Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should always be with the opposite sex only ; yet novel reading girls exhaust their female magnetism without obtaining any compensating male magnetism , which of necessity deranges their entire sexual system . |
| 2 | According to Braverman , clerical workers in 1870 had many similarities to manual craft workers ; both had wide ranging responsibilities and had plenty of opportunity to use their initiative and develop their skills . |
| 3 | They knew only two ways to make money out of territorial expansion : to find gold and silver , or to make themselves into landlords with plenty of tenants to cultivate their new estates . |
| 4 | I see plenty of females has their little bubbies wiz 'em . |
| 5 | It is very relaxing for the horses and there are plenty of hills to strengthen their legs and two excellent gallops . ’ |
| 6 | Well , plenty of tourists spend their mornings in museums and picture galleries and cathedrals , and nobody would quarrel with them for that . |
| 7 | No dust showed above the roads yet , evidence that the French had plenty of time to make their attack . |
| 8 | I repeat it here , as in sections 3.3 to 3.5 we will be looking at three different theories , each of which takes a different starting-point to the debate over the service economy , which in turn influences their conceptual framework and what counts as valid kinds of evidence . |
| 9 | The trade routes of the Mediterranean , for example , and the volume of traffic they carried , help to explain the location , size and wealth of towns , which in turn affect their character as centres of commerce or industrial production . |
| 10 | Once women can control unexpected births through contraception they spend longer in the labour force and invest more in education and qualifications which in turn increases their earning potential and makes the economic incentives against starting a family more marked . |
| 11 | By so doing he provides her with some immunity against the chronic depression which afflicts so many mothers of pre-school age children , and which in turn undermines their abilities as parents . |
| 12 | Unidroit , for example , goes to considerable trouble , by means of consultations with representative international organizations and by questionnaires to specialists and to governments which in turn consult their national organizations , to establish that those practising in the field in question believe that differences in national laws create a problem and that harmonization would bring benefits . |
| 13 | The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number . |
| 14 | British custom string manufacturers Newtone will talk to you for hours explaining their new range of Burns strings . |
| 15 | Benson made 107 at Canterbury in Kent 's second innings 231 as they lost by 110 runs to Warwickshire , who like Glamorgan gained their second championship victory to go second in the table behind Surrey . |
| 16 | Benson made 107 at Canterbury in Kent 's second innings 231 as they lost by 110 runs to Warwickshire , who like Glamorgan gained their second championship victory to go second in the table behind Surrey . |
| 17 | The core of the Octobrist party , which had suffered major defections to the Right , and a new Progressive party , led by a group of Moscow industrialists , moved close to the Kadets , who in turn intensified their opposition to the government . |
| 18 | Blue ear disease in pigs has been allowed to run unchecked by the Government who in September closed their veterinary investigation centre in Lincoln , which is where work into that type of disease was carried out . |
| 19 | With the law as it is there may be some men who would prefer an adult partner , but who at present turn their attention to boys because they consider that this course is less likely to lay them open to prosecution or to blackmail than if they sought other adults as their partners . |
| 20 | The other was more subtle ; by housing his workers in the country , where life was far healthier than in the crowded tenements of the city , he could provide them with space to grow their own vegetables . |
| 21 | Bolognese lawyers were so important to both the papal and imperial parties in supplying them with lawyers to staff their governments and administrations that they were given special protection . |
| 22 | She had discovered that mixing them with whisky heightened their effect , and my beautiful , fiery Mother became a zombie . |
| 23 | From the fourth century , popes , bishops , and emperors competed in fostering the memorials of the martyrs , rediscovering or restoring their burials , adorning them with inscriptions recording their deeds , erecting great basilicas in the cemeteries to accommodate the crowds of worshippers . |
| 24 | It will provide them with qualifications recognising their skills , and encouragement with their JS careers . ’ |
| 25 | He 'll devote time to them , teaching them , encouraging them , supporting them , providing them with opportunities to develop their unique talents . |
| 26 | Bringing virtually everyone into hospital to have their babies meant the ‘ luxury ’ of an eight or ten-day stay had to go . |
| 27 | Buy one for £45 to celebrate their 125th anniversary . |
| 28 | The process will necessarily be a dynamic one with DHAs updating their plans annually and modifying their pattern of contracts both to reflect changing needs and to respond to new services becoming available from current or alternative providers . |
| 29 | Their joint contribution would have warranted a commemorative book , had not one by chance bearing their names already been recently released . |
| 30 | I heard the receptionist fielding phone calls , all of them from girls demanding their pay . ’ |