Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People have very quickly got used to the idea of crushing their cans and putting them in the special bins provided . |
| 2 | breaking their legs and kicking them in their bollo I mean balls , in the , in the , in the |
| 3 | ‘ If we had been away and had a long night-time car journey ahead of us , ’ he said , ‘ we used to put the children in their pyjamas and wrap them in blankets before we started . |
| 4 | ‘ These others , they want to cut you with their knives and throw you in the river . |
| 5 | But getting a job after years spent bringing up a family is n't necessarily an end in itself For many women , it 's all part of changing their lives and pointing them in the direction they want to go in-of being in charge of their own destiny . |
| 6 | If you think about how people perceive things — with any of their senses and process them in their minds , you immediately realize that the human mind works to a very large extent by association , and by a more or less impenetrable system of mental shortcuts — just try playing word association games . |
| 7 | Ace and Petion slipped off the safety catches on their automatics and pressed themselves in close to the walls , ready to spring . |
| 8 | Some people find the options bewildering and feel that , with many old values discarded , they have no solid core of new ones to take their places and guide them in their choice . |
| 9 | ‘ We do agree in Vestry held at the Bull Inn in Potton the 13th day of October 1812 that Roger Johnson , breeches maker of Potton , Beds. aforesaid shall farm the workhouse after the rate of 4s.6d per head old and young , to have their earnings and to employ them in any way to his advantage , to provide a sufficient quantity of good wholesome food and to have their meals hot three days in the week ( commonly called pott days ) … ’ |
| 10 | The parents had to be able to present a full defence , he said , and if the whole case had been heard in Inverness , it would have been almost impossible to fully safeguard their interests and get everybody in the right place at the right time . |
| 11 | State officials are dependent upon capitalist economic development and growth if they are going to be able to pursue their interests and sustain themselves in office , so they are constrained to act in the interests of capital , although not necessarily in its optimal interests ( Offe , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | Now he could understand why the Finns came running out of their saunas and rolled themselves in the snow . |
| 13 | Planes from the college regularly shut down their engines and restart them in mid-air as an exercise . |
| 14 | It follows that it is wrong to hold people responsible for their crimes and punish them in ways that imply that their crimes are their own fault . |
| 15 | Request the drug lords of Los Angeles take their monies and invest them in business and property in Los Angeles |