Example sentences of "and the [noun pl] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Fogerty , who was in charge of the infants ' class , added her own warnings when she regained the classroom , and the infants approached their morning 's labours in a suitably sober mood . |
| 2 | If the French and the Germans have their way then it wo n't just be the single market that comes into force on January 1 , 1993 ; it will be political union too . |
| 3 | On the east , an open stream ran down the Steine to the sea , an area where the fishermen dried their nets and the inhabitants dumped their refuse ; it was near the outlet that Russell built his house , now the site of the Albion Hotel . |
| 4 | When he failed , he returned and the youths repeated their attacks , battering the woman , not named by police , with clubs and sticks . |
| 5 | The results were announced at a special awards luncheon at The Savoy and the girls received their trophy in front of an audience of top chefs and leading personalities in the catering industry . |
| 6 | He also had a small stable of girls working the docks , specializing in the new boats to put into harbour , and the girls had their instructions to discover details of the shipment … and there was always a bonus if they discovered an interesting cargo . |
| 7 | Employees have been given the time and the skills to match their responsibilities . |
| 8 | The drums suddenly paused and the columns shouted their great war cry . |
| 9 | This tension between locally-based life and nationally or internationally based markets and governments leads to what Giddens calls ‘ ontological insecurity ’ , a condition in which people have a limited understanding and control over their circumstances and the processes affecting their daily lives . |
| 10 | From a musical box in the base issued a thin , clear parody of last night 's music and the monkeys tapped their feet . |
| 11 | WHAT DO you do with a pop group who spend the weeks writing songs with as much soul-searching gravitas as ‘ Two Worlds Collide ’ , and the weekends getting their bollocks out ? |
| 12 | Think about the neatly kept front gardens and the commuters clacking their way back in the twilight towards the carefully assembled innocence of home . |
| 13 | The number of Conservative MPs in Scotland was reduced from 21 to 10 , and the Conservatives lost their last seats in Newcastle upon Tyne , Bradford , Manchester and Leicester . |
| 14 | as if by retribution , the sick electrician made a remarkable recovery and the pumps resumed their efficient , reliable operation . |
| 15 | The great landowners , such as the Bedfords , Derbys and Sutherlands kept their high position in the realms of the landed rich , despite the decline of inter-war agriculture , and the Rothschilds and the Sterns consolidated their financial position through their work in the City of London . |
| 16 | But by August 1897 they had still only paid £100 , and the teachers lost their travelling privileges . |
| 17 | All the main parties except the communist Party of the Left and the Greens expressed their support for the move . |
| 18 | In the Neuchâtel elections on April 9 Green groups won seven grand council seats from the coalition parties , while in Solothurn on April 30 the Car Party entered the grand council with seven seats and the Greens increased their representation from four in 1985 to nine . |
| 19 | The result was the same — the farmers lost their always precarious crops of maize , and the herdsmen saw their cattle die in their thousands . |
| 20 | From these , both males and females emerge ; they mate and the females lay their eggs in English oaks , and the two-generation cycle begins again . |
| 21 | They found the windows of their rooms frozen so hard they could not close them , and the players took their pre-match sleep with snow on the bedroom floor . |
| 22 | how people learn about these constituents of words and the rules governing their combination , and |
| 23 | This would need to look at why we have a welfare service of ‘ being in care ’ , how this has developed historically , what routes are taken by children coming into care and the circumstances surrounding their entry . |
| 24 | because er train trains them the girls and the boys to turn their toes out , which is what we require in our society I believe . |
| 25 | The boys of Standard Seven did quite a clever act — there was a screen across the stage on which music had been painted — the notes were holes in the screen and the boys had their heads through these whilst in their mouths were small bazookas — small sound instruments . |
| 26 | ‘ It gets a bit rough round here from time to time , there 's a power station out past the ridge and the boys do their drinking here , but mostly we 're pretty friendly . ’ |
| 27 | Harvey stood there grinning and flushed and the waiter stepped forward with another great silver tray with just two drinks on it , and some wag took down a piece of greenery and formed it into a crown and the soldiers drew their swords and provided an arch under which Harvey walked . |
| 28 | The PCP fell from 34 at dissolution ( 38 in the 1986 elections ) to 10 seats , and the Liberals retained their one seat . |
| 29 | The wind whipped at their cloaks and the horses kept their eyes half shut against it . |
| 30 | Here the nomads water their flocks and the horses drink their fill when the tourists have dismounted . |