Example sentences of "[be] their [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only hope that when I am their age I will act a little better . |
| 2 | I do n't agree with it because there are certainly seats there which are their responsibility which are not on this list , particularly around this memorial outside and places like that and erm quite categorically they 're theirs . |
| 3 | You know in a way South Wales is paying back the debt that we pa w w we paid them in their strike you know I mean and That 's communities helping communities and if really this management is talking about er the fact that they resent families not having to go without over Christmas and this sort of thing you know I mean where are their values you know it 's difficult to understand is n't it ? |
| 4 | ‘ It 's all right for them , why could n't it have been their child who died ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ For they are a proud and fierce race and would kill any that claimed to be their kin who was not . ’ |
| 6 | From the time that my colleagues in the House of Commons did me the honour of electing me to be their leader I have felt that I was in the position of a trustee ; and even throughout the war the one thing that I have aimed at constantly has been to preserve . |
| 7 | I mean I know the deal I 'd do now but er only being their consultant I ca n't really clinch it . |
| 8 | For those Celtic supporters who have had to tread a thin line between desperation and devastation this season , there was no inclination to do anything other than wallow in it being their team who had put an end to Rangers long , unbeaten run . |
| 9 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 10 | I reckon they 'll have to , yeah they will have to surely , that 's their error they 'll have |
| 11 | That is their price that 's their things their I mean it has to be a |
| 12 | Just be a bit er bit , bit er wary of them in the sense that you do n't know who 's managing the fund , er because it 's their money , it 's not your money , they do n't actually invest the money from you , it 's their money they 're investing . |
| 13 | There we go , so who , who is , this person is I do n't know , that 's their name I have now , that 's a . |
| 14 | They feel that as it 's their heritage they should have a say in the matter and a proper consideration and therefore there are thousands of signatures saying please can we have a public inquiry . |
| 15 | Fill them in to save your hospitals , not just the unions or the M Ps , Labour , Conservative , Liberal whoever they are , it 's your hospitals , it 's their hospitals they 're trying to close . |
| 16 | It 's their eyes I particularly admire . |
| 17 | erm But it basically comes down to the attitude that people have , if the government was , or whoever owns the forest , private ownership , or whatever , controls what the loggers do , I mean it 's their forest it 's up to them to control what the loggers do and do n't do , and whether they let cultivators in or they do n't let cultivators in . |
| 18 | Some of them do n't look too good , not after they been burned like that , specially when it 's their features what have gone . |
| 19 | Buckets are most usually bronze or iron bound , straight sided and on average 10 cm high and broad ; it is their smallness which makes the term ‘ bucket ’ inappropriate . |
| 20 | The raw material of events is processed ( selected , edited , dramatised , presented ) by the professionals who run the media ; ultimately it is their values which influence the version of events the public receives ( Edwards , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | Since the owners of capital have always had , and continue to have , the ear of government it is their views which prevail in the legislative sphere . |
| 22 | Those who care for ‘ ordinary ’ old people learn much about the courage and competence which so many display ; they discover that it is their ordinariness which is remarkable — their determination to carry on with the daily business of life , often in the face of considerable difficulties . |
| 23 | The series of books by Osbert Sitwell on his life are quite fascinating , but by no stretch of the imagination can the Sitwells be equated with ‘ ordinary ’ people — indeed , it is their eccentricities which fascinate . |
| 24 | It is their voice which is heard , and they often are the opinion-makers in the household and in the local community . |
| 25 | Retailers , from department stores to supermarkets to newsagents , realise that ultimately it is their consumers who have the purchasing power and freedom of choice , and if they provide the right shopping conditions , with a bright and clean atmosphere , the customer will be enticed into the shop more regularly . |
| 26 | However , although sentimentality exists in these poems , their real strength is their detachment which Gunn manages to give his poems as a whole . |
| 27 | The largest 25 producers account for more than 50% of the area planted and it is their names which are most often seen on merchant 's lists . |
| 28 | Right from the start of the project , the advice of local visually handicapped people has been sought ; it is their suggestions which have been taken up and used at Reedholme . |
| 29 | It proves to them that it is their situation which defeats them , not themselves , and there is nothing that anyone can do about it . |
| 30 | However , it should be remembered that whilst the master policy will refer to the financial institution as the ‘ Policyholder ’ it is their client who is our insured customer . |