigs for their untried techniques . |
| 15 | Many women met their husbands from work at dinner time and did their weekly shopping , taking advantage of the cheaper prices at the market and some to ensure they got their housekeeping money before their spouses spent their wages on drink . |
| 16 | The ACCs expanded their exports of manufacturing by 480 per cent between 1950 and 1971 . |
| 17 | Hot springs and fiery eruptions , the usual attendants upon earthquakes , lent their contributions of confusion to the scene . |
| 18 | The fact that lapis lazuli seems to have appeared first in north Mesopotamia rather than south argues that the Sumerians got their supplies by way of Iran rather than by the Indus and the sea route . |
| 19 | Besides , hearing of cases brought by the state against thieves who passed their finds to dealers on the black market and failed to report to the Commission on Antiquities ended his youthful enthusiasm for archaeology : Davide was law-abiding by temperament . |
| 20 | Punters who burned their fingers on Picton at Romford should give the unlucky Kim Marlow runner another chance . |
| 21 | At times when the winds obliged , Torbay smacks sailed their catches to Portsmouth for a shorter van-haul to the capital . |
| 22 | Nineteenth-century choreographers who adopted this style defined the characters by certain known habits and actions , and told their stories by means of conventional gestures during the scènes and pas d'action . |
| 23 | Protectionists in Europe and America would rejoice , as they buried their governments under demands for trade ‘ remedies ’ of every sort — a super-301 action here , a countervailing duty there . |
| 24 | Who will join them in the Second Division is still a long way from being decided but GS Stirling enhanced their prospects of survival by beating Inverleith 2-0 . |
| 25 | When the academies opened their doors to women in 1919 the association changed its curriculum to offer preparatory courses , the drawing teachers ' course was closed and for a while they placed emphasis on the trade-oriented forms , like book-binding which was also started later at the state school . |
| 26 | What sort of a world would it be if people just turned their backs on things like this ? ’ |
| 27 | One of the breed of working class Northern actors who led the British cinema revival in the early Sixties and equally , one of those who turned their backs on Hollywood for more satisfying , artistically if not financially , work in the theatre . |
| 28 | It was a pretty lane , winding its way between two meadows , sheltered on either side by tall hazel hedges , which shook their bunches of catkins in a friendly , welcoming way . |
| 29 | LIVERPOOL shook their heads in disbelief at the cruel circumstances of the heaviest defeat Graeme Souness has suffered as a manager . |
| 30 | Kant and Rousseau based their conceptions of freedom on this ideal of self-legislation . |