Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The directors , who claimed they had not been consulted properly about the scheme , agreed to continue to run their buses to the estate for a trial period when the humps are introduced . |
| 2 | The Presidents of the six republics formerly comprising Yugoslavia agreed to work to restore their economic links . |
| 3 | Calling for positive political action from local parties and the Irish government , he said that agreement on a basis for formal negotiation was " close and attainable " but that the constitutional parties involved needed to demonstrate their political will . |
| 4 | especially when the " coalies " tried to keep open their avenue of escape by parading their Liberalism . |
| 5 | Brewers found to have diluted their products were to be incarcerated in their own vats . |
| 6 | Is n't it time some players , who should know better , stopped trying to get their fellow sports players sent off by over-reacting after tackles ? |
| 7 | But the few houses they passed seemed to have their doors locked and bolted and their windows shuttered . |
| 8 | They 'd always taught her that the only truly good things were those of permanent value ; her first school had been a church school , and twice a week they 'd had to set their chairs in a raggedy half-circle and fidget their way through one of the vicar 's haranguing lectures on Life . |
| 9 | If I was , er , at the time of Elizabeth , she 'd had had their head off . |
| 10 | So dubious were the powers-that-be in Britain of a single female agent being dropped into occupied France without back-up that they 'd refused to give their assistance . |
| 11 | Servants came running to take their horses , leading them back to the stables . |
| 12 | Well they , they said at that meeting they 'd hoped to have their system for the next one which is the seventeenth October |
| 13 | He 's he 's out yes and there are two or three in which have erm you know they 're sorry that they 've gone back and er we feel sorry sort of for them that they 've dropped into and a lot of our young lads have got mortgages and all that but there are some gone back er they need not people erm they 'd finished rearing their families and everything . |
| 14 | Shottermill 's three main strikers , Bob Daynes , Nick Wells and Joe O'Shea , seemed to have lost their scoring touch just when 'Mill needed it most . |
| 15 | Overall , Ecclestone and Balestre both seemed to have lost their minds . |
| 16 | Yorkshire wanted 145 from the last 20 overs and they seemed to have lost their way when Sachin Tendulkar needlessly ran himself out and Richard Blakey cut a hard catch to Trump . |
| 17 | He seemed to have dismissed their disturbing conversation to some distant recess in his mind . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , in this case I do believe there is some value in tracing differences in the perspectives from which various groups of colleagues seemed to have developed their thinking . |
| 19 | Half of them seemed to have met their partners at practice or come from bell-ringing families . |
| 20 | He whistled mechanically at the back view of a girl waiting to cross the intersection , though of late girls seemed to have lacked their usual charm for him . |
| 21 | Before then , despite a number of chances , this game had nil all written all over it ; United did have their chances , they hit the post , Steve Foster and Martin Foyle both went close but the ball never appeared to be going into the back of the net . |
| 22 | Some 114 sites surveyed had improved their environmental performance while that of 30 had deteriorated . |
| 23 | By then , though , in a rare escape from their own half , United had scored their second . |
| 24 | In point of fact little Dwight ( a chubby child , the offspring of shopkeepers , who bribed him with trash food every time he seemed to want to divert their attention from the business of making money ) turned out to be one of Kennedy 's children — for even in his teens he knew a rising star when he saw one . |
| 25 | CHESHAM United have appointed their third manager this season and their fourth in just over a year , following the resignation of Dave Brown . |
| 26 | He says that he did not kill you or your companions because you were unarmed , and anyway he thought that the two he killed intended to use their weapons on you . ’ |
| 27 | Royalists might be asked to image what their reaction would be if the monarch started to revive ancient powers to dismiss governments or began refusing to give their assent to acts of parliament . |
| 28 | Many pregnant women felt discomfort as their ligaments and muscles began to stretch to accommodate their growing uterus and the life it contained . |
| 29 | Everyone did their own labelling. , As a result of this approach , a strong camaraderie developed between the Roddicks and the franchisees they selected to help spread their business philosophy . |
| 30 | What Radio Bucharest announced was what people had to believe in public , in other words the formulas that they needed to repeat to prove their loyalty and conformity to the regime . |