Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is wet sieved as above , and both the mud and sand fractions dried and weighed to establish their relative proportions . |
| 2 | The next few weeks were busy one for all the Pack and their mothers , who baked and stitched and sewed , and listened to recitations and lines from plays that were to be performed by the Brownies , and answered their questions about this , that and the other , and tried to put their sudden doubts and fears at rest . |
| 3 | This rule resulted in only a small minority of married women becoming fully insured and helped to reinforce their financial dependence within marriage . |
| 4 | They did so and radioed to confirm their original report . |
| 5 | Each team was given a topic of chemical interest on the previous evening and allowed to use their own facilities to research it and prepare a presentation . |
| 6 | After a basal clinical and laboratory evaluation excluding heart , kidney , and liver disease , they were followed closely as outpatients and allowed to continue their normal diet . |
| 7 | At the first watering place they jumped from the open wagons and rushed to douse their burning clothes . |
| 8 | In an astonishing verbal assault on the justice administration and on the civil service , Hitler — allegedly voicing the exact sentiments of a great proportion of the population — made it clear whom he thought the main culprits were , and threatened to remove their privileged position and ‘ well-established rights ’ and to dismiss offenders instantaneously . |
| 9 | It had been from their lips that I first heard uttered the expression avare comme un juif , followed by a vicious attack on the only Jewish family in their village to have survived the war and returned to claim their old house . |
| 10 | Nutty went to round up the others with the good news and returned to find their new trainer surrounded by an admiring crowd . |
| 11 | Then they killed one of the prisoners and began to cook their terrible meal . |
| 12 | All three republics established their own customs services and began to issue their own stamps and passports ; more significant still , they began to adopt their own budgets and to make preparations for the issuing of local currencies . |
| 13 | Naturally it was not long before other brewers saw the potential and began producing their own NAB/LAB beers , most of which were low-alcohol products . |
| 14 | His audit clients included a number of major Japanese companies which had raised finance overseas and needed to prepare their financial statements in accordance with US GAAP . |
| 15 | So they blocked a local stream , the Lau Bunuk , and started building their own co-operative hydro-electric dam . |
| 16 | They relaxed and started doing their own things . |
| 17 | In July 1990 President Collor and President Menem met in Buenos Aires , the Argentinian capital , and decided to expand their bilateral agreements to involve other countries . |
| 18 | Both students , they had been well equipped and managed to make their own way off the mountain . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the night was nearly ruined for everybody when a horde of beery Welsh rugby fans descended on the venue and proceeded to expose their gargantuan bellies in a threatening manner and generally menace the anorexic pop people present . |
| 20 | Team spirit rarely mattered much since dealers were paid commission on their own business and preferred to develop their own methods of achieving this . |
| 21 | The men wore rubber ponchos and had exchanged their black berets for jungle hats pulled well down against the rain so that he was unable to discern whether Miguelito was amongst their number . |
| 22 | Their dances were usually fast and had to display their exciting footwork , e.g. Petipa 's Bluebird . |
| 23 | The established main roads that had been used for traffic between the medieval towns , and had made their own width with the usage of centuries , were generally left untouched by any parish awards . |
| 24 | For this unprecedented event some 300,000 people turned out — so many , in fact , that they ran out of American , Israeli , French and British flags , and had to make their own crude copies before they could burn them . |
| 25 | But on the North American mainland , colonies had been affected very little by the earlier wars among European countries ; except for the brief clash that had led to the Dutch loss of New Amsterdam the colonies had fought only with ill-armed Indians and had won their little wars without help from England . |
| 26 | Both syndicat s retained their separate titles , policies and regulations and continued to control their own destinies , the Union merely providing a co-operating and co-ordinating service which enabled all négociants in the trade to be represented should the need arise . |
| 27 | The winners — Charles Outred , Vi Mitchell , Ian Howie and Mike McGinley , of Glasgow — had an unassailable lead with one match to go and relaxed to record their only loss in the last round . |
| 28 | Normally kidnap victims are simply turned loose in the middle of nowhere and left to find their own way to the nearest house or main road . |