Example sentences of "to their [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But again , she 's making good eye contact , both of them only let their eyes flick down to their notes to remind themselves of the next point they want to make . |
| 2 | The lowly ‘ polis ’ , with little or no power in the system , deplores this situation and complains of its escalation , while the detectives moan about the incompetence of the uniform ‘ wollies ’ who never get close enough to their prisoners to extract their own ‘ coughs ’ or admissions and who fail to understand that the system largely depends on the ability of the department to manipulate a statistical norm in detected crimes . |
| 3 | The temptation to their crews to barter their duty free stores for sterling constituted a high revenue risk at times . |
| 4 | Mirror readers leapt to their phones to back our coverage — and blast the duchess . |
| 5 | On occasions in area offices , residential homes , day centres , as well as in family homes , staff may find themselves faced with aggressive and violent responses to their offers of help or to their attempts to fulfil their statutory or professional responsibilities to intervene . |
| 6 | They did pressure me quite a lot about how I looked , but I never gave in to their attempts to convert me to pink ; I wanted to look different , and in the main I was quite happy with my image . |
| 7 | She pulled out a chair and positioned it between Karelius and Moreau , who struggled awkwardly to their feet to assist her . |
| 8 | It was when the community of Muslims had progressed to the second caliph — another companion of Muhammad 's named Omar ibn al-Khattab — that Omar 's Arab followers , already having to confront the resistance of the Byzantine emperor to their efforts to expand their area of influence northward into Palestine and Syria , found their drive for conquest opposed by the Persian empire . |
| 9 | Runners are more conservative , instead of their heads they look to their shoes to give them the competitive edge . |
| 10 | Both will finish their courses in September and will return to their countries to apply what they have learnt . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , significant groups of intellectuals and artists , often in a somewhat modish , self-conscious way which attracted derision in the press , seemed to move away from identification with their society , so alien to their instincts did what they saw as the unacceptable , philistine face of Thatcherism appear to be . |
| 12 | The papers received their photo of the band with Best but also scurried to their files to find their own action shots . |
| 13 | NEWCASTLE United are looking to their supporters to ease their mounting financial burden . |
| 14 | His team-mates Andre Agassi , Pete Sampras and John McEnroe rushed on court and lifted him on to their shoulders to carry him to the sidelines . |
| 15 | As Christians , the awareness that Christ is the source of our love and significance frees us to serve our partner and staff to their weaknesses to help them become the man or woman God intended them to be . |
| 16 | They took assets on to their books assuming they would sell them at a profit shortly afterwards . |