Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Almost all wore skirts , make up and appeared to have had their hair done especially for the benefit of the cameras . |
| 3 | The Commission so stirred the Poles , that while it had initially been possible for them to buy up Polish estates for German settlement , by 1898 , when the Prussian Landtag voted an additional 100 million marks for the Commission 's use , the Poles had already begun to see the sale of land to the Commission as a crime against the nation and had begun to organise their own agricultural co-operatives and credit unions . |
| 4 | They had entered into complex calculations , weighing up the potential loss of both short- and long-term benefits against the extra cash in their pay packets and had decided to maximise their already low pay at the time they most needed it . |
| 5 | Cynical almost to a man , they expected the worst , and had come to write their stories of poor abused children , evil parents , and the things that ‘ incomers ’ get up to in remote islands . |
| 6 | Following a central tenet of Christian Science the couple had eschewed modern medical methods and had attempted to cure their son 's bowel obstruction through the power of prayer . |
| 7 | All were white , were not taking replacement oestrogens , and had agreed to have their bone density measured before entering a drug study . |
| 8 | Participants attended free , but had to have paid their Society membership ; they were rewarded with an enjoyable day of open classes , display items and cheese-and-wine refreshments . |