Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experts got their calculations wrong and the daily influx into London is vastly greater at the end than the start of the eighties , or any prediction forecast . |
| 2 | The Profitboss trusts the experts to lend their expertise to help him reach his profit-making goals . |
| 3 | But it is up front where the experts ply their trade and both Ian Wright and Les Ferdinand are bouncing with confidence . |
| 4 | After Adelaide , Bodyline was not exploited with quite the same intensity , but the crowds retained their fury at the mere sight of a ‘ bumper ’ . |
| 5 | The muffled men with the lanterns lighted their way into the house up a vast perron , where once guests had sat in the sun before luncheon , and on into the hall , music belching into its emptiness . |
| 6 | Energetic international regulation of banking and tax laws , making it impossible for the mafiosi to launder their ill-gotten gains , would quickly destroy the Mafia and with it the myth of an irrepressible global conspiracy . |
| 7 | ‘ They get an allowance until the riggers bring their cycle back again . |
| 8 | The tournament gets the club 's 40th anniversary celebrations off to a flying start and , with the season just a week away , represents the last chance for the clubs to test their form . |
| 9 | The clubs have their own singles , doubles and knockout competitions after which tournaments are held at regional , national and international level . |
| 10 | Here is a list of some of the galleries showcasing their own artists in permanent or rotating exhibitions ( be sure to check before going to note galleries ' often reduced summer hours ) : Beitzel , Blum Helman Warehouse , Brown , Fischbach , Gagosian , Gladstone , Goodman , Gorney , Graham Modern , Hirschl & Adler , Knoedler , Louver , Curt Marcus , Barbara Mathes , McKee , Metro Pictures , Midtown-Payson , Victoria Munroe , Pace , P.P.O.W. , Protech , Solomon , Sperone Westwater , Tatischeff , Thorp , Barbara Toll and Germans van Eck . |
| 11 | The Court of Session heard that the original plan had been for the Deanses to use their 57 per cent shareholding to remove four directors — Wilson Young , James Johnston , Alastair McKenzie and Clive Scott . |
| 12 | The scouts flourished their red blankets to announce General Howard 's approach several days later . |
| 13 | It is only when one has haunted the markets of France and the food shops in the country towns and villages , watched the housewives doing their shopping , listened to them discussing their purchases at the pâtisseries and the charcuteries that one realizes how much less they are tied to their kitchens than we had always been led to suppose . |
| 14 | This was the heroic age of the Italian cities , the period when small cities flourished as much as large , before the giants eclipsed their neighbours . |
| 15 | The giants washed their breakfasts down with immense tankards of mead and ale and grunted and were inclined to be morose , which seemed to bear out Caspar 's remarks about them not being morning people . |
| 16 | At Trafalgar 's agm though , the shareholders had their turn . |
| 17 | Edward reportedly surrendered and abdicated , whereupon the estates renounced their homage to him and then returned to inform parliament . |
| 18 | If , however , the phenylene rings are para-oriented , the chains retain their axial symmetry and can crystallize more readily . |
| 19 | In some areas the surveyors coloured their maps to depict the boundaries of the various rock formations observed , but the geology thus shown was of a very general nature . |
| 20 | In a few days The Shamen take their millennial grooves and positive paganism to Salt Lake City . |
| 21 | A few of the mounts shifted their feet ; here and there a rider slid his sword back and forth in its scabbard . |
| 22 | The examples given of settlements in Canada , Australia and New Zealand demonstrate the influence of a few of the colonisers who went out from Ayrshire and give an indication of the varied circumstances and locations in which the emigrants started their new lives . |
| 23 | It is intriguing to wonder how some of the emigrants found their way to the outlandish places in which they settled , or how Ayrshire names came to be given to spots which are amongst the most isolated on earth . |
| 24 | The emigrants dissolve their pasts in labour , |
| 25 | This collection has been brought together at a time when the Banjara people are gravitating towards the cities relinquishing their nomadic life and abandoning their dynamic textile art . |
| 26 | During this time the cities governed their own affairs and many of the larger towns became prosperous under the leadership of Burgomeisters elected from the mercantile classes and other wealthy citizens . |
| 27 | We discovered last month that one of the major challenges of keeping a marine aquarium is choosing fish which will live in harmony together and , where applicable those which will be compatible with the invertebrates sharing their aquarium . |
| 28 | And only then , at long last , when almost everything was gone , did the terrible rain relent just enough for the ramparts to stop their melting . |
| 29 | But Stewart was in much better form — and scored the winner — as the Merseysiders launched their title drive with a 2-1 victory over Sheffield United on Wednesday . |
| 30 | Many cases could be settled far quicker , and probably far cheaper , if an early Williamson Tender had forced the defenders to consider their respective positions rather earlier in a case . |