Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] their [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I notice the government also talk about job seekers these days as opposed to people who are unemployed but for those who get up early in the morning or raise their head off the pillow as I do , see the business news on half past six on er B B C 1 . |
| 2 | reserve the seller 's title to the goods themselves ( i.e. until either the buyer has paid or else the goods are sold by the buyer or lose their identity in the buyer 's manufacturing or other process ) , and |
| 3 | Oh , they were my daily joy , Dirty Dick , Harry , Bert , Prickwillow , working on the green baize under the bench lights , the elastic band round the grey heads holding the jeweller 's eyeglass or checking their tolerances with the white-coated draughtsmen , or rouging the last tenth of a thou from a newly-turned and bored brass centimetric attenuator . |
| 4 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
| 5 | Others went off for extended periods as migrant ( dekasegi ) workers or severed their ties with the land altogether . |
| 6 | Deutsche Bank Research says it does not expect northern EC members to revalue or devalue their currencies before the introduction of the single European currency . |
| 7 | Every staff member who leaves , retires or ceases their employment of the Bank , should be replaced by a full-time official . |
| 8 | A NEW directory of scientific research projects at Oxford University is available free for companies looking for opportunities to collaborate with academics or transfer their technology to the marketplace . |
| 9 | There are mothers and daughters who can talk freely about sex , and mothers who send or accompany their daughter to the doctor to get the Pill , as Tracy 's mother had , but they tend to be the exception . |
| 10 | In an undisturbed home , all domestic cats see themselves as subordinates of their human owners , so under normal circumstances all domestic cats use litter trays or bury their faeces in the garden . |
| 11 | Many of the diplomas and certificates offered by the University are intended to prepare students for a particular career path , or to enhance their prospects in the career they have already chosen by extending their knowledge and developing their skills . |
| 12 | It is possible to regard the perceived characteristics of the universities as both strengths and weaknesses , to applaud or to regret their commitment to the ‘ guardianship ’ of knowledge and their resistance to performing the ‘ wider service ’ , and in both cases to end up with the binary policy . |
| 13 | They spent so much time in Zap Zone at Streatham , scampering about in clouds of dry ice , zapping each other with laser guns , so many hours watching Neighbours or running up and down shopping-malls , playing Super Nintendo , they had probably not had time to go anywhere near a mosque or get their heads round the basics of Islamic education . |
| 14 | The posters on the walls were all the same old ones of 1950s legionnaires in tanks looking at the desert through binoculars , or cutting their way through the jungle with machetes . |
| 15 | Beginning to take responsibility for their own property , they may be proud to count how many paintings they have done or sort their work from the pile , to take home . |
| 16 | Here the blaze had started , killing Dame Frances whilst the rest of the nuns , given some warning , had managed to jump out of the windows or find their way down the outside stairs . |
| 17 | Ashley waited until their fellow diners had drifted away to explore the gardens or dip their hands in the cool water which tinkled in the stone fountains , and then moved her chair closer to her escort 's . |
| 18 | Visitors can see Barnaby 's bazaar of teddy bear souvenirs or try their luck at the tombola , where they could win one of the teddies donated by a celebrity . |
| 19 | When they are supposed to be arguing about the rider or scrawling their name on the walls , they sit quietly down and start replying to fan letters , or in Solowka 's case , it 's off with the flat-cap and out with the calculator . |
| 20 | He was also alleged to have dragged or thrown their sister by the neck so as to cause bruising to the upper arm and neck . |
| 21 | The regarders , like the verderers , were frequently amerced at Forest Eyres for failure to carry out their duties to the satisfaction of the judges — for failing to appear with the other regarders to make the regard , or to take the regarders ' oath , or to present their rolls of the regard on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or for losing their rolls , or for incompleteness in their returns . |
| 22 | Rather than ramming the trainers with the guns , the dolphins either " swam away or put their snouts on the trainers ' shoulders — very affectionately ! " |
| 23 | But even when that linkage has been broken by the entrance of a new press owner — Conrad Black , Rupert Murdoch , David Stevens — the newspapers in question have either maintained or reasserted their commitment to the political right . |
| 24 | The linguists were allowed to diminish or extinguish their study of the sciences : the scientists , if they were to maintain a full programme in three separate sciences , had no time to waste on languages . |
| 25 | Those who have been daydreaming or carving their initials into the desktops sit up . |
| 26 | Not to be outdone the Wesleyan Methodists rejoiced in 1898 ‘ in the growing sense of kinship that marks our relations with the United States ’ , expressed their ‘ warmest sympathy ’ with America 's efforts to ‘ disburden suffering peoples of the pitiless and truculent misgovernments under which they have groaned ’ and rejoiced that ‘ In fusing together the two great divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race , the Churches have played the chief part although ’ , they added as a reprove to their more ‘ political ’ friends , the Baptists and Congregationalists , ‘ like their Lord , they do not cry nor uplift their voice in the highways of International politics ’ . |
| 27 | The hens moved carefully about , picking their way on their spindly yellow legs , muttering comfortably to each other and darting their heads to the ground every so often in pursuit of something delicious . |
| 28 | You will need to have an impressive knowledge of research techniques linked with outstanding management skills to manage a young , dynamic team , and develop their work within the organisation 's changing structure . |
| 29 | Entrants had to pick one of the four sections and develop their design from the abstract ideas that they found there . |
| 30 | The worms can only live in compostable material so there 's no fear of them making a bid for freedom and eating their way through the vegetable patch . |