Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] and [v-ing] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Churchill was contemptuous of Butler for occupying so marginal a Cabinet post — ‘ wiping the children 's noses and smacking their bottoms during war-time ’ — and exhorted him to steer well clear of the Public School question and , even more , of the religious settlement . |
| 2 | However , in enriching people 's lives and revolutionizing their thinking , perestroika had heightened social and economic expectations , and had unleashed sometimes conflicting political tendencies and social forces . |
| 3 | It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers , but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists ' houses and smashing their windows . |
| 4 | It invades privacy , with investigators spying on claimants ' homes and questioning their children ( Lister , 1973 ) . |
| 5 | To provide a professional service satisfying our clients ' needs and exceeding their expectations . |
| 6 | But under capitalism ( or any other class-divided society ) , other state functions are class-biased , serving capital owners ' interests and enhancing their ability to extract surplus value from workers . |
| 7 | If I was of a mind to stop washing and shaving and go live in a bus and drive around the country shitting in farmers ' fields and killing their sheep and being hassled by the pigs and pilloried by the Daily Star and generally being ‘ free ’ , this is the record I would choose to do it to . |