Example sentences of "it was their " in BNC.
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| 31 | The children learned from the example of adults that it was their supreme duty to protect the Royal Family from the degradation of other people 's curiosity . |
| 32 | It was their tree ; although distant from Nana 's house , it was one of several passed down as part of the family 's inheritance . |
| 33 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 34 | It was their behaviour that defined them as nice or nasty , as forgiving or unforgiving , envious or the reverse . |
| 35 | Although it seems pointless to reiterate the immense journalistic gaffs that screamed from most music papers ( Smiths tour dates etc ) it was their beloved NME who broke the official story first . |
| 36 | It was their problem , I thought , and they could do what they liked . |
| 37 | While they had shared championship success when they had first met , after a split of four years it was their second era together that brought the ultimate honour for them both — the 1987 Open Championship title . |
| 38 | On one occasion , the RUC stopped a bus containing members of a Protestant apprentice boys band , 30 miles from the largely Catholic town where it was their intention to march . |
| 39 | Surfing was all the Hawaiians had left : it was their last living link with the past . |
| 40 | More than that , it was the Hawaiians ' way of retaining a sense of dignity and worth , it was their way of staying alive . |
| 41 | It was their own form-master Sam Sylvester who got them into the trouble in the first place . |
| 42 | It was their job to collect the fish that their menfolk landed and to bargain with the ’ jowters ’ who bought the fish . |
| 43 | However , some of the Holkham tenants , almost in reaction to their landlord 's introduction of the alien West Country breed , decided to combine their native Norfolk and Suffolk types as being more suitable to the region and it was their efforts which , by 1810 , produced by the first selectively bred combinations of the horned Norfolk meat types and the polled dairy Suffolk in the Norfolk and Suffolk Poll . |
| 44 | It was their means of controlling my behaviour and getting me to do exactly what they wanted . |
| 45 | It was their grape leaf wine that helped the Skye section of this book . |
| 46 | They had so much to tell each other ; it was their day . |
| 47 | For many it was their first introduction to a New Age in which the governments and countries would fall or be changed , society and the family would expire and a new order would rise up out of the ashes of old values and beliefs . |
| 48 | While Billy was at the bar ordering another round , Yanto told the girls about the motorbike and explained that it was their first outing on the machine . |
| 49 | Last month 's record-breaking talks between OPEC members ( it was their longest meeting ) did not increase the amount of recoverable oil in the world , all it did was lower costs about $30 a barrel . |
| 50 | The survival of ancient sites depended on the whim of their owners , and often it was their own ‘ weight and worthlessness ’ that was their best protection . |
| 51 | Indeed it was their attempts to comprehend the formalism in terms of individual behaviour that led to some of the fathers of quantum theory , such as Erwin Schrödinger , Louis de Broglie and Einstein , to express strong doubts about the ultimate validity of the theory . |
| 52 | It was their idea to miniaturise , to reduce the scale of nature so that it could be contemplated in the sweep of an eye . |
| 53 | On the shelves there were fish swimming in the air as if it was their natural habitat . |
| 54 | ‘ — as if it was their natural habitat . |
| 55 | Thus labelled , it relinquished the parents of their last shred of moral obligation to their son ; even managed to convince them that in the end none of it was their fault . |
| 56 | It was their home until the last Baronet died in 1938 . |
| 57 | It was their equivalent of the Piper Malibu , but entirely constructed of composites . |
| 58 | It was their bounden duty , he said , to keep an account of their incomings and outgoings in money matters . |
| 59 | Others were in lidded baskets until it was their turn ; more tied in sacks ; a few buttoned into deep pockets . |
| 60 | One evening in August — it was their fourth night in a row ; her blood kept flowing that month — he turned to her and saw an expression on her face that he did n't recognise . |