Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | From what I had heard in advance , I expected to see nothing much more than four or five students on the course drinking regulated amounts of alcohol and then being subjected to a variety of tests that would show how their motor skills deteriorated . |
| 2 | The best way to grow these is to cut back hard each spring , to ensure a mass of young wands that will show off their winter bark . |
| 3 | Tank care : They are sensitive to moves and may go off their food . |
| 4 | Fortunately , from the point of view of Shirinskii-Shikhmatov , the newly appointed Curator of Moscow University was " a typical Nicholaevan general , the limited and ignorant V. I. Nazimov " , who took the view that students ought not to go into cafés to read papers and ought to do up their jackets and wear three-cornered hats and swords . |
| 5 | She did n't see Simone very often , but they had known each other from their schooldays and could pick up their friendship without the slightest difficulty . |
| 6 | The vast majority of farmers and landowners take an inordinate pride in the countryside and will show off their land to the occasional interested and respectful visitor . |
| 7 | Similarly , it is reasonable to suppose that many of the haves will be among the most ruthless of society , and will pass on their inhumane ethic to their children , thereby perpetuating it : is this really the future we wish for our species ? |
| 8 | His view is that consumers should be told the whole truth : ‘ If the public wants fish fingers made up of minced fish that 's OK , so long as they are told and can make up their own minds . |
| 9 | Even young people have ideas and can make up their own minds , and he did n't want to tell us what he thought we should do because it was our lives and he realised that . ’ |
| 10 | Men who were renowned working-class leaders but would beat up their wives if they got in late from one of our meetings . |
| 11 | Ron Birch , the protest leader , said they would accept the fence for the time being but would step up their campaign to protect the trees from a surprise attack by council workmen . |