Example sentences of "their [noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 2 | Only 18 to 25 per cent of the survey sample relied on or had their income topped up by the then supplementary benefit . |
| 3 | The drapes were drawn over all the windows , the enormous marble-topped table that dominated the room lit by overhead lamps , the wash of their light thrown up on the six members , two of them women , sitting around it . |
| 4 | Unfortunately two anglers now had all their gear spread out amongst the greenery . |
| 5 | I feel that the PR team have their work cut out at the best of times without the likes of Mr. Wigmore and his cheap , sensationalist style of so-called journalism . |
| 6 | Many of the cahiers ( the statements of grievances and proposals for their rectification drawn up for the guidance of the States-General when it met in May 1789 ) proposed the building of public monuments to Louis XVI in recognition of his action in calling the States-General and thus restoring the ‘ liberties ’ of his people . |
| 7 | This is why comic picture-postcards of the time show people at the seaside , paddling in the sea with their trouser-legs rolled up to the knee , or little girls with their dresses tucked into their knickers . |
| 8 | Most important of all , back on the pitch I learnt which customers did n't pay their debts and so could never be allowed to have their names chalked up on the slate . |
| 9 | During January it also became clear that both Buchanan and , more especially , David Duke — the third Republican candidate and a former Ku Klux Klan leader — faced increasing difficulties in getting their names entered on to the Republican ballot papers in many states . |
| 10 | Perhaps only a minority would like to see their island taken over by the Miami exiles . |
| 11 | The General Household Survey is a national representative continuous survey of UK households and their members carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) . |
| 12 | I keep coming across internal memoranda about which offices are to have their heating turned off during the morning and which during the afternoon . |
| 13 | I 'm even more disappointed in the conservatives , for not opposing it , I do n't object to their list of members being published , I do n't see that that would do any harm , as far as I 'm concerned , every employee could have their wages printed up on the wall . |
| 14 | Here lies the greatest pleasure of greenhouse gardening , since there is little to equal the satisfaction of raising most of your own plants from seeds and cuttings , watching them grow and develop until they fulfil their potential planted out in the garden . |
| 15 | Britishers , de Kruif told Lewis , did not get their science and their dollars mixed up to the same extent as Americans . |
| 16 | ESTATE agents valuing every house in Britain for the new council tax have had many of their estimates thrown out by the Inland Revenue . |
| 17 | Armoured Hearthwares with red sashes belting their middles laboured on to the battlements with the defender 's weapons pounding them like smith 's hammers on an anvil . |
| 18 | The staff , all from the Burscough-based Westbrook Packaging firm , had seen their company taken over by the French-owned Seyfert Packaging Group and decided it was time to learn the language . |
| 19 | Regions in which the density was slightly higher than average would have had their expansion slowed down by the gravitational attraction of the extra mass . |
| 20 | Gourlay and Australian pair Ian Schuback ( the defending champion ) and Commonwealth gold medallist Rob Parrella saw their bowls thrown out of the championship when they failed to pass the compulsory green test . |
| 21 | Similarly , databases offered by the current crop of object firms like Versant , Objectivity and Servio Logic , could easily have their market chewed up by the mainstream relational players like Sybase , Ingres and Oracle , which nearly every day are claiming more and more functionality for their products , like inheritance , C++ and objects . |