Example sentences of "[prep] their [noun pl] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many public sector employers do not bother to tell single parents about their rights in this situation , so ask your personnel or payroll department what your dependants will receive on your death . |
| 2 | Any mothers who 've married off their daughters in this dictatorial way , saying you must have this dress ! |
| 3 | That is a thoroughly unsatisfactory way of calling our Heads of Government and that Council to democratic account for their actions to this House and to our people . |
| 4 | Others among them may form consistently unfortunate or unhappy heterosexual relationships without realising the true reason for their failures in this area ; for these , realisation of their homosexual needs and urges could be a step towards release from a heterosexual bondage . |
| 5 | And Blackburn are desperately fighting for their lives in this league cup competition . |
| 6 | They get little or no publicity for their efforts in this area — quite deliberately . |
| 7 | Outside the chamber , they are asked constantly for their views on this or that issue . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're playing for their futures at this club , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The voucher holders , who also hold a gold card , will be queueing up at Roker Park for their tickets throughout this week . |
| 10 | They walked round all day with their heads slumped between their shoulders like this ’ — he took up the appropriate attitude — ‘ instead of like this , as the British do . ’ |
| 11 | Even a writer such as Elizabeth Roberts , who has a very strong view of women 's sense of responsibility towards their relatives during this period , acknowledges that old people living with relatives but unable to contribute any longer to the household economy might well be ‘ neglected ’ or ‘ pushed into a corner ’ through force of circumstances : ‘ Although the duty to care for relatives was a paramount one , rarely ignored , it is also true to say that the quality of care varied from the dreadful to the superb ’ ( Roberts , 1984 , p. 179 ) . |
| 12 | Though the trombones are capable , in a limited degree , of a certain amount of rapidity of execution , opportunities for the exploitation of their powers in this direction are rare in the orchestra . |
| 13 | This is likely to be resisted by the investors on the basis that they may not be aware of the full import of their investigations at this stage . |
| 14 | I was very lucky , though , to be given a key ; some of my colleagues had to rouse both the bodies and the ire of their landlords at this unsocial hour . |
| 15 | Appointing authorities take no responsiblity for the validity of their appointments in this regard : see 10.7.2 . |
| 16 | From 1976 to 1980 they were allowed to use 20 per cent of their contributions in this way , from 1981 to 1985 they were allowed to use 50 per cent , and since then the permitted ratio has been 60 per cent . |
| 17 | It would be ambitious , therefore , on the basis of their similarities with this mosaic , to include the basic concentric circular arrangements from Cirencester or Lydney . |
| 18 | Because speakers view their voices as an important part of their self-images in this way , they are often unhappy about being recorded without their knowledge . |
| 19 | This was a process which extended over a long period , and in the seventeenth century the extent of their privileges in this respect was still far from clear . |
| 20 | This happened rather often , and if the inhabitants of Oswaldston had not mostly been shut up in front of their televisions at this time of day , it might already have given rise to some talk . |
| 21 | To begin with , it was suggested , they should allocate a quarter of their places to this scheme , but eventually all their places should be open to pupils with state grants . |
| 22 | Then , in 1393 , a provisional agreement was reached giving the English Calais ( which they already held ) and that part of Aquitaine south of the river Charente ( much of south-west France which was largely out of their hands at this time ) , all this to be alienated to Gaunt in the near future . |
| 23 | There were many others as well as myself put out or deprived of their parks about this time to make room for Webster [ the under factor for whom the house at Daill Farm was built ] . |
| 24 | Achievement conscious pupils may conspire with their teachers in this process of limitation too , drawing them back to safer pedagogical ground when exploration threatens to divert them from their examination destination . |
| 25 | There is a lot of justification for his and hers clothes and various other personal items , but we always feel that couples who continue to deal with their finances in this way are missing a part of the oneness that others experience . |
| 26 | Liefmans plan to impress potential customers with their products at this month 's Innovate 91 exhibition in London where they will have a stand in the ‘ Real Ale Village ’ . |
| 27 | Parents may need to sit with their children during this learning phase to encourage them to stay seated and to talk to them and distract them with stories and play . |
| 28 | It was above all grandmothers who came to live with their children in this way : five times as many as grandfathers . |
| 29 | But not everyone wants to mix purely with their peers at this age any more than at any other . |
| 30 | With an appropriately warmer acoustic than some of the other recordings in this series , these are sound and generally idiomatic performances which can hold their own with their rivals in this price range . |