Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [v-ing] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to tell the story in a manner that the children would understand , but I did not want to risk ruining their sleep by a description of details . |
| 2 | On 7 April , 1982 , the Att Ln David Tinker , RN , wrote to his wife , ‘ I doubt if the Argentinians will want to risk sending their ships out . |
| 3 | Spinrad has then been able to go to work calculating their distance . |
| 4 | Although it is less common than getting lower grades than predicted , some people get much better results and want to consider changing their plans accordingly . |
| 5 | Our job seems to be simply to convey a willingness to talk , and gently test out whether the people involved want to start exploring their worries and anticipated issues ; but they must never be forced . |
| 6 | A Youth to Lourdes ' group has started planning their pilgrimage for next July . |
| 7 | Many of those artists have settled in Mexico where a Cuban dealer has begun selling their work . |
| 8 | So instead of waiting indefinitely for a buyer , they have decided to try selling their house by auction . |
| 9 | He 's he 's out yes and there are two or three in which have erm you know they 're sorry that they 've gone back and er we feel sorry sort of for them that they 've dropped into and a lot of our young lads have got mortgages and all that but there are some gone back er they need not people erm they 'd finished rearing their families and everything . |
| 10 | People are absolutely not going to like ordering their beer from a doctor . |
| 11 | ‘ They were even asking the manager if he was going to continue paying their bonus for still being down the pit , ’ he said . |
| 12 | er sale occurred when they went through the electrical register and asked people who lived in flats whether they wanted a green cone , they did n't even have a garden , let alone a window box but nevertheless erm I the green cone extends ought to be reported on , ought to be encouraged and such like because it is the individual person who is going to recycle using their own garden in their own small way as opposed to transporting the stuff maybe to a waste tip and such like where it has to be dealt with at a an expensive way and if a the best part of the expense of dealing with waste of course is actually to transport and transport throughout the roads and if you do it in your own gardens so much the better and I , I , I should like to er and taking part in the green cone experiment er further experiments like that whereby the individual person is encouraged to do it . |
| 13 | Now , as the bloke said there , the only way you can do that with people coming in from the outside is that British Gas have got to keep pushing their prices up to make it worthwhile for somebody else to come in . |
| 14 | Emeryville , California-based , Scopus Technology Inc and Mercury Interactive Corporation are going to start co-marketing their quality assurance tools . |
| 15 | If someone has offered you free riding on their horse they are not going to appreciate finding their yard covered in droppings and scattered with grooming kit after you have left , or that you abandoned a sweaty horse without seeing to it after you have ridden . |
| 16 | The Government has had to stop indexing their pensions for some years now . |
| 17 | Delegates were invited to start preparing their applications . |
| 18 | Younger first time buyers would find such a scheme an unnecessary burden since , presuming that they retired at the standard age , they would have to continue paying their mortgage for 30 or 40 years before the pension plan matured to pay it off . |
| 19 | and everybody seems to keep burying their head in the sa well when I say everybody I mean the Tech particularly are burying their head in the sand , they do n't seem to want to invest anything in preparing for , they 're called Youth Credits now are n't they ? |
| 20 | Others publishers , with an eye on longterm prosperity , perhaps even survival , may wish to start building their launch pads from scratch and without delay . |
| 21 | Merioneth , wooden spoonists in last season 's competition , are having to delay announcing their team to visit reigning champions Denbighshire at Gwersyllt . |
| 22 | Further , to have made the concession over restoration of lands would have meant depriving their own people of their French interests , something which , for both moral and financial reasons , they were not prepared to do . |
| 23 | ‘ Until the authorities in Sarajevo decide to stop playing politics with humanitarian aid and decide to stop depriving their own people of food , we wo n't be able to deliver , ’ UNHCR spokeswoman Sylvana Foa said in Geneva . |
| 24 | Scores of disabled workers are to lose their jobs after a council decided to stop subsidising their workshops . |
| 25 | To make it commercially attractive to somebody else British Gas have to got keep lifting their prices to a level , that eventually somebody comes in and says oh yes |
| 26 | The privatization of the state-owned economy took a further step on Feb. 17 with the start of the preliminary or " zero " round , under which investors were allowed to start placing their vouchers in any of the 437 officially sanctioned investment funds [ for details of privatization programme see pp. 38584-85 ; 38734 ] . |
| 27 | After the inquiry into the resulting fire , Griffith and Lockspeiser were commanded to cease wasting their time . |
| 28 | The bill entered into force on March 13 , and under a transitional regulation in force until the end of 1990 citizens were allowed to resume using their former names simply by registering them with local authorities ; after 1990 a name could only be changed subject to approval and registration by a court of law . |
| 29 | For girls who had delayed making their pregnancy public , at the time it seemed impossible to tell anyone , but afterwards they all wished that they had . |
| 30 | Later one of the teachers noticed that Stephen had written a short piece about the provision of gas masks that concluded : ‘ No real gas attack ever took place and so by the middle of 1940 most people had stopped carrying their masks . ’ |