Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major 's budget failed to change their minds . |
| 2 | An earlier ban failed to halt their destruction . |
| 3 | My heart sank to see their faces . |
| 4 | For instance , in one case the defence counsel tried to establish their client 's case thus — ‘ [ The defendant ] said : ‘ She was not raped at all . |
| 5 | Hammer failed to clear their lines following a deep cross from the right and the ball fell invitingly to Rob Madgwick who volleyed home from eight yards . |
| 6 | After 30 minutes , Chiddingfold were level , 'Mill failed to clear their lines from a free-kick and a low drive took a double deflection off Peter Daynes and Peter Boxall to leave 'keeper Peter Liles stranded . |
| 7 | However , unlike Portugal , who showed glimpses of class , the German side tried to bludgeon their way through with an ill-tempered Claus Hammer as their star . |
| 8 | The most heartening find , however , was that over 90 per cent of participants who undertook an intensive five-month stress intervention programme managed to reduce their biological ages by an average of twelve years . |
| 9 | Both the Winchester Housing Trust and the St. Mary Church Association had had their plans for low cost housing in the village refused . |
| 10 | Are there any better stand-offs than Barnes in England ? ’ — GEORGE HOOKS ( London Irish Coach ) after his side had lost their opening league games to Bath — and Stuart Barnes . |
| 11 | In the past the electorate had had their say by holding accountable , either centrally elected or locally elected officials . |
| 12 | Fear had raised their body heat , and the scent of him was a powerful stimulus her senses responded to . |
| 13 | The Department had underestimated their speaker , and in so doing had made an embarrassing mistake . |
| 14 | The housing department had approved their application for council accommodation . |
| 15 | Many of the young people in the study had made their opinions known to carers . |
| 16 | In general , the women in the study had spent their wages on food , items for the children or had saved some money while their husband 's wages were spent on larger bills . |
| 17 | The two surviving Palestinians were both captured ; they were part of a group , originally six in number , who had landed in two rubber dinghies at Naquarah after an Israeli naval patrol boat had diverted their intended attack on Israel . |
| 18 | By the end of her first term in office the Australian War Cry was reporting that all but one of the forty nine students at the training college had passed their final exam and that twenty eight of the first year students had become Salvationists and eight had applied to be officers . |
| 19 | They had perhaps three hundred yards to cover to the edge of the encampment ; and as they neared this it dawned on Ramsay that , of all things , the enemy had placed their horse-lines here at this western rim of their cantonment . |
| 20 | Dot knew it must be the enemy had dropped their gas canisters to suffocate women and children in a gas-attack . |
| 21 | In the kitchen Matey and McAllister had been compelled to hear every brutal word — neither Dr Neil nor his tormentor had kept their voice down — bustle about and bang pots as they might . |
| 22 | Those who had come by carriage had dismissed their drivers with instructions not to return until early evening and now they were stranded , having to decide whether to wait or walk . |
| 23 | Science teachers had been very responsive to these library-based developments , despite the fact that industrial action had prevented their proper introduction , discussion and evaluation . |
| 24 | The wind had rippled their surface like a sea-bed . |
| 25 | The incident happened the day after the local Gwent police force had launched their anti-drink drive campaign . |
| 26 | On May 17 , local leaders meeting with SNM representatives at the town of Burao in the north-east had given their support to the secession ; according to Le Monde of May 16 and 21 , SNM leaders favoured a federalist solution but had bowed to this grasssroots opinion . |
| 27 | Major repairs in the bell tower needing extensive scaffolding had forced their silence . |
| 28 | By what route this strategy will proceed is unclear — technology swapping , OEM or other — however , the company admits that it probably would have been a good idea had Tandem Computers Inc and Pyramid had meshed their respective hardware and Unix software experience in that area two years ago . |
| 29 | Some staff failed to distinguish between ethnic minority and multicultural needs , and as a result refused to acknowledge their obligations in respect of the latter . |
| 30 | He was by far the most popular Unionist speaker after Law in 1912 and 1913 , the man that every local association wanted to open their bazaars and fates . |