Example sentences of "for [pers pn] [prep] their [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said but unfortunately because he 's boisterous , which he is and because it 's easier for them with their numbers to let him just get away with it or say oh Martin go outside we ca n't , you know , then then he was n't learning |
| 2 | I used to do all their printing for them for their photographers . . |
| 3 | Beyond that lay the Germans ' barbed wire , and beyond that still the Germans , waiting for them in their trenches . |
| 4 | We pray for them in their studies . |
| 5 | Most gliding instructors are aware of these problems and watch out for them in their students . |
| 6 | About 60 per cent of self-poisoners take psychotropic drugs that have been prescribed for them in their overdoses ( Hawton et al. 1977 ) . |
| 7 | On their births a trust a fund of tens of thousands of pound was started for them in their names by their grandmother . |
| 8 | In many cases companies might find alternative work for their employees , or even create new jobs for them within their capabilities . |
| 9 | Similarly it was in a private letter that a Cornish mine agent wrote in 1793 : The common tinners continue to be very refractory and insolent : many of them refuse to work , and have not gone underground for three weeks past — They have no cause for it for their wages have been rather too high lately than otherwise ; the consequence has been too much brandy drinking and other bad practices . |
| 10 | They influenced kings , plotted for and against the crown , and sometimes paid for it with their lives . ’ |
| 11 | Most college teachers are more down-to-earth : solid citizens and safe , intellectual craft workers , who mostly know and love their subject well enough to wish to share their enthusiasm for it with their students . |
| 12 | Even if this degree of interpenetration is peculiar to the USA , policy-makers in other countries must allow for it in their dealings with US policy-makers . |
| 13 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |