Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [verb] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three of the agencies mentioned in the last paragraph have recently been the subject of central limitations to their activities or curbs upon their freedom ! |
| 2 | In contrast to the last comment , a metallurgist , philosopher and zoologist all noted significant changes in the norms or emphases within their disciplines : |
| 3 | All Indian weavers , whether employed in large manufactories or working at their own family looms , are under contract to one of the major distributors , who tell them what sizes , colours and designs to weave . |
| 4 | They are covered with poisonous hairs or have within their bodies a particularly acrid-tasting substance . |
| 5 | Just as young children will cry and remonstrate or say ‘ do n't leave me ’ , so the adult may use just the same words or convey by their behaviour that this is their worry . |
| 6 | An issue that typically divides them — and caused the largest opposition group , the Democratic Party , to split at its congress last month — is whether to compromise with the Communists or to work for their complete removal . |
| 7 | The removal of this will mean that thousands of residents will be unable to obtain the legal assistance in matters like arranging family visits or to look into their own circumstances . |
| 8 | The Broadcasting Bill removes constraints on European companies wanting to own television companies or bid on their own for a Channel 3 franchise . |
| 9 | She would like to hear from mothers about experiences , such as predicting their babies needs or knowing of their babies feelings without being present . |
| 10 | ‘ … one who deals with goods at the request of the person who has the actual custody of them , in the bona fide belief that the custodian is the true owner , should be excused for what he does if the act is of such a nature as would be excused if done by the authority of the person in possession , if he was a finder of the goods or entrusted with their custody … . |
| 11 | Each had also a band of black linen with a white stripe running through it tied round their upper arms , wound round their helmets or dangling from their sword hilts . |
| 12 | On 26 October they ordered the sheriffs of Shropshire , Hampshire , Yorkshire and Huntingdonshire to make public proclamations forbidding anyone to make waste , sales or gifts of wood , assarts or purprestures in their woods within the royal forest by reason of the perambulations , until further orders . |
| 13 | that section engineers at M S four level er acted as project coordinators or looked after their own element of the |
| 14 | Most smallholders will grow enough for their own use in the vegetable garden or plant a few rows with the swedes or mangolds in their roots field . |
| 15 | However , since not all antislavery public meetings were under the aegis of local societies or linked to their establishment , the fact that some abolitionist groups were chary of a ‘ populist ’ style of activity before the early 1830s does not exclude democratic implications from all antislavery usages of meetings . |
| 16 | Follow the production of milk from the sheep , either grazing contentedly in the fields or relaxing in their sheds , through the milking parlour , to the finished products of yogurt and ice-cream in the Farm Shop . |
| 17 | Some people feel restricted in their choices or limited to their present station in life , because their birthcharts declare that they are unlikely to better themselves . |
| 18 | At no time should you ever share this knowledge with other residents or talk about their affairs , unless it is relevant to improving their care or reviewing it with other members of staff concerned . |
| 19 | How many people do you know who never show on their faces or reveal in their words what they truly feel ? |
| 20 | I watch the men and women as they crowd along the streets or sit in their cars and vans and buses and trucks , and their freedom seems inestimably precious , exotic and vicariously intoxicating . |
| 21 | Then there are cyclists with all kinds of strange burdens strapped to their backs or tied to their carriers , and teams of horses and donkeys ( and sometimes bullocks ) pulling carts . |
| 22 | It is unrealistic to assume that all the Palestinians currently living in the Arab states , whether still in refugee camps or integrated into their host society , could or would want to return to a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian state . ’ |
| 23 | After all , not many business executives or lawyers write satirical novels or plays about their own profession . |
| 24 | Anyone offered cheap tyres or know of their whereabouts are asked to contact the detectives at Dunganon 52525 . |