Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professional development teachers rarely seemed to have been offered an induction programme or had their work regularly reviewed . |
| 2 | Another pointer in favour of Wimbledon and West Ham was that the clubs had already taken action or announced their intention to take action against certain players involved in the incident . |
| 3 | And they got their wish — one goal against Sweden in a 2-1 defeat that ended their Championship . |
| 4 | And it was the home side that opened their account first , through Paul Kitson . |
| 5 | He has spoken up for them when their homes have been threatened with closure and voiced their opinions on Radio Cleveland . |
| 6 | He and Cranston were still arguing rival theories when they reached Aldgate long after dark and made their way through a small postern door in the city gate . |
| 7 | Some licensees have seen catering as a profitable sideline and invested their own cash and other resources into developing it , while others have either not been interested or have lacked the capital to do so , and have accordingly only provided minimum facilities . |
| 8 | The adjutant drone Rogers 's car and got their before anyone . |
| 9 | This change can clearly be related to the country 's net increase of average real income and the emergence of a clear majority of households which owned a car and owned their house ( Table 3.4 ) . |
| 10 | Two uniformed policemen got out of the Panda car and joined their boss . |
| 11 | They followed the coffin on to the boat and took their seats in the front row . |
| 12 | Their very presence , however , unsettled the enemy and forced their commanders to detach valuable troops to round up the raiding parties . |
| 13 | Riven 's group cut and slashed their way to the river without respite . |
| 14 | So they followed their cousins in the car industry and made their buildings with built-in obsolescence . |
| 15 | They were able to pay to stay in a small chamber of the manor and bought their meals at the kitchen and buttery . |
| 16 | Some colonised the deep seas where there was little light and lost their eyes altogether . |
| 17 | He filled six key posts ( all of which were election-related ) , including that of Prime Minister , with non-party figures , an action which earned him warm acclaim from the main opposition parties both of which pledged full support for the new administration and ended their boycott of the National Assembly . |
| 18 | After this they went on board the several ships in that harbour and struck their yards in order to prevent them from proceeding to sea . |
| 19 | At precisely two thirty on that fateful Saturday , two sinewy dykes climbed into an old-fashioned rowing boat in a small Dublin harbour and began their arduous row towards the Forty Foot and victory . |
| 20 | They visited the chapel on the north side and said their final farewell to their parents . |
| 21 | They specialise in interesting shirts as well as underwear which started as an experiment but became their best selling items . |
| 22 | The thunderflash exploded with a stunning ferocity that shattered their jagged nerves and twisted their sagging faces with terror . |
| 23 | The expanding role of general practitioners , along with the 1990 contract , the establishment of family health services authorities , and the introduction of medical audit have increased accountability , but general practitioners have been demotivated by the imposition of a contract that increased their administrative burden without clear evidence of clinical benefit . |
| 24 | After the prayer that ended their silent repast that evening , the cadets were filing out of the refectory to return to their barren cells . |
| 25 | There should have been a lifespan of twenty years for H3 , but other priorities had been higher , and every four years since 1973 there had been a doctoring of the patient , a new lick of paint on the inside , an attempt to reinforce the roofing against damp , new wiring to carry the power of the computer that ran their lives . |
| 26 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 27 | Despite the total chaos that followed their introduction there was a conspicuous lack of corpses . |
| 28 | Moments later , their clothes in a trail that echoed their urgency , they lay in each other 's arms on Rachel 's bed . |
| 29 | In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands . |
| 30 | The couple composed their own personal vows and chose songs and poetry that symbolised their commitment to each other . |