Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] their [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the committee are entitled to receive any travelling expenses directly incurred by them or their representatives in attending at committee meetings or otherwise on the committee 's business ( r 6.164 ) . |
| 2 | People came in and out , but he did n't really notice them or their words of encouragement . |
| 3 | Will my right hon. Friend send a message today to the leaders of the National Association of Local Government Officers who are spending some £2 million on a shoddy and inaccurate advertising campaign , telling them that their policies of abandoning competitive tendering , abolishing the Audit Commission and introducing a minimum wage would be acceptable only to a party which has already sold its soul to the trade union bosses ? |
| 4 | It does not seem to bother them that their chances of survival are low , but then only the most crazed Goblins would want to be propelled high into the air anyway . |
| 5 | If they find that their plans can not be carried out , this teaches them that their anticipations concerning the decisions of others were overly optimistic . |
| 6 | Edward I , as duke of Aquitaine , was particularly sought after by Gascon nobles as a patron of knighthood , prepared to gird them and their sons with the sword which was the symbol of their order . |
| 7 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 8 | They can be sure they will hear news and debates on issues that affect them and their families in Britain and back in their mother country . |
| 9 | These casuals were probably some of the most hygienic people in England , because every institution plunged them and their shirts into the wash before all else . |
| 10 | Community nurses need to feel they can trust Council to act for them and their patients in directing the development of the profession , but unfortunately , his episode will do little to persuade them that this is the case . |
| 11 | Notice of the time and place of the proceedings must , on request , be sent to the requesting authority , or direct to the parties , to enable them and their representatives to be present . |
| 12 | Similarly , if women 's role as workers is emphasised to the detriment of consideration of their role as housewives and — more particularly — their role as mothers , then the ‘ proletarianisation ’ of women could confine them and their children to dependence on means-tested state benefits and/or low pay from part-time ‘ women 's work ’ . |
| 13 | This has encouraged teachers to turn a blind eye to LMS in the hope that somehow , somewhere , someone will do something to protect them and their pupils from ‘ it ’ . |
| 14 | These images were inherited by Edward I and his successors , and also reminded them and their counsellors of the ideal qualities attributed to one of their illustrious predecessors . |
| 15 | It is something on which they can rely and something that their colleagues in other countries will find difficult to deny . |
| 16 | My main impression was that they both had very fair hair and small features , which surprised me because their photographs in the newspapers give a different impression , particularly in the case of Prince Charles . |
| 17 | The pro-English party must have realised , however , that neither they nor their masters in London were in a position to hold out for long . |
| 18 | Thus , where the first coordinators fulfilled a brief dominated by special needs , with curriculum development and TTT level-pegging a little way behind , they and their successors in 1989 were as likely to be concerned with curriculum management and teaching , in collaboration or alone . |
| 19 | Crawford played Battersea Bats leader Peter Toms , complete with short trousers , who throws out one of his members , ‘ Foureyes ’ Fulton , blaming him when their plans for an exceptional car are stolen by Victoria Victors leader Lew Lender . |
| 20 | T is their weakening the Church of England by their separation from it and their Invectives against it , that makes the Pope presume he may attack it … with Victory and Success " . |
| 21 | Should councils be asked to relieve the public sector borrowing requirement of that burden of long-term debt by transferring it and their balances to housing associations ? |
| 22 | Certainly if players such as Edberg , involved in the final stages of the Australian Open , felt even remotely like I did after the 31 hours it took me to arrive home from Melbourne before leaving on another seven hour journey to Bayonne less than 24 hours later , then it is no wonder that many of them are unable to do justice either to themselves or their countries in Davis Cup competition , as things stand . |
| 23 | All they wanted was to live out their lives in a peaceful and financially comfortable exile and they had no thought of putting themselves or their positions at risk by indulging in some political adventure . |
| 24 | The desert is a place of scorching heat by day and bitter cold by night and the mission would find little water for themselves or their animals for weeks at a time . |
| 25 | Some set up agricultural communities where they could take refuge from public contempt for ‘ conchies ’ and convince themselves that their experiments in communal living would , once ‘ the grim period of war is over … be remembered as the forerunner of the new society . ’ |
| 26 | They persuaded themselves that their visions of revolution and the total reconstruction of society were somehow in accordance with historical development . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , so long as they did not organise — and sometimes even when they did — the workers themselves provided their employers with a solution to the problem of labour management : by and large they liked to work , and their expectations were remarkably modest . |
| 28 | Over anxious children afraid of school and afraid of making mistakes present themselves and their parents with all sorts of problems . |
| 29 | In all cases English kings had to come to terms with the conditions which they found in these three different countries ; and in all cases they had to show an ability to adapt themselves and their armies to new conditions , military , social and economic , as well as to new thinking in the ways that armies were formed and war was fought . |
| 30 | ( 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 . |