Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] their [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Franciscans had a specially charismatic gift for transmitting their understanding of the inward nature of redemption . |
| 2 | Oh , right from the beginning when we talk to citizens about using their friends of the theatre I nearly fell about you know |
| 3 | If this event is about affirming their status amongst the youthful pretenders to the acid crown , then Hawkwind and Planet Gong have loaded the dice in their favour by monopolising the prime-time slots . |
| 4 | Mr Parry was speaking with wife Wendy , 35 , at his side after seeing their son in the intensive care unit of the Walton centre for neurology and neurosurgery in Liverpool . |
| 5 | Two men posing as electricity board workmen escaped with £700 after tricking their way into the home of a 78-year-old woman at Greenside , near Gateshead . |
| 6 | Owen loved the bustle of the bazaars , of the whole native city , in fact ; but after you had spent some time in them , especially when it was as hot as this , you felt an overwhelming need for space and air , and after forcing their way through the blocked thoroughfares of the Tentmakers ' Bazaar they were glad to emerge into the more open streets . |
| 7 | Tapeworms are also members of the group , though they look very different for after burying their heads in the walls of their host 's gut , they bud off egg-bearing sections from their tail end . |
| 8 | During this time they absorbed the Chinese imperial system and Confucian philosophy , but after winning their freedom on the collapse of the Tang dynasty they flourished as an independent nation . |
| 9 | The aim of the study is to help a large civil engineering consultancy firm determine their longer term strategy for training their technicians in the use of computers as an aid to design . |
| 10 | They had exchanged the slow passage through the forest for picking their way over the rocks and boulders that littered the banks of the upper reaches of the river . |
| 11 | They 'll be stopping motorists in the hope of jogging their memories about the events of seven days ago . |
| 12 | Most problematic for the courts have been the cases involving flats given by local authorities to persons in the course of pursuing their duties under the Housing Acts towards homeless persons . |
| 13 | Although it is clear that Gascoigne is way beyond his peers in what is an era of ordinary players , Taylor 's predecessors — Don Revie , Ron Greenwood and Bobby Robson — all shunned the opportunity of building their teams around the most talented players at their disposal . |
| 14 | Having created their masterpiece , they 're hardly going to just sit on it ( and spin ) — putting it into the Public Domain is a very cost-effective method of bringing their work to the attention of leading software development houses ( Ashley Routledge and David Saunders of Poseidon and St Dragon fame started out this way ) . |
| 15 | Others seem increasingly to have thronged the court hoping to have a chance of pressing their suit upon the Queen or a courtier . |
| 16 | Farmers , generally speaking , like to grow crops and look after livestock rather than sell — and they prefer privacy ; but if they are to make a success of opening their farm to the public they need to be professional about it . |
| 17 | It is a well-established convention that a minister should be an MP or a peer ; the Ministers of the Crown Act , 1964 ( in limiting the number of ministers and parliamentary secretaries that can sit in the Commons ) forces the Prime Minister to select a nucleus of ministers from the Lords ; leading figures in the majority party practically demand a Cabinet place — and a ministry of their choice ; new young members need to be nurtured ; and even leaders of factions within the party might have to be given office if only in the hope of softening their opposition to the broad drift of government policy . |
| 18 | Thus alerted , a sub-committee of the North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association met on the following morning and resolved that the danger could only be met by " a central organization of owners for the purpose of protecting their interests against the unreasonable demands and actions of trade unions or combinations affecting such interests " . |
| 19 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 20 | The carriage window was quickly let down , and the Queen and Prince Consort … turned with smiling faces to the multitude who thought only of expressing their loyalty to the utmost . |
| 21 | The qualification " as it were " in ( 1 ) suggests Pemberton 's own inner voice ; " that he could n't find it " in ( 4 ) suggests the boy 's peremptory style of speech ; something really superior in the way of a resident tutor " ( 11 ) suggests the Moreens ' way of expressing their requirements in the style of genteel private advertisements . |
| 22 | The metaphysical poets of the 17th century were rarely interested in pastoral as a game and preferred to move on to a more realistic way of expressing their discontentment with the mercantile age they lived in . |
| 23 | Organisations of all kinds look to our sponsorship as a means of associating their name with enjoyment and a high standard of endeavour and of establishing their commitment to the activities of the broader community . |
| 24 | Organisations of all kinds look to sponsorship as a means of associating their name with enjoyment and excellence and of establishing their commitment to the activities of the broader community . |
| 25 | If they were children , they could be betrothed , but the Church insisted that they retained the right of refusing their consent to the marriage when they grew up . |
| 26 | Mr Patrick McIntyre , a South London publican and former New Scotland Yard detective who wrote a regular crime column for the South London Chronicle , was another who cast doubt on the Hooligan panic , accusing newspapers of being in their ‘ silly season ’ and of taking the matter up merely ‘ as a suitable and sensational means of filling their columns at the present moment ’ . |
| 27 | But developing countries with large supplies of natural gas have turned to direct reduction as a way of forcing their way into the steelmaking industry relatively cheaply . |
| 28 | They can therefore be visualized as potential cellular automata capable of imprinting their pattern on the surrounding body fluids . |
| 29 | On the other hand , they know that the price of preserving their communities in the way that they want will be too high for their own country to have to pay . |
| 30 | Some people in the liberal Free Democratic party , the junior partner in the government , had been toying with the idea of switching their support to the Social Democrats after December . |