Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The kids used to watch me working with my own tractor so I decided to make then their own version , ’ says Klaus . |
| 2 | And even if it were possible , making debtors pay 50p to prove that they had paid off their debts seems rather harshly discouraging for them — it would virtually boil down to imposing a line on them not because they had been debtors but because they had now paid their debts in full . |
| 3 | On the Vienna and Berlin routes every transport had its smattering of adult supervisors , who had to sign a pledge to return immediately they had handed over their charges to the RCM . |
| 4 | We was n't breaking the law so they had to put up their batons and go away without beating anybody … |
| 5 | They 'd been happy behind their cork and we 'd torn down their cover . |
| 6 | As the sky lightened even more and they began to make out their surroundings more clearly , Fenella and Caspar both found themselves looking out for the signs that Floy had hoped to leave . |
| 7 | Their painted lips were wide , and they continued to push up their false busts as they went past . |
| 8 | Despite this somewhat unstable basis the Company did quite well until 1630 when trade was dislocated by a famine in Gujerat , and in the next few years its legal position was undermined because Charles I allowed the Courteen family — whose interests in the West Indies had suffered because he had given away their rights in certain islands inadvertently — to trade with India without any regard for the Company 's charter . |
| 9 | Father 's parting present to us was a beautiful large lobster he and one of the boys had brought home when they went to pull up their lobster pots . |
| 10 | ’ supervisory officers were virtually confined to their office or foot after midnight on the night shift when they had used up their allocation . |
| 11 | Why do you think such extreme violence was used against law enforcement officers when they arrived to carry out their duties ? |
| 12 | Some lessees we hardly saw except when they arrived to pick up their keys and left to return them . |
| 13 | Yet when they did get home their families remarked how much more outgoing they had become . |
| 14 | A GROUP of Llandudno Junction residents yesterday claimed they were the ‘ forgotten people ’ as they struggled to clean up their homes . |
| 15 | ‘ Nice chap , ’ said Greg as he began clearing up their equipment . |