Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In actual practice you could find an analysis that very often the things that have been repressed have not been repressed in the sense that they 've been totally submerged from your consciousness and totally forgotten without any trace , but what often happens is they 've become isolated or , or divorced from their context in your memory . |
| 2 | It is not caused by the absence of encouragement or love , nor prevented or helped by their presence . |
| 3 | Gender is also a particularly important factor in determining whether or not individuals are supported or prevented in their attempts to live independently . |
| 4 | The Pack Meeting Hall was now fairly bulging with Christmas gifts they had made or bought , or begged from their mothers . |
| 5 | Coupled with under-funding , this made commercial software development unattractive and many of the major educational publishing companies such as Heinemann , Longman , Oxford University Press , and Macmillan , who had initially invested heavily in software development , eventually retrenched or withdrew from their activities . |
| 6 | One occasionally has a glimpse of Green 's neighbours after he has been with them , or heard of their deaths , when he liked to write their obituaries . |
| 7 | They , and those who have not cohabited , may cross the threshold into marriage without much of a backward glance , feeling sure they have ‘ arrived ’ , thankful for having arrived , found their mate , achieved their haven , caught up with their friends , pleased or escaped from their parents . |
| 8 | And people lived or died by their ability to , to produce a competent result at the end of the day . |
| 9 | The hills themselves looked asleep , the heather glowed dust-blue in the hazy light , and the people , after a night of little sleep and hours of walking and standing , now looked stunned as they sat on the grassy banks , leaned on dykes , or lay on their backs in the hayfields , munching oatcakes and drinking the last of their water . |
| 10 | In the first place , the universalising tendency of earlier feminist theories has been challenged by those ignored or negated by their categories — working class women , women of colour , lesbians , third world women and others . |
| 11 | Those ladies slim and brave enough to wear the high fashion were ethereal in gauzy dresses that clung to their bodies as they moved . |
| 12 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
| 13 | there and perhaps coming on to the Residents ' Association point that made in their proof , that our forecasts actually show that on balance , er er there would be an increase in flow in fact on the on that route as it approaches the A sixty one . |
| 14 | Behind that , among the bogs of the river-plain , was the wide crossing that led to their station last night and then , further north , to Dunblane , where their base was . |
| 15 | They cursed the trailing brambles that caught at their ankles and set up shouts as rabbits and pheasants fled into the darkness before them . |
| 16 | Speakers were given a score of one point for each one of these features that occurred in their speech , irrespective of how many times it occurred . |
| 17 | The lines that radiated from their corners did nothing to detract from their brilliance , but in some curious way made her look approachable , despite her immense style . |
| 18 | This situation has left literature teachers with the sense that compared with their colleagues they are not masters in their own house , since they are dependent for their material on a product manufactured elsewhere by shifty and unreliable suppliers . |
| 19 | Morals began to lose their meaning and people said anything that came into their heads , the sort of thing that used to appear in books as a row of stars or be written down on slips of paper and handed to judges in court . |
| 20 | And towards morning , when the snow turned again to rain , the whole hillside under which they were camped had become furrowed and scoured by a hundred brooks scurrying and leaping downwards into the river valley , till the level of the flood crept up towards their outposts , and its tributaries carried down into it everything movable that came in their way , including some of the hobbled horses , and the wreckage of tents , and drowned men . |
| 21 | ‘ A Momentary Lapse Of Reason ’ was their first experiment together , a back-to-basics show of rock strength that borrowed from their past in a noble effort to face the future head on . |
| 22 | He followed up his earlier limited charge of praemunire against selected churchmen with a similar charge against the whole of the English clergy , accusing them of exercising a spiritual jurisdiction that conflicted with their duty as his subjects . |
| 23 | Some donors might have great works of art which they 've lost interest in , or that belonged to their father or their grandfather . |
| 24 | One application that benefited from their use is given by Rabiner and Levinson ( 1985 ) for speech recognition of flight reservation information . |
| 25 | Such , too , was the theme that intensified in their fiction towards middle age , which may be called the agony of a lost Eden . |
| 26 | Nearby ewes then ran away , followed by lambs that scampered after their mothers . |
| 27 | Wives were not unaware of the pressures experienced by men at the workplace and on the whole tended to accept the burden of domestic responsibilities that fell to their lot , and which , if left undone or mismanaged , might provoke some kind of outburst from their husbands . |
| 28 | The dependency perspective focused attention on this unequal relationship between , on the one hand , mighty TNCs and the powerful home countries that looked after their interests all over the globe and , on the other , the relatively weak and powerless Third World countries in which they were involved . |
| 29 | ‘ has liberated English public law from the fetters that the courts had theretofore imposed upon themselves so far as determinations of inferior courts and statutory tribunals were concerned , by drawing esoteric distinctions between errors of law committed by such tribunals that went to their jurisdiction , and errors of law committed by them within their jurisdiction . |
| 30 | ‘ has liberated English public law from the fetters that the courts had theretofore imposed upon themselves so far as determinations of inferior courts and statutory tribunals were concerned , by drawing esoteric distinctions between errors of law committed by such tribunals that went to their jurisdiction , and errors of law committed by them within their jurisdiction . |