Example sentences of "of [noun] who [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The debtor received legal advice from a firm of solicitors who rendered their bill on 31 July 1991 . |
| 2 | Erm there 's a sense in which y'know kind of when I go to concerts erm there 's y'know kind of there 's loads of blokes who take their shirts off and er wrestle around together and build human pyramids and do all that kind of , lots of body contact , lots of grasping one-another and all that kind of thing and yet erm y'know presumably to them , on the assumption that they 're heterosexual , as I assume probably they are , it 's it 's one of these things that erm y'know is kind of again maybe it even occurs at the same time as they 're quite homophobic in some cases . |
| 3 | This prohibition on other forms of lending meant that they could not issue cheque guarantee cards because they would then be obliged to honour cheques of depositors who overdrew their accounts thereby , in effect , giving them an overdraft . |
| 4 | Cowie claims the problem applies to about five per cent of drivers who neglect their company cars , occasionally for bizarre reasons . |
| 5 | We have to thank the somewhat substantial conquests of that outstanding French general for a high degree of uniformity in some aspects of European law , for his armies were followed by another army of administrators who imposed their own type of law as well as order wherever they conquered . |
| 6 | But the law did not take specific account of Arabs who left their homes for fear that Israeli forces might cause them harm — the reason most Arabs give for their sudden departure . |
| 7 | The weak point in the school is due to the folly of parents who remove their sons from the school at too early an age . |
| 8 | There undoubtedly are cases of parents who exaggerate their child 's ills , and who are determined to blame them on some physical cause , when family . |
| 9 | In the case of carers who have their own children this is easier to see than for the classic ( and disappearing ) case of the single daughter who was presumed to be childless ; although in that case the assumption in the past was that the single daughter would be rewarded in material terms through being the major beneficiary of her parents ' will , if they had money or property to bequeath . |
| 10 | Accommodation is a significant driving factor in the process of new dialect formation as described by Trudgill ( 1986 ) , but it is more easily studied at the level of individuals who adjust their language behaviour given a particular set of circumstances . |
| 11 | I have been sufficiently foolhardy to raise the issue from time to time with small groups of individuals who put their point of view to me when it is easy to be civilised and who propose arrangements whereby Sunday trading could be limited to certain times , to shops of a particular size , to the selling of particular goods or to certain types of shop . |
| 12 | It is possible to provide flexibility by alternative means using a group of workers who understand their role from the outset . |
| 13 | They still hoped in 1980 that the Palestinian issue — the demands of Palestinians who lost their homes in what is now Israel — could be dealt with as part of a general Arab–Israeli peace settlement , that the whole two and a half million Palestinian diaspora could be given a lump-sum , once-and-for-all payment of compensation . |
| 14 | FURY : Enraged Gail York screams at impassive Tjolle at yesterday 's stormy meeting of customers who lost their dream holidays |
| 15 | This is just one of hundreds of hedgehogs who owe their lives to the Vale Wildlife Rescue Centre in Evesham . |
| 16 | SCHEMES TO HELP THE DISABLED ENJOY THE COUNTRY , A REPRIEVE FOR SOWS , AND THE STORY OF VILLAGERS WHO BOUGHT THEIR OWN SHOP . |
| 17 | Discredited and abused , the Junta retreated before the French , first to Seville , then to Cadiz : there its members resigned , to be insulted by the ‘ patriots ’ of Cadiz who searched their baggage for stolen government funds and finally imprisoned them . |
| 18 | Will not the fact that the percentage of GPs who hold their own budgets still remains a very small fraction of the total number of GPs — even after today 's announcement — linked to the nature of the block contract system of an internal market , inevitably mean that , if we are to avoid a two-tier health service in terms of patient referrals , either all GPs must hold their own budgets or none should be budget holders ? |
| 19 | He was one of a number of witnesses who described their view of events leading up to the crash in Swindon last year . |
| 20 | Peasants were united in their hostility towards the small number of households who left their villages to set up separate homesteads under Stolypin 's provisions , and , above all , towards the nobility . |
| 21 | This was a small group of people who appointed their own chairman and secretary , and whose task was to see that the signs LADIES and GENTLEMEN were posted at all the appropriate places in the many buildings used by the conference . |
| 22 | of people who lose their jobs are back in work within three months is encouraging . |
| 23 | The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail . |
| 24 | So there are a lot of people who change their mind . |
| 25 | What about the sex-lives of people who admit their terror of physical contact with another human being ? |
| 26 | The Council of Mortgage Lenders announced on February 14th that the number of people who lost their homes last year because they could not keep up their mortgage payments nearly tripled from the year before . |
| 27 | The silence is deafening as usual — especially from the wanker bands who freely exploit CND logos and all manner of love and flowers imagery to cream in the profits on the back of people who put their fucking arses on the line for the self same cause . |
| 28 | The silence is deafening as usual — especially from the wanker bands who freely exploit CND logos and all manner of love and flowers imagery to cream in the profits on the back of people who put their fucking arses on the line for the self same cause . |
| 29 | ‘ A lot of people who love their jobs get sick . ’ |
| 30 | I certainly would n't claim that the loss-of-self aesthetic was valid outside of a probably quite limited , class- and gender-specific group of people who need their over-orderly thought patterns disrupted good'n'proper . |