Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody asked to see their passports and they were airborne half an hour later , on their way to Keflavik on the western side of Iceland , where they landed seven hours later . |
| 2 | On the same day the Soviet Union and Hungary agreed to conduct their bilateral trade in hard currency from 1991 onwards , replacing previous barter arrangements . |
| 3 | The move comes after nearly one in four of BR 's routes failed to hit their performance targets under John Major 's new Citizen 's Charter . |
| 4 | The chartbustin' all-girl band planned to invest their pop earnings in a beauty salon . |
| 5 | In the event , Palmerston and Russell agreed to sink their differences and with a united opposition the Conservatives ' days were numbered . |
| 6 | They held up posters rejecting the idea that their fathers were anything like the Gestapo , and calling for ‘ full social security ’ for Stasi officers expected to lose their posts in the process of trimming the service . |
| 7 | For 20 minutes the death squad blazed away , but most of the bullets failed to penetrate their victims ' heavy vests of jewels and medals . |
| 8 | In his day Wilson was very conscious of some of the injustices from which the weavers suffered , and through his pen he sought to champion their cause . |
| 9 | Their officers might experience at times a tension between enjoyment of these qualities and impatience at their collective uncooperativeness , but few of them seem to have become so downhearted that they ceased to enjoy their work . |
| 10 | A preliminary hearing in Birmingham yesterday rejected a company claim that the four failed to lodge their case within the required three-month period . |
| 11 | And I think that was on the basis that we were insisting that everybody visited the local F E college or you know sort of Yorkshire , Scarborough , Harrogate got got their irregular updatings and S and Selby when whatever . |
| 12 | During the days , the various sections met to conduct their own meetings , hearing papers from both eminent and unknown men of science . |
| 13 | That the UFC so clearly mistrusted publication data has been discussed earlier , but they failed to support their preferred method of assessment — peer review — with any objective measures or guidelines . |
| 14 | He was one of seven MPs who agreed to lose their moustaches or beards in a ‘ shave-athon ’ to raise funds for research into leukaemia among children . |
| 15 | Mr Banham warned an Association of Metropolitan Authorities conference in London yesterday : ‘ There may well be half a million furious business people , either with severely disappointed expectations because they expected to see their rate bills cut by half , or facing a succession of real increases of 20 per cent in their annual rates bills . |
| 16 | Although well able to acclimatise to most aquarium conditions most Rasboras will reward any efforts made to accommodate their particular requirements . |
| 17 | He studied the adaptations which adult Jamaicans made to accommodate their speech to LE — the reverse of what happens when young Black speakers of LE try to adapt their speech to the patterns of JC . |
| 18 | They agreed to continue their efforts to improve their social life and to discuss openly any disagreements or suspicions which cropped up . |
| 19 | In the event , the Portuguese accepted a compromise whereby both sides pledged their commitment to human rights and fundamental freedoms and " agreed to continue their dialogue and co-operation on these issues " . |
| 20 | Both Japan and Germany agreed to increase their financial assistance to help defray the costs of the Gulf war . |
| 21 | ( In fact , following the abortive takeover , GEC and Plessey announced in 1987 the formation of a joint company : GEC Plessey Telecommunications ( GPT ) to develop System X. ) The fear was that if the two companies , both minnows in the international market ( refer to Table 2.1 ) failed to pool their resources they would sink further down the list of world telecommunications manufacturers . |
| 22 | Results proved just as accurate — and more fun — with girls asked to smell their boyfriends ' bodies . |
| 23 | The strike ended after 10 hours when Walesa agreed to meet their delegation . |
| 24 | The dogs , who had sustained monotonous barking at Leon Kennedy since he entered , now submitted to aloof ecstasy as he kneeled to massage their ears . |
| 25 | When the EC heads of state and government met in Lisbon on June 26-27 they sought to minimize their differences and maintain momentum towards European integration . |
| 26 | Other life insurers sought to increase their distribution networks , either increasing their branches or their personnel in a variety of ways in order to market their products in increasingly competitive environments . |
| 27 | When they agreed to halve their poster advertising , they chose a base year when spending was unnaturally high due to a competition war . |
| 28 | By afternoon the Battle of the Marne was over , but the slow-moving Allies failed to consolidate their gains . |
| 29 | Although ‘ orthodox ’ theory disregards orthogenesis ( often confusing it with rectilinearity ) the existence of ‘ laws of growth ’ was recognised by Darwin , although he failed to synthesise their role in relation to the environment and vastly overemphasised the power and importance of natural selection . |
| 30 | Napoli failed to find their midweek scoring touch and went down 2-1 at home to an impressive Inter Milan in Channel 4 's latest afternoon offering . |