Example sentences of "[pos pn] family [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question of the taxation of merchant seamen in respect of travel concessions to their families on their employers ' ships was raised by another speaker and an amendment ( No. 299 ) was tabled to meet their position . |
| 2 | She had offered Dora and Lyddy a holiday , a chance to go back to their families on their inland farms , but they had refused with dignity . |
| 3 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 4 | ( c ) Goodwill Before the Finance Act 1956 and the introduction of tax relief for contributions to retirement annuity contracts for the self-employed , outgoing partners in solicitors ' firms invariably relied upon being paid out for their interest in the firm 's goodwill as the principal means of providing for themselves and their families during their retirement and after their death . |
| 5 | Aileen is proud of her family for their support and for what they have achieved . |
| 6 | In March , her friend Mary-Ann Stewart-Richardson invited her to join her family on their skiing holiday in the French Alps . |
| 7 | ‘ Our landlady , Mrs Beavis , is having supper with her family in their kitchen , ’ said Joe . |
| 8 | Walkerdine , recording interviews with and observing a working-class 6-year-old girl and her family in their home , uses fantasy to explore how she identifies with the family from her working-class childhood , and is at the same time distanced from it by her middle-class academic adulthood : |
| 9 | They often drag down members of their family into their coal cellar of degradation as they fuel the fires of self destruction . |
| 10 | This demonstrated the importance of family factors in determining the occupational choice of rural school-leavers — nearly 42 per cent of the respondents stated that they had been influenced by their family in their decision to work on the land . |
| 11 | He nevertheless adapted well to this new-fangled contraption and made the most excellent coffee on it , of which we drank many cups with him and his family during their visit . |
| 12 | For Tony , that he may rest in peace , and for his family for their strengthening and peace . |
| 13 | In November 1913 he accompanied his family on their way to England as far as the railhead , which had now reached the Awash river , and then returned to Addis Ababa . |
| 14 | Half-an-hour later , her father drove Derek and his family to their home . |
| 15 | When the knight got to be too old for fighting , about 30 ( ! ) , and became arthritic and slow , his squire would have learned all the skills of chivalry and daring , and would defend him and his family into their old age . |
| 16 | Two separate but converging stories are recounted in alternating chapters : the story of the White Russian Preobrajensky regiment under the command of Prince Ypsilanti , which for two years , cut off from contact with the outside world , marches through Siberia trying to reach the Tsar , and that of Tsar Nicholas II himself and his family in their last months , especially during their confinement at Ekaterinburg . |
| 17 | ‘ I would be grateful if you would ask your parishioners to remember both him and his family in their prayers . |
| 18 | On the move , in more ways than one , , one of our warehousemen , moved house earlier this month , best of luck to and his family in their new home . |
| 19 | He developed what psychologists might describe as a reluctance to address members of his family by their given names or titles . |