Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] on their " in BNC.
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| 1 | They accused him of altering the figures on receipts for money they had given for the release of prisoners , handing over a smaller sum to creditors and pocketing the difference ; charging prisoners for candles ; taking £5 out of the Poor Box to free a prisoner ; lending them money on their plate and watches which belonged to their creditors . |
| 2 | On first seeing All Quiet on the Western Front it was as if the whole cast had marched through my life on their way to Wallsend station and the battlefields of Europe . |
| 3 | Many of the girls depend for their livelihood on their wages . " |
| 4 | Although Swim hail from Dublin you will only be able to infer their Celtic roots — they 're not a band that wear their heart on their sleeve . |
| 5 | Although Swim hail from Dublin you will only be able to infer their Celtic roots — they 're not a band that wear their heart on their sleeve . |
| 6 | Especially among older women , as Judith Oliver discovered , this will also take its toll on their own physical and mental well-being . |
| 7 | Allison and Ronnie were devastated at losing their ‘ special ’ baby and the strain of having so many miscarriages was beginning to take its toll on their marriage . |
| 8 | But might duty also disrupts family life , appetite , and sleeping patterns , and policewomen particularly complain of its effect on their roles as mother and housewife , although some policemen also talk sadly of how they miss seeing their children when on nights . |
| 9 | His wife Svetlana is worried about radiation from the nuclear test sites on nearby Novaya Zemlaya island , and its effect on their four-year-old son . |
| 10 | They know about the development of science and its effect on their environment : one of them is a radio ham , another an electronics freak . |
| 11 | A late election will not be admitted outside the statutory time limit if the delay is due to : oversight or negligence on the part of a partner or his agent ; because one of the parties to the election temporarily refuses to sign it ; or because the delay is deliberate to give the parties the opportunity to determine its effect on their tax liabilities . |
| 12 | The general level of pain and fear for all gay men who call is now higher and just below the surface , as many of them seek to come to terms with the virus and its effect on their lives . |
| 13 | Another six families are thought to be suing the baby drinks firm this year because of its effect on their children 's teeth . |
| 14 | Clients had initially answered a questionnaire about their condition and its effect on their family , working and social life , and a plan was then devised to address these concerns . |
| 15 | A girl had been murdered and their sole concern seemed to be its effect on their own convenience . |
| 16 | Overall numbers of those using the Chaplaincy seemed to have increased and the University Registry had forwarded the names of those students who had volunteered their religion on their enrolment form . |
| 17 | and you keep their work on their disks and if they want it |
| 18 | They should have known all along that she was lying but everyone was in a hurry to get away from her embarrassing tears and her insistence on their testifying to this and that . |
| 19 | Furthermore , most of the front-line states are dependent on transport routes through South Africa , which has imposed substantial increases in transit costs , tightening its hold on their economies and raising the cost of imports . |
| 20 | Somebody may use standard enquiry facilities within the accounting system , they may use the report writing tools that are provided with the accounting system or they may use other things , Forest and Trees , Lotus , Excel , so on and so forth which run on their P C which they know and which they love . |
| 21 | Yes , the basement is for those who fail , the lower basement is for those failures who blame their failure on their supporters . |
| 22 | Mr Morton goes on to say it was the Queen who persuaded her not to try to end her marriage and to accompany her husband on their official visit to South Korea . |
| 23 | List MdBs must emulate them if they wish to safeguard their place on their party 's list or hope to win a constituency seat at the next election . |
| 24 | The only people left in London who put their name on their doorbells these days were called Monica or Helga , and there was rarely a surname . |
| 25 | The RAF had recovered their pride on their home territory and won the event . |
| 26 | The couple have not turned their back on their Catholic faith . |
| 27 | There were still people who saw the life of a modern university as ‘ some community of pure scholar-students pursuing their work regardless of its bearing on their subsequent careers , and of staff having the sole duty of inculcating appropriate habits of thought and advancing knowledge with no practical application ’ . |
| 28 | In Ashton 's The Two Pigeons and A Month in the Country there is the ecstatic quiver of the leg which continues upwards through the body until the Young Girl or Natalia and Vera can rest their head on their lover 's shoulder as they embrace . |
| 29 | The event went down in their traditions as the greatest act of salvation ever performed by their God on their behalf . |
| 30 | Yes , a useful point of clarification because actually we bid to the , we 've made a submission to the Department of Transport to install cameras on their behalf on their roads and we want them to pay for them . |