Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be on their " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be one of the major frustrations of being a veterinary surgeon that you can never convince your patients that you are on their side and are working tirelessly to save them and help them back to full health . |
| 2 | And I , I suspect that they 're on their way out because the way they leap and scream and bang and thump I should think that they , most of them have been on drugs . |
| 3 | We learned that they were on their summer holidays , taking their kayak round the outer reaches of the Arctic . |
| 4 | Dan had suggested a drink , and she 'd agreed , happier now that they were on their way back . |
| 5 | I honestly believe that the rail workers would n't have accepted the one and a half per cent , other workers would n't have accepted the one and a half per cent if they believed that they were on their own that they were gon na fight in isolation . |
| 6 | Lucy : ( At school ) there used to be a group of white girls and a group of black girls , right and y'know , they start … once they 're on their own they 're alright but once they 're with their people they get a bit lippy so they start callin' me black bastard — ‘ Look at you you mother fucker ’ — an' all that fing . |
| 7 | once they were on their way the runners … 370 of them were under orders for their start … |
| 8 | During the Second World War the King of Saudi Arabia , Abdul Aziz , managed to convince both the British and the Germans that he was on their side . |
| 9 | Dundee were furious when Palace publicly stated that he was on their shopping list . |
| 10 | There 's usually a heavy-metal band sitting in one comer , their van 's broken down , you see , and they 're on their way to an important gig . |
| 11 | They 've done and they 're on their second thing . |
| 12 | He put it in gear and they were on their way . |
| 13 | The weather was giving promise of an early spring and they were on their way northwards , to Nahum 's father . |
| 14 | It was late afternoon and they were on their way back , swishing side by side through untouched snow down the last long sweeping run towards Rocamar . |
| 15 | But the cost of housing in the city means that it is beyond them , particularly if they 're on their own , young , single people . |
| 16 | Enemy heroes and wizards are also fair game if they are on their own . |
| 17 | If girls have support from their family and from their boyfriends , this can make an enormous difference to this experience , but if they are on their own , it can be very tough . |
| 18 | If they were on their beam-ends the really desperate might brave an audition with the dreaded Sherman Fisher . |
| 19 | But she was impatient of their return to the home she had created in endless sketches ; impatient too of Jacob 's incessant meetings with colleagues , with acolytes who sat transfixed , listening to him as if they were on their knees . |
| 20 | She said people seemed to get more lonely and depressed if they were on their own at night . |
| 21 | That was the day you was taken into hospital and she was in the bed , cos they were on their way down so we were changing the bloody beds ! |
| 22 | It takes place automatically when the clubhead is swung correctly to the top of the backswing , but the wrists do not cock fully until they are on their way back to the ball . |
| 23 | ( Another small trap containing a small band of musicians did n't catch them up until they were on their way back ! ) |
| 24 | NORTHERN Ireland 's reigning GP14 world champions , Paul and Mark Fekkes from Larne , will be missing this year 's first major event of the season — and it 's on their home waters . |
| 25 | They they would come in mate if it was on their own rate but as soon as you . |
| 26 | It was almost as if he were on their side . |
| 27 | It matters to the democracies because it is a battle about ideas they believe in , because it is on their doorstep , and because the rest of the world has been watching to see what they would do about it . |
| 28 | In the second account , Jesus told them to go and show themselves to the priests , and while they were on their way they discovered they were cured . |
| 29 | The beams had n't accelerated — not while they were on their journey from the lamp to herself . |
| 30 | And whilst He was on their wavelength , how about a spot of leave … ? |