Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | who pity my grasp of their mother tongue . |
| 2 | But now she 's studying at Oxford , the men want her talent in their team . |
| 3 | But if Japan 's workers lose their devotion to their jobs , the bosses will have to pay attention . |
| 4 | In the latter case , an exact equivalent to grammar in linguistics is unlikely to be found , since , as noted earlier , objects gain their effect from their comparative lack of abstraction and the various bridging functions they can thereby perform . |
| 5 | The applause is comfortingly distant , Kristin Hersh 's vocals are reassuringly muffled — a sure sign this is an ‘ authentic ’ recording — and the three Muses rumble their way through their career from ‘ Hate My Way ’ to ‘ Fire Pile ’ , sounding suitably tired and emotional come the close . |
| 6 | A service system comprises a network of professionals and/or volunteers who accept responsibility for providing assistance to vulnerable people to meet their individual needs and develop their potential without their being unnecessarily isolated or excluded from the community . |
| 7 | They eat their prey at their roosts , littering the cave floor with the broken up remains of their meals . |
| 8 | After the performance , most people had the same idea : make their way from their actually more but socially less exalted levels of red and orange and purple down to the pink VIP level . |
| 9 | Hares , on the other hand , are active in a crepuscular pattern — ie , they restrict their running between their feeding sites to dawn and dusk . |
| 10 | The prime need for family members is to attend the appropriate Family Fellowship and focus their attention upon their own recovery . |
| 11 | We believe that the children of all lone parents can best be helped by po policies which support their commitment to their family and their children and pathways out of poverty should be built which ensure that all families living in poverty have the chance to change their situation . |
| 12 | Nor , despite the merit of the achievement , did the Ryder Cup team get the vote when the Golf Writers ’ Association announce their selection for their annual trophy this year . |
| 13 | The chant is certain to be sustained until the International Board announce their decision at their annual meeting in Auckland next April . |
| 14 | But they never quibbled ; put their money alongside their confidence and took the silverware home to Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | Hungarians put their surname before their christian names . |
| 16 | And they put their answer on their form . |
| 17 | Put your hand inside their pocket and push the rope up the sleeve as far as you can . |
| 18 | So , please do n't assume that teachers have nothing else to do but give lectures and await your arrival in their rooms . |
| 19 | Likert 's conclusion was that the style of supervision is more important in achieving better results than any more general factors such as job interest , loyalty towards the company etc. ( however , it remains true that employees must receive rewards ( pay etc ) which give them compensation for their efforts . |
| 20 | They congregate in favoured places such as Quendale Bay , Ronas Voe and north of Hascosay , as they have done for generations , and here they complete their moult into their smart summer dress , to replace the drab dark grey and white . |
| 21 | Although Swim hail from Dublin you will only be able to infer their Celtic roots — they 're not a band that wear their heart on their sleeve . |
| 22 | Although Swim hail from Dublin you will only be able to infer their Celtic roots — they 're not a band that wear their heart on their sleeve . |
| 23 | McDonald 's believe that they owe their success to their management training programme . |
| 24 | These are protein molecules , which owe their specificity to their amino acid sequence , and hence ultimately to the genes . |
| 25 | Teachers reaffirm their commitment to their pupils and schools . |
| 26 | International Day — the first day that local schools begin their support of their adopted nation in the ‘ Welcome to the World ’ project . |
| 27 | Is he aware that the warmth of his reception was genuine , as the farmers very much appreciate his understanding of their difficulties with the planners and with marketing ? |
| 28 | It is wonderful to lose yourself for a little while and you do meet such nice Medau people who do n't mind if you ca n't do it quite right and nearly drop your club on their foot ! |
| 29 | But these classes are the ones that run our society for their own benefit . |
| 30 | Employed married women tend to delay their first and second child , compress their childbearing into their late 20s and the second five years of their married life , and avoid third and subsequent births ( compared to housewives ) ( ni Bhrölchain 1986b ) . |