Example sentences of "[vb past] it their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lusignans called it their own royal chapel . |
| 2 | Right-wing members of the Labour government like Roy Hattersley and Shirley Williams felt it their duty to show solidarity with the pickets . |
| 3 | Urged by Elaine Blond to respond on behalf of the Movement , Sigmund Gestetner , whose name was well regarded in orthodox circles , wrote to the Jewish Chronicle to deny the charges while offering gratitude to ‘ those true Christians who felt it their duty to save these persecuted Jewish children ’ . |
| 4 | Artists and intellectuals , both prominent figures and less familiar faces , felt it their duty to partake in the ‘ salvation of the nation ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ No , they felt it their duty to struggle on , ’ said Daisy , half to herself |
| 6 | As he took it their fingers met , invoking so vivid a memory of the few seconds she had spent in his arms that she jerked away , spilling coffee into the saucer . |
| 7 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 8 | Unlike the Greek historians , they made it their business as patriots to present a comprehensive survey of their country 's past . |
| 9 | The French quickly took the town of Killala and made it their headquarters . |
| 10 | Most people in the district made it their business to find out all about newcomers , who were kept under fairly strict scrutiny before they became accepted . |
| 11 | One or two of my friends made it their business to send me the cutting from the Paternoster Review . |
| 12 | The wretched state to which the company has been brought is nevertheless a tragedy , a tragedy for all the towns in America and across the world where IBM was until recently the biggest employer , a tragedy for all its surviving employees , who now have to operate in an environment pervaded with gloom and a sense of failure , a tragedy for all the data processing managers that made it their business to know all that could be known about the company and its products and culture , who now find their hard-earned knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset . |
| 13 | No wonder the Twelve made it their priority , and the nameless missionaries of 8:4 took it as their great weapon . |
| 14 | Abbey National rose 14p to 365p as brokers made it their favourite for a bid from Lloyds Bank . |
| 15 | It was widely recognised as an important landmark and NME readers voted it their fourth best album of 1987 . |
| 16 | I I did it their way |
| 17 | IDENTICAL twins Gareth and Jonathan Boreland did it their way — and brilliantly — in the GCSE examinations . |
| 18 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
| 19 | They gave it their calendars it bolted their diaries |
| 20 | They gave it their sleep it gobbled their dreams |
| 21 | They gave it their photograph albums they gave it their records |
| 22 | They gave it their photograph albums they gave it their records |
| 23 | No I think just dedication and we , if we made an appearance maybe something would come to a head , things would get sorted , if we just said forget it then stay at home , then the quarry managers would say right forget it , we 'll get another workforce in , you know it was , I think it was just I think some were dedicated to the job and sort of gave it their best , whereas others were slightly you know , willy nilly about it and well I 'll turn up today cos it the weather looks nice , or I 'll turn up today because the wife is n't off and or the gas has run out or whatever . |
| 24 | One of the reasons why pressure from reform-minded people outside the ranks of the government intensified in 1858 derived from the fact that , up to a point , the authorities gave it their blessing . |
| 25 | With the outbreak of war the ILP put itself in opposition to the trade-union leaders by its refusal to support the war and by its criticism of those Labour Party members who either joined the government after 1916 or gave it their loyal parliamentary support . |
| 26 | And although they felt some roads would be too narrow , committee members on Thursday gave it their general support . |
| 27 | They stayed close to the Oaks , as if they considered it their duty , and they looked as if they might find life a serious business . |
| 28 | Most of the voluntary organisations considered it their duty to inculcate a proper sense of shame in their charges , until World War II brought about the first intimation that unmarried mothers were beginning to avoid the hostels run by charitable institutions for that very reason . |
| 29 | However , they considered it their duty to tell their clients , the second defendants , that they had them . |