Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] their [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their mothers , lifting the heavy vessels onto their heads to carry them home , clicked at the young ones ' improvidence , as they splashed and squirted spray at one another by thumbing the tap 's mouth — mistakenly , or so they cried out when scolded . |
| 2 | The directors , who met weekly , acted as a house committee , and the minutes of their meetings show them to have been diligent in pursuing the objectives set out in the preamble to the Act of Parliament which had brought them into existence . |
| 3 | Thus , while painting and decorating courses have rather faded because people do not want ex-prisoners inside their houses to decorate them , it is apparently much more acceptable to have an ex-prisoner in your house to repair your word-processor . |
| 4 | They therefore wanted to encourage dialogue and to provide members with a range of objectives for their boards to help them establish a plan of development . |
| 5 | The warriors hurled themselves at the heads or horns of their animals to make them lie down . |
| 6 | The explanation appears to be that shepherds at high altitudes reverse their cigars in their mouths to prevent them blowing out in the wind ! |
| 7 | Although the thunder and lightning had moved further off the horses were still in a very nervous state when the roar of flames over their heads drove them wild so that they were very difficult to handle . |
| 8 | Some live within plants , stimulating the tissues of their hosts to provide them with custom-built homes by growing special galls , hollow stems or thorns with swollen bases . |
| 9 | Older people are incensed that those companies are making huge profits and that their chief executives are receiving huge increases in their salaries to bring them up to the so-called market rate , while they are paying high standing charges . |
| 10 | A transvestite told me it helped people like him to accept themselves — and the women in their lives to accept them . |