Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The port principally connected with this was Bristol , and it may have been the existence of surplus tonnage that led its seamen to turn their attention to new ventures in the fifteenth century , including both attempts to penetrate the Mediterranean trade and the later voyages into the Atlantic . |
| 2 | Seeing no need why it alone should be expected to make up the deficit , it requested its allies to increase their defence expenditure . |
| 3 | " Sara is to be married to her cousin , Dom João , " she announced , and her piercing brown eyes scanned their faces to see their reaction . |
| 4 | As Prince and Starky told their followers to sell their lands and give them the money , in 1849 they were able to set up the Agapemone , the ‘ Abode of Love ’ , on land they had bought in the village of Spaxton , near Charlynch . |
| 5 | I advised his parents to make their son 's temper tantrums unrewarding ( indeed costly ) while at the same time making co-operative behaviour highly beneficial to him . |
| 6 | In 1973 Norman Macrae advised your readers to encourage their children to join medium-sized , rather than big companies , as the future of international business . |
| 7 | Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War . |
| 8 | How long had she and Jezrael observed their parents to forestall their anger ? |
| 9 | His great-nephew described how when at home on Sundays the Bishop would have twelve poor men and women to dine with him in his hall , ‘ always endeavouring while he fed their bodies to comfort their spirits by some cheerful discourse , generally mixt with some useful instruction . |
| 10 | And when supper was ready he bade his knights take their seats , and he took the leper by the hand , and seated him next himself , and ate with him out of the same dish . |
| 11 | He left the room , and she heard his shoes whisper their way down to Room C. |
| 12 | Many back-bench MPs , angered at the recent press coverage of Mr Clarke , strongly backed him and urged their colleagues to end their damaging off-the-record attacks . |
| 13 | Out of sight , the Nez Perces milled their ponies to confuse their trail , then doubled north once more , concealed by the timbered mountain slopes . |
| 14 | LIVERPOOL manager Graeme Souness last night urged his players to find their killer instinct and warned that the Kop would expect nothing less . |
| 15 | Queues formed hours before doors opened as parents took their children to see their 12-year-old hero in action . |
| 16 | The NUS persuaded its members to end their unlawful industrial action but the courts ‘ transferred ’ the sequestration to apply to a separate complaint by P & o that NUS workers were unlawfully picketing its premises . |
| 17 | These were home to founders of the Pilgrim Father Movement , which many years later saw its followers making their epic voyage to America aboard the Mayflower . |
| 18 | They way they wore their frocks reflected their personality . ’ |
| 19 | The good cut made his shoulders look their proper width and reduced his generally plump look . |
| 20 | Those without places hovered behind the chairs and kept moving round the room so that they could nip in when people left their places to collect their awards or for any other reason . |
| 21 | She was most welcoming and wanted their children to have their friends in , she was a neighbourly woman , but if those children were still what she called ‘ hanging around ’ by the time dinner was ready and she was held up in the business of getting the evening meal dealt with , it put her out . |
| 22 | A pair of University students passing by hastily averted their faces to hide their giggles . |
| 23 | Despite being barred Ríos Montt instructed his supporters to spoil their ballot papers and to vote for No-Venta candidates in the congressional and municipal elections . |