Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way to compare them is to calculate what they would be paying over the whole 25 years if neither of them moved from their present home . |
| 2 | They have thousands of tons of them stockpiled on their western front . |
| 3 | Though I agreed with their political views , I could not condone the way they acted and was glad to see them go at last . |
| 4 | As I noted in their recent Erato version of the Concerto , the Suisse Romande Orchestra is ‘ in very much better shape that it was in the 1950s and 1960s , and this new account supersedes earlier recommendations ’ . |
| 5 | I commented on their apparent demise to a fellow visitor . |
| 6 | I was aware how much I owed to their unobtrusive help ; several of them were my friends . |
| 7 | Most people I questioned about their favourite comfort foods named liquid foods frequently , hot dishes more often than cold and savoury tastes , surprisingly , seemed more favoured than sweet . |
| 8 | Although I am down , I still have my pride and dignity and so I thought it only right that I should remove all the silverware I had brought to the club from the trophy cabinet : my cycling proficiency medal , the Mitchley Majorettes runners-up trophy I nicked from their carnival float , my Winston Churchill commemorative coin and the photograph of Michel Platini and myself talking football outside Broadcasting House whilst both waiting to secure Bruce Forsyth 's autograph . |
| 9 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
| 10 | In my diary I recognised it almost from the beginning , probably because I made no connection between it and non-eating , but seemed to have ascribed it to being overworked academically or being hounded into sporting activities which I resented for their profound pointlessness . |
| 11 | Then she dashed into their 18-month-old son 's bedroom . |
| 12 | But he did not feel that she looked upon their amorous exchanges as more than innocent dalliance . |
| 13 | When she risked a glance at him his gaze held that patrician mockery , the scathing expression she remembered from their first meeting . |
| 14 | She wanted him to take her in his arms and make her feel once more the strong , swift surge of desire that she remembered from their one night together . |
| 15 | The ‘ Do you remember when ? ’ stories can be so important in getting to know the person who has died , in hearing about how he or she appeared to their surviving family and friends . |
| 16 | She knew as little about him now , his parents , his life , as she had at their first meeting . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're naturally very upset , ’ she said at their converted barn home in Hawkhurst , Kent . |
| 18 | She said at their Welsh home : ‘ He 's a tough lad . |
| 19 | How she worked this out was a mystery to Henry , since her mother 's role in Elinor 's life was confined to twice-yearly visits in which she sat in their front room and listened to Elinor telling her how awful Henry was . |
| 20 | The clue we recovered from their dead letterbox , however , only served to confuse us further . |
| 21 | ‘ As a Third World women 's co-op we fitted into their alternative trading . |
| 22 | Since Everest he has concentrated on small , alpine style trips , climbing Rimo II in 1988 with Nick Kekus , and Makalu II with Victor Saunders in 1989 , although they failed in their main objective of traversing Makalu . |
| 23 | As they clung to their one point lead , they tackled ferociously , but one marginal infringement cost the game . |
| 24 | As they clung to their one point lead , they tackled ferociously , but one marginal infringement cost the game . |
| 25 | It seems likely they met in their respective offices or possibly at the Salisbury Club which was a new , but important , social and business focus in the town . |
| 26 | ‘ His victims genuinely believed he could obtain goods at cheaper prices than they got from their usual outlets . |
| 27 | To tell these in their own right and expect them to retain the charm they got from their larger setting would be a terrible error , an error to which Tolkien would be more sensitive than any man alive . |
| 28 | Well , the answer is , giraffes tried to eat food on higher branches of trees , strained upwards , and as they strained they stretched their necks and they passed on their stretched necks to their , to their descendants . |
| 29 | Fatness may indicate avoiding the deprivation they experienced in their own childhood . |
| 30 | They sold off their small tools division where we sold some bearings to them . |