Example sentences of "[verb] passed their " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Profit " lies here also and some members of this school might have passed their lives in prim obscurity had their names not been made by their own publicity . |
| 2 | Many young drivers , like Paul Standen , may have passed their test , but have never been on a motorway . |
| 3 | It makes no secret of the fact that these drugs , despite having passed their statutory pre-clinical tests upon animals , are now being tested upon us . |
| 4 | Such cases may have been exceptional , but a great many servants seem to have passed their lives in households where their employers knew them by their functions , not their names . |
| 5 | ‘ The danger is that dad says after they 've passed their test , ‘ Take my BMW for a spin ’ , and away they go , ’ says chief examiner Ted Clements . |
| 6 | Before the setbacks , the new Lancias had passed their tests with flying colours . |
| 7 | Just over half a million had passed their 75th birthday and only 57,000 were aged over 85 . |
| 8 | His book Twilight over England , cites the case of a Jewish student who burst into tears when he discovered that he was only the second best and not the best in the list of those who had passed their medical exams . |
| 9 | By the end of her first term in office the Australian War Cry was reporting that all but one of the forty nine students at the training college had passed their final exam and that twenty eight of the first year students had become Salvationists and eight had applied to be officers . |
| 10 | All students had passed their exams and were now working on projects , N Sinclair has succeeded in obtaining a post at Kew . |
| 11 | TRIPS to Ireland recently have reinforced my view that the P ( probationer ) plate carried by those cars driven by people who have passed their driving test within the last year , are a good thing and should be adopted here . |
| 12 | It is not usual to find brand managers or copywriters in advertising agencies who have passed their 40th birthday . |
| 13 | It could equally be achieved by attaching pig units to supermarkets to harvest the foods that have passed their sell-by date . |
| 14 | The MPIs too could benefit from closer contacts with universities : older members who have passed their first flush of creativity would have the opportunity to refresh themselves by teaching , at the same time attracting new young people . |
| 15 | A RECORD number of schoolchildren will today be told they have passed their GCSE exams . |
| 16 | These promotional tools can be extremely useful to the discerning PRO , particularly for products and services which have passed their first peak of interest . |
| 17 | For the manual working class the pattern of mobility has had a double-edged effect , on the one hand increasing the possibility of ‘ social advancement ’ ( although this remains slim for men who have passed their mid-20s ) , while on the other reducing the influx of people from other backgrounds . |
| 18 | At present there are people who choose to display a green learner plate for a period of time after they have passed their test , but this is only optional and may lead to other coloured learner plates being sold which then may not be taken seriously . |
| 19 | May we have a debate on junk mail as soon as possible , to discuss a mailshot sent to many of my constituents by an organisation that is partly funded by Maxwell money which is so full of falsehoods that it would make the average time-share salesman blush ; which redefines the term ’ junk mail ’ and peddles dodgy , old-fashioned and out-of-date remedies which have been banned in most countries and which have passed their sell-by date ; and which bears the signature of an obscure Welsh politician , best known for losing his rag with Zimbabwean soldiers and for nutting people in public lavatories ? |