Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education has always been a low government spending priority , with the oligarchy preferring to send their children to private schools and then universities abroad . |
| 2 | Stewpid is back at school with his arm in plaster , and he is the big HERO with kids queueing to write their names on his plasterised arm . |
| 3 | But his chief duty will be as coach to a club looking to overhaul their playing structure ready for the move to top-class new facilities the season after next . |
| 4 | The result is that they are bought up by development companies , insurance companies and pension funds looking to maximize their value . |
| 5 | HIGH-RIDING Swansea swept into an eighth minute lead against a Chester side looking to continue their recent revival . |
| 6 | Vitor smiled the slow crooked smile which had once had his female fans attempting to push their telephone numbers — sometimes accompanied by intimate items of underwear — into his hand . |
| 7 | If they heard a knock at the door or if they heard shouting and bawling in the street , but there 's nothing they can do what we 're asking for here is and I 'm asking for support is a phone to the people who can not afford one whereas if they hear something they can phone the police , or they can phone the support unit because are two people staying together in this day and age where they can not walk in the streets they 're attacked even in broad daylight going to get their pensions never mind at night-time . |
| 8 | Ordinary Koreans wishing to see their country independent , unified and tackling its social and economic problems radically felt betrayed at the deep conservatism that distinguished the occupation . |
| 9 | Any tutors wishing to present their students with a more or less logical progression from year one to year seven , have to contend with the awkward fact that in the summer term the examination classes are only in attend for their examinations . |
| 10 | Franklin employ their own teacher sales team to give advice and support to schools starting to use their products . |
| 11 | Although quite a few had subsequently been dismissed , both Braithwaite and Colclough having had their spies in the Chartist ranks , men who had sung those Chartist hymns about freedom and justice the loudest as they had been memorizing names and faces to sell afterwards to Uriah and Ben . |
| 12 | I watched the cars stopping to pay their money at the toll-house and wondered if any of the drivers were tempted to put their foot down on the accelerator and go Zoom-Crash ! down to the bottom of the gorge . |
| 13 | Incredibly , impersonation of this sort to get hold of data is not a criminal offense , in this country there is no law as such which makes it illegal to steal information , and the main piece of legislation , the Data Protection Act contains a massive loophole , it only applies to the holders of information not to third parties trying to get their hands on it . |
| 14 | We used numerous tactics trying to engage their support and tried to enlist the help of the Prime Minister , the Royal Family , the Scottish Office and as Helen Martin said ‘ If we had known the address of the man up above ( God ) we would have wrote to him as well . ’ |
| 15 | Firstly , there needs to be an overall strategy for the change , rather than individual units trying to manage their own parts of it in an ad hoc way . |
| 16 | A couple of hundred years ago two Jesuit missionaries trying to find their way back to the Orinoco stumble across them , get them to build a raft and then pole the two Godmen several hundred miles south while the said Godmen preach them the Gospel and try to get them to wear Levis . |
| 17 | In Wales , the Premier League gets under way with Whitchurch hoping to repeat their success of last season . |
| 18 | These days , Parkes finds fans scrapping to get their hands on set lists , drum sticks , and towels . |
| 19 | A DESPERATE couple in Chelyabinsk , Russia , tried to place a newspaper advert offering to swap their baby for a bigger home . |
| 20 | Not all coffin-makers could go to the expense of buying in two-foot widths of wood ; some made up their cases from twelve-inch or six-inch planks , relying on the velvet covering to mask their technique . |
| 21 | Otherwise , junk issuers wanting to cut their debt might have to resort to the bankruptcy courts to encourage their debt-holders to accept stock . |
| 22 | The patterns of employment in Britain are being re-structured by employers seeking to maintain their market position during the current recession , and introduce new technology . |
| 23 | There is , however , another version of methodological individualism which proceeds from the opposite , and apparently more promising starting point — namely that racism is a rational or calculating strategy on the part of specific individuals or groups seeking to maximize their political or economic interests . |
| 24 | In view of the history of rural housing it was therefore somewhat ironic to find in 1976 that changes to the tied cottage legislation were opposed by the farmers ' lobby on the grounds that there were insufficient safeguards against local authorities refusing to meet their housing responsibilities ! |
| 25 | They were clearly on the lookout for a second opening to pillory their headmistress . |
| 26 | US Marines have won medals of honour dying to save their flag , and these kids died for their symbols as well . |
| 27 | Yesterday 's ruling suggests companies seeking to protect their commercial secrets may have a case under Section 10 . |
| 28 | At Middlesbrough , the Hugh Bell School was partially evacuated to Pickering , North Yorkshire , a number of parents refusing to let their children be evacuated . |
| 29 | The notion of a ‘ debt crisis ’ is fired by fears of Third World countries refusing to repay their loans . |
| 30 | British Telecommunications Plc has a £5m five-year contract to take over ownership and management of Thorn EMI Plc 's internal UK telephone network : the contract marked the official launch of its Communications Management Service which designs , implements , operates and manages large business communications facilities for companies wanting to put their UK private networks out to facilities management . |