Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] their [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people cared deeply about the success of the venture because they cared about their own livelihoods , the future of their children and the very breath of their dying community . |
| 2 | Gagarin , in 1721 ) , the tsar 's ‘ Siberian satraps ’ enjoyed almost plenipotentiary powers in what they regarded as their own freedom , which they exercised with all the arbitrary and unbridled ruthlessness of a military dictatorship and the methods of a police state . |
| 3 | But if you did n't have an A licence , most firms that had got their own vehicles could get a C licence which allowed them to keep th take their own goods in er er that they used for their own practices to wherever they were going to but did n't y allow you to take anybody else 's . |
| 4 | Elizabeth and Helen moved into their own basement flat in an inner-city suburb in 1987. they are middle-aged and spent nearly thirty years together at the same mental handicap hospital but lived separately for the two years before the move into the community because Helen was transferred to a smaller institution . |
| 5 | But it was pointless trying to compare or liken these mountains to others , they had individual stature and grace , they rose with their own majesty from valleys I could only dream about . |
| 6 | They had not realized that Dr Dunstaple had the support of the Royal College of Physicians … and felt distinctly aggrieved that they had not been told that such an august body disagreed with their own man . |
| 7 | If they moved within their own country , this raised no novel problems of technique . |
| 8 | At the entrance to the laboratory complex the others drew on their own masks . |
| 9 | They based almost all their work on anthropological techniques , but they were interested in the wide variety of life styles that they found on their own doorsteps in Chicago , not in simple societies . |
| 10 | Such basic matters as what people believed about their own bodies — made up of humours — or their pasts are juxtaposed with fascinating excursions into such areas of belief as the fairies and mythical beasts . |
| 11 | Nicholas received them all himself , saying that ‘ It might be hoped that they came for their own good or his own , for he lived to make himself or others better . ’ |
| 12 | The exclusion on the grounds of race of a people who laid as much emphasis on their own ethnic origins as did the Japanese , and who implicitly believed in their own superiority , appeared an unpardonable insult . |
| 13 | Such generosity of spirit , added to their many talents , made the Fawcett family the most popular in Baldersdale . |
| 14 | This does not preclude the possibility that the Woodvilles turned against their former ally in 1483 and cynically excluded Gloucester from the protectorship in order to secure more power for themselves . |
| 15 | This does not preclude the possibility that the Woodvilles turned against their former ally in 1483 and cynically excluded Gloucester from the protectorship in order to secure more power for themselves . |
| 16 | Chelsea midfielder Dennis Wise sprinted to his defence last night and turned against their own supporters after a couple of them had complained to police that the United boss had sworn and made a V-sign . |
| 17 | The time is fast approaching when a more accurate division of mankind will be between those who are patients , knowing despair as well as they know the lines grooved into their own hands , and those who are psychiatrists , so helplessly and irrecoverably sick that they believe that , serenity can be achieved by swallowing a few polychromatic biochemicals ! |
| 18 | During the last half of 1960 , the Soviet leaders — perhaps conscious of having over-reached themselves in political terms , retreated from their former position as staunch defenders of the Cuban revolution , and adopted a far more equivocal tone . |
| 19 | Twenty four parents were living with partners , six were single parents , and the remainder lived with their own parents . |
| 20 | The Wilcoxon paired signed rank test or sign test was used when the animals served as their own controls . |
| 21 | They linked widely diverse groups into a network , joined communities facing common problems , educated local leaders , and served as their own spark to fan social change . |
| 22 | Though this salary was the same as that of a third-class constable , the lowest police rank , village sergeants were much better off because they served in their own localities , were not subject to discipline , and had other income . |
| 23 | After the whambamthankyouma'am of the sixties , the seventies barely existed in their own right , but were more a kind of dream time when no one wanted to admit the good times had gone , or indeed had never really been . |
| 24 | CLASS managing director and computer software expert David Jones claims the cattle videoed in their own environment look and feel their best . |
| 25 | County , penned in their own half for long periods , were unable to manage more than two genuine scoring attempts in the whole match . |
| 26 | Northampton managed only one try , a push-over by Shelford with the advantage of a strong breeze , and spent almost the entire second half penned in their own half . |
| 27 | The adjustment was made more difficult by the fact that Vietnam also became part of Cold War tensions : the Chinese Communists , who triumphed in their own country in 1949 , gave aid to Ho Chi Minh , and the following year the Americans extended aid to the French . |
| 28 | In the main they relied upon their own convictions and inspirations and on secondary sources of various kinds . |
| 29 | Likewise , leasing companies were unlikely to be able to retain more than one third of the aircraft they ordered on their own balance sheets . |
| 30 | However , now that they had family responsibilities and were beginning to put down roots , they returned to their former church-going . |