Example sentences of "they and [vb past] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | With our Masai translator and guide we lived with them and accepted their hospitality which was our biggest witness to them . |
| 2 | Gradually these courts decayed , partly owing to the jealousy of the Common Law Courts , which interfered with them and extended their own jurisdiction . |
| 3 | ‘ It will certainly release a lot of the pressure that has surrounded them and made their personal lives very difficult . |
| 4 | The Shah could then have denounced them and ordered their arrest and execution . |
| 5 | A serjeant-at-arms wearing the royal livery stopped them and asked their business before allowing them through . |
| 6 | Has he talked to them and recorded their verbal yes or no ? |
| 7 | It is already technically feasible to build ‘ robot ’ bank and building society branches , but such an exercise would be a disaster if consumers refused to use them and switched their savings elsewhere . |
| 8 | The small group of riders spied them and altered their course to meet the patrol . |
| 9 | Aunt Margaret must have woken them and organised their washing . |
| 10 | ‘ On the occasion the Mayor was driving through the town with another prominent local man when a ‘ super sports ’ car without warning shot in front of them and scraped their bonnet . |
| 11 | As at Lloyd 's of London , they thought that the good days would always be with them and adjusted their pay , and their fees , to suit . |
| 12 | A DESPERATE couple lovingly clasped their handicapped daughter to them and ended their lives after their pleas for help went unanswered . |
| 13 | Sweepers raked the dirt and dung away from the front of stalls ; a muezzin called from the minaret of a nearby mosque ; chai wallahs pulled their blankets closer around them and lit their burners to boil the first tea saucepan of the day . |
| 14 | He saw them in terms of the hours of training he had given them and regarded their departure as something to be listed in the debit columns . |