Example sentences of "with their [adj] [noun] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bradshaw and Millar ( 1991 ) found that about 17 per cent of the single mothers in their sample had lived with their former partners before becoming a lone parent . |
| 2 | SINCE THE Inspirals first wowed us with their heady mixture of growling pop , sensitive poetry and bad haircuts , much on the Planet Carpet has changed . |
| 3 | Excluded , naturally , from the better parties , some of them would attempt to get on terms with their social superiors by bursting in with a search warrant in one hand and evidence in another , which they would produce from nowhere like cabaret artists plucking doves out of the air . |
| 4 | If England persist with their unfortunate habit of combining brilliant rugby with bovine penalty concessions , both Hilditch and Springbok captain Naas Botha will punish them ; IF England try to run possession as stupidly as they did against Australia in the World Cup final , either from too deep or too static , they will not break down a defence inspired by arrogance and pride ; IF England spill ball in the contact , another trait of early-season activity , this Springbok side are prepared to run , ball in hand , from end to end and can make a birthday cake out of crumbs . |
| 5 | It is directly concerned with individuals , with their minds and with their own way of looking at things . |
| 6 | The significance of the anonymity issue for many of the legal experts lies more with their own concern with getting more women to report rape , than with raped women 's own priorities for legal change . |
| 7 | On sale in M & S food halls is a ring of 40 king prawns with their own pot of mouthwatering cocktail dip . |
| 8 | These rather simple expectations were not fulfilled however : the worst housed were not necessarily relocated and the new estates were associated in due time with their own problems of overcrowding , poverty and undernourishment . |
| 9 | There can be no reliable estimate that — ’ 10 per cent of the homes built in 1980 in New Mexico were made from adobe ’ , because Spanish Americans and Anglo Americans far from rich , can so easily convert the soil from beneath their feet into walls around new rooms , and they do this regularly with their own hands in enlarging their houses . |
| 10 | Holders of non-British passports and those issued outside the UK should check with their own embassy with regard to any special permits or visas required for all countries they will be visiting or passing through . |
| 11 | Meanwhile state-owned energy monopolies have come up with their own solution to generating more electricity without angering local environmentalists : moving their power stations to Eastern Europe . |
| 12 | People in poor countries lose touch with their own ways of meeting their needs — and may be too polite to tell foreign volunteers that they are compounding the problem . |