Example sentences of "to the [noun] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the courts undertook to rewrite statutes this would tend to foment litigation , because it would encourage people who objected to the legislation to try their luck with the courts . ’ |
| 2 | Miles called to the hunters to increase their speed . |
| 3 | Rose had come to the dance to claim their place as a couple among the people in this loose , Christmas carnival . |
| 4 | They [ Catholics ] come to the church to feede their eyes , and not their soules : they are not taught , that no visible thing is to be worshipped . |
| 5 | In spite of which , the impression they gave was of being identical , and it was left to the owners to give their property whatever signs of individuality they could , by making neat little gardens , or by not doing so , by cleaning the windows once a month , or by not doing so . |
| 6 | WITH the two main floodlit tournaments in Junior Rugby just around the corner , many clubs are looking forward to the opportunity to sharpen their skills in preparation for the first batch of league matches . |
| 7 | And then a woman who had come in to sell flowers to the customers overheard their conversation and intervened . |
| 8 | Then , since the fisherman did not come home , every morning she took his supper to the cliff-side and fed it to the wild snakes ; every noon she took the hempen nets and gave them to the sea-birds to build their nests . |
| 9 | Traditionally they had looked to the Reich to trade their lumber , wheat , furs and amber , and they had every intention of continuing to do so in order to spite the Polish state . |
| 10 | It is to the Annales school , and more particularly to the assumptions governing their work , that I therefore turn , aiming to show how they have successfully applied the precepts of concessive holism to a wide range of subject , and in this way to suggest how the idea that holist explanations answer to a certain interest can be developed and defended . |
| 11 | You can pass , in a short tour , the BBC , LWT , Granada , Central and a host of other UK broadcasters , Berlusconi , Freemantle/Talbot ( ‘ The World 's Biggest Supplier of Game Shows ’ , according to the slogan adorning their massive exhibition space ) , a bewildering array of Euro-broadcasters , MTV ( USA ) and literally hundreds of producers of everything from serious arts/documentary programmes to kids ' animation , producers of ‘ erotic ’ material , light entertainment and cult films . |
| 12 | It is simply that with direct insurance customers come straight to the company to buy their insurance , usually by phone . ‘ |
| 13 | First they gather information about their neighbourhood before coming back to the school to translate their ideas , ( in best Blue Peter fashion ) with glue , cloth , cigarette packets , and other recyclable materials , into a colourful collage clock . |
| 14 | For every complaint that you have there may be 20 dissatisfied people that have n't actually come up to the school to make their feelings known — they do n't even tell you that they are upset . |
| 15 | More than 100 parents and children from Abergynolwyn , Llanegryn and Llwyngwril made the 100-mile round trip to Caernarfon to show their opposition to the plan to close their schools and establish a new area school at Bryncrug . |
| 16 | Under the feudal system , landowners owing service to the king imposed their own service demands on their tenants , usually involving a cash rent in return for the lease of farmlands . |
| 17 | Reliance was placed on Director of Public Prosecutions v. Ellis [ 1973 ] 1 W.L.R. 722 , where it was held that the fact that two accused persons had been prosecuted to conviction did not mean that the purposes of Part I of the Act , namely securing compliance with and detecting evasion of the Act , were spent ; and that accordingly it was still open to the authorities to employ their powers to obtain information relative to the same transaction from another person . |
| 18 | '9 In some cases , schools are closed for two or three days a month while the teachers travel to the capital to collect their pay . |
| 19 | Markby battled his way back to the bar to place their order and when he came back they sat and looked shiftily at one another . |
| 20 | Even so , by the end of a match you were seriously depleted and most players repaired to the bar to rebuild their resources . |
| 21 | It was hushed as a mid-week chapel inside H3 because Carol and her typing tribe were all out in the rain with banners bearing crudely daubed exhortations to the government to raise their pay . |
| 22 | Meetings for our members have been held on both of these issues , and in response to the scrutiny review , we circulated our membership with our detailed submission to the government to inform their own responses . |
| 23 | During Queen Victoria 's reign , many that had been formerly open to the public closed their gates , preferring to cultivate the sanctity of ‘ home ’ . |
| 24 | The five B–17s were ferried back to the mainland to resume their more mundane tanker duties . |
| 25 | But he appealed to the students to contain their passion and to show a measure of reason . |
| 26 | However , the policy vacuum which was allowed to develop in this way was inadequately filled by leaving it up to the courts to formulate their own sentencing policy . |
| 27 | The environment calls the tune and the strategic behaviour of individuals is a response to the circumstances affecting their lives . |
| 28 | For example , we might find that the experiences of children in care differ according to the circumstances surrounding their entry , so that grossly abused children may stay longer and occasionally be adopted , while offenders might return to their parents after a relatively short spell in a residential establishment . |
| 29 | The skeletal trees that grew close to the chapel rattled their branches in the wind , which whipped across the open ground . |
| 30 | More than 35,000 had fled Haiti since the coup but only 9,000 had been admitted to the USA to have their cases further examined . |