Example sentences of "[prep] their [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took some time for their masters to curb them . |
| 2 | A week after they left to join a transport at Warsaw , permission came through for their parents to follow them ‘ for domestic service ’ . |
| 3 | And if they move , it will be harder for their relatives to visit them . |
| 4 | They therefore wanted to encourage dialogue and to provide members with a range of objectives for their boards to help them establish a plan of development . |
| 5 | The directors , who met weekly , acted as a house committee , and the minutes of their meetings show them to have been diligent in pursuing the objectives set out in the preamble to the Act of Parliament which had brought them into existence . |
| 6 | Some live within plants , stimulating the tissues of their hosts to provide them with custom-built homes by growing special galls , hollow stems or thorns with swollen bases . |
| 7 | The Cent-Gardes , also created in 1854 , with their magnificent blue and silver uniforms , were picked for their stature — the minimum height was six feet — and their looks , since many of their duties involved them in Court ceremonial , including the lining of the stairways at the Tuileries during balls and official receptions . |
| 8 | After a long descent the shaft widened a little , and the light of their torches showed them the interior of the mine , the southern end of the tunnellings . |
| 9 | The next paragraph states ‘ The scissor-like cutting action of their teeth enables them to reduce a full-sized human being to a mere skeleton in about four minutes ! ’ |
| 10 | Facially the two men were very different , Kustow 's face blunt , Lever 's hawkish , but the similarity of dress and the starkness of their haircuts made them seem like brothers , or members of some strange cult . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , no record seems to have survived of the names of all those who signed the document : in an interview with the Despatch on 1 September , one of their leaders said they were mostly from printing offices which had not agreed to the men 's memorial , that is on the whole the smaller offices . |
| 12 | Two squads of Fists in full battle armour crowded the fore of the compartment , standing rigidly , gripping their boltguns and chainswords , the magnetics of their boots locking them to the cleated deck . |
| 13 | It is puzzling why the C&G 's managing director Andrew Longhurst feels he needs to pay Guardian members 4 per cent of their balances to get them to agree to the merger . |
| 14 | They had got used to living in Brighton , and saw no reason to uproot themselves , but one of their tutors took them aside and said , ‘ Look , this place has n't got a proper research library , and it 's not going to get one . |
| 15 | However , the less-committed remainder of their colleagues accused them of ‘ selling out the department ’ and the resulting tension forced the community police officers to resign ( ibid.:74 ) . |
| 16 | Because the majority of college lecturers are probably afraid that they might lose their students if they abandoned lectures whilst the rest of their colleagues retained them as the primary teaching method . |
| 17 | When the backs of the person 's legs are against the toilet bowl or bed , arrange their clothing and push on the front of their hips to help them sit down . |
| 18 | The warriors hurled themselves at the heads or horns of their animals to make them lie down . |
| 19 | And one of their floors have they made into toyland ? |
| 20 | This does not mean that they did not liaise with other services for almost ail clients , merely that for only a third of their clients did they obtain or increase the services of other providers . |
| 21 | The parents mouth the little larvae out of their shells to move them to clean site . |
| 22 | Erm , that is kids may express curiosity , kids may even be doing things that imply they 're getting some sort of pleasure out of their bodies y'know they may be , as we used to call it when I was a child , playing with themselves , um they may be erm doing various things that er that give them some sort of bodily pleasure . |
| 23 | You have to get people out from behind their desks to see them clearly . |
| 24 | The green men in their cloaks of leaves and branches then discovered them , and came down to the beach and circled Dulé and his companions where they lay prone , and shook their fronds and squatted on their haunches and kicked their legs and tossed their heads and slapped palm to thigh , in order to rally them and send them off again ; pouring spirits and water into their faces to invigorate them , beating out a rhythm with their feet . |
| 25 | She wanted to prod them and gaze into their eyes to check they were n't real . |
| 26 | They would ask me into their classes to watch them teach ; they gave me time for interviews ; they allowed me into staff meetings and departmental meetings and I at various points in my research I erm attempted to feed back to them some of the material that I was coming up with , and we would have meetings to discuss this and I would erm use those meetings then to refine my ideas . |
| 27 | They asked me into their classes to watch them teach , they gave me time for interviews , they allowed me into staff meetings and departmental meetings and I erm at various points in my research I attempted to feed back to them some of the material I was coming up with , and we would have meetings to discuss this . |
| 28 | Their mothers , lifting the heavy vessels onto their heads to carry them home , clicked at the young ones ' improvidence , as they splashed and squirted spray at one another by thumbing the tap 's mouth — mistakenly , or so they cried out when scolded . |
| 29 | with their sticks to keep them steady . |
| 30 | The too-small chairs , the miniature tables , the intimate cherished objects temporarily abandoned by teachers and pupils , as though awaiting term-time and contact with their owners to stop them seeming ridiculous and warm them once again into significance , intruded upon his concentration . |