Example sentences of "[verb] built their " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recall how he used to tell the story of the three pigs : when the wolf ate the pigs who 'd built their houses of straw and twigs , my father would gather me up and rub his bristly face against mine , saying , ‘ Gnaggle , gnaggle , gnaggle . ’ |
| 2 | Already they 'd built their nests ; even would have laid eggs , said Stan . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ While Britain will enter the 21st century on the back of a 19th century railway system our French partners , who started at the same time , will have built their modern system ready for the opening of the Channel Tunnel , 10 years ahead of Britain . ’ |
| 4 | Having built their cult reputation four years back on a rib-tickling broadside against bar-room self-aggrandisement called ‘ Preposterous Tales In The Life Of Ken McKenzie ’ and the hilariously deadpan ‘ Three English Football Grounds ’ , this South London duo now augment their tinny beatbox-plus-guitar formula with throbbing keyboard moodscapes as in current single ‘ We Stand Around ’ , the most unnerving paean to soccer obsessives ever recorded . |
| 5 | But the people who built them — the thirty or forty people possibly at the most in Oxford who built those houses — it would solve their problems and it would give them a completely new slant on life to have built their own houses . |
| 6 | Since then they 've built their own homes out of the earth … and Oxfam has put in a desperately needed water supply . |
| 7 | For some the solar challenge is a flat out race … for others it 's a a journey of discovery … take the team of schoolgirls from Adelaide … they 've built their car in class and have just passed their driving tests one of the girls says … she 's learnt lots and lots about the car and she did n't realise it was such a big event |
| 8 | then there 's Steve Bennett and his dad from Ross on Wye who 've built their own car … |
| 9 | The men from Big Blue originally came to Microsoft 's founder , Bill Gates , to license the programming languages that he had written for the early personal-computer enthusiasts , most of whom had built their own machines . |
| 10 | In 1899 , when the New York , New Haven , and Hartford Company had built their magnificent new station at Providence , Rhode Island , they had planned it without a train-shed . |
| 11 | Two of them had built their own homes . |
| 12 | Here the Dwarfs of antiquity had built their gate , once a vast and impregnable fortress but now little more than a pile of stone through which the road still led . |
| 13 | They had built their usual untidy nests less than a metre apart on the steep ledges , and now in August each nest held a large , fluffy young gannet . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most crucial point of these arguments from the point of view of positivist criminologists , however , was that these very human processes that define and enforce crimes produce the criminals and data on which positivists had built their theories . |
| 15 | Birds had built their nests and raised their young in the once ordered kitchens . |
| 16 | In both Alcoa and United Shoe the courts acknowledged that the defendants had built their market shares by legal means , but none the less found them guilty because their respective dominant positions were due to conscious choice . |
| 17 | The chamber was almost as large as the cavern above in which the Germans had built their base . |
| 18 | San Diego have built their success on a dominating defense , a good running game and a sound season from quarterback Stan Humphries , signed from the Washington Redskins at the start of the season to replace injured John Friesz . |
| 19 | It is a profound challenge to those who have built their careers by rising through the ranks of the command organisation . ’ |
| 20 | Ms Dimpfel says almost all the major hardware manufacturers are getting copies of the beta Workplace OS and that IBM is garnering a lot of interest from those that have built their businesses on proprietary , vertical-market operating systems and are interested in putting them up as personalities on a microkernel — such as Workplace OS — that could gain wide industry support . |
| 21 | At a rather more humble level of philosophical sophistication , sociologists of crime and deviance have built their theories on similar suppositions . |
| 22 | Ms Dimpfel says almost all the major hardware manufacturers are getting copies of the beta Workplace OS and that IBM is garnering a lot of interest from those that have built their businesses on proprietary , vertical-market operating systems and are interested in putting them up as personalities on a microkernel — such as Workplace OS — that could gain wide industry support . |
| 23 | Now those companies that have built their own operating system ( and around 60% or more do in the real-time area ) can retain their investment and buy into the new operating system as the company reckons it can emulate any existing operating system . |
| 24 | Lotus and WordPerfect have built their empires on DOS products — one with the top selling spreadsheet , 1-2-3 , the other with one of the best DOS word processors , WordPerfect 5.1 . |
| 25 | Not just use but have have built their their whole company I T strategy around . |