Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |
| 2 | Although a lot of his story is still relevant to us cos you can see it in today 's life when people stand up for themselves or stand up for their faith or what they believe in and you look around you , you can see violence and being done to them . |
| 3 | Interior Minister Horacio Serpa Uribe on April 17 confirmed that the government would not negotiate with the drug cartels or give in to their violence and would continue the policy of extradition . |
| 4 | This is the time when most parents retire to a comfortable chair or get on with their other jobs . |
| 5 | He says they should n't walk to school or go home on their own . |
| 6 | Industry observers and rival candle manufacturers are withholding judgement on whether the new management will transform Price 's into a viable company , or end up on their faces in a puddle of waxy goo . |
| 7 | A major advantage of the above examples is that they do not require participants to give up their jobs or move away from their homes and families to undertake training . |
| 8 | In such cases the extended family begins to look quite complex , but it is still essentially based upon the original pair , and when young do become fully adult they are driven away or wander off on their own to form separate pairs . |
| 9 | Many women , confronted by Kohlbergian questionnaires , ask for , or contribute out of their own imagination , concrete detail which might help them resolve the moral dilemma with which they are presented . |
| 10 | That 's why hundreds of top companies now offer cheap hotel breaks when you buy their goods or sign up for their services . |
| 11 | The therapist 's task is to be sensitive to these differences and work with the parents to devise strategies of change that fit in with their cultural viewpoint . |
| 12 | There are enough end-users that expect more from their manufacturers than just supply of hardware ’ . |
| 13 | Small whales and dolphins are not only caught in nets that are actively fishing , but also in set-nets that break away from their anchors , lost or discarded trawl nets , and , in particular , lost portions of the enormous oceanic drift-nets , which become ‘ ghost nets ' ’ that float in the ocean and continue to catch fish and other marine life . |
| 14 | The focus will be upon systems of morality that vary greatly in their images of manhood and styles of manhood . |
| 15 | Species of shrews that have poor eyesight and rely on established pathways to find their way about their territory often fall victim to pits that open up in their vicinity , running straight in without seeing them . |
| 16 | Denofa wanted to achieve an edge over rivals by marketing its Solidox brand in tubes that stand upright on their caps without outer cartons . |
| 17 | I do not see Hoffman 's hesitancies of speech , his throatbound voice that has to struggle past a colony of frogs , his eyes that crouch nervously in their sockets , as a proof of consequential ratiocination going on inside his head . |
| 18 | And our other project will probably be in Malaysia , where we 're hoping to be able to fund lawyers to go and visit the indigenous tribes , and educate them about the Malaysian process of law , because at the moment I 'm sure you 'll know that various indigenous people have been blockading the logging roads that go on to their demarcated territory . |
| 19 | Even if there is a special sense in which cows are ‘ friends ’ of grasses , natural selection does not favour individual grass plants that go out of their way to be eaten by cows ! |
| 20 | Organizations that stay close to their customers ' needs have a competitive edge . |
| 21 | In the first place the number of States that work diligently on their accident investigation responsibilities is regrettably rather small , and although their delegates may approach a divisional meeting with the same view of the agenda items their ideas can be , and all too frequently are , frustrated by States which make little or no contribution in this field of activity . |
| 22 | There is , however , clear evidence of the existence of both literary anti-clericalism and the corporate anti-clericalism of specific interest groups with a power and influence well beyond their numbers ( see Chapters 4 and 8 ) . |
| 23 | A new edition of the JCT Prime Cost Contract was published and the Tribunal continued to keep under review the Standard Forms of Contract and Sub-Contract together with their ancillary documents , issuing amendments , variants and re-editions . |
| 24 | In their places ‘ Spirit Of Eden ’ offered spontaneous improvisation , yearning wails of pain and desire , pregnant pauses , psychedelic meanderings , mournful strings , discordant guitar feedback and all sorts of other lost-in-my-muse soul searching noises that tend to make record company executives twitch their fingers inside their shirt collars and shift about in their leather swivel chairs a lot . |
| 25 | They do not fit the conventional academic system in which there is seen to be little alternative provision for their needs , so they opt out altogether from involvement in school and wait resentfully for their official release at 16 . |
| 26 | Without proper treatment and support , many end up homeless , unemployed for long periods , and cut off from their families . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the Central Powers were virtually besieged and cut off from their new ally , Turkey , which had entered the war in October 1914 . |
| 28 | They drop off a van load of specials in an area and walk round with their helmets on |
| 29 | During the academic year , overseas students need to have access to a wide range of information and support in order to adjust to a different culture and benefit fully from their education . |
| 30 | During the academic year , overseas students need to have access to a wide range of information and support in order to adjust to a different culture and benefit fully from their education . |