Example sentences of "and [pron] [noun pl] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately his failing health meant he could n't visit much in recent years , and my folks spent their holidays elsewhere , so the house had become neglected . |
| 2 | ‘ In the main , the church and its leaders drew their importance from the support they gave to the existing powers and from their multiple involvements in education , social welfare and administration . ’ |
| 3 | The homes of this minority tribe are built over the water on stilts , its vegetable fields float on the lake 's surface and its fishermen propel their long narrow boats with a unique leg-rowing motion that has made them famous . |
| 4 | The software 's called ’ Bankchek ’ and its developers say their survey of over 100 small businesses reveals repeated slip-ups by bank staff . |
| 5 | This left its mark , with squabblings about the will and its terms taking their toll in many bitter arguments . |
| 6 | During the weekend of the Windsor fire , she and her sons spent their last weekend there together — so Diana could pack up her belongings and move them all back to London . |
| 7 | Where Richardson wrote his novels , and his heroines their letters , in little closets removed from the public eye , Jane Austen and her heroines spend their time in parlours which are anything but private . |
| 8 | That means that their motives are clean and their actions represent their personal best . |
| 9 | Some members of Red , Yeb , Baz , Jasper , girlies and an assorted selection of strangers and their managers take their seats and we pull dreamily away from the pavement . |
| 10 | But the communicators have just as many , and their prejudices affected their accounts of the campaign . |
| 11 | Again , as all viewers of the BBC 's television comedy Yes , Minister are aware , the state bureaucracies and their members have their own organizational and personal interests to pursue which are often at variance with those of their supposed political masters , which in turn are not invariably identical with those of the electorate or of any coalition of interest groups . |
| 12 | There were technicalities to handle and , above all , the management of time was important while heads and their deputies led their colleagues through new patterns of requirement . |
| 13 | Small boys spat down on him from the safety of high windows and their mothers clenched their buttocks and turned away their glowing cheeks . |
| 14 | Ideologies of management are needed to buttress a system of inequalities in organizations and the major social injustice of the ‘ daily routine of men and women wasting their lives and their intellects to gain their livelihoods ’ ( Salaman 1980b , p. 1 ) . |
| 15 | It is an all-purpose complaint , one that can be invoked by a frustrated middle class to express its dashed expectations in the wake of Brazil 's decanonized ‘ Economic Miracle ’ , by the urban working class to express their condition of relative powerlessness , and by an impoverished class of displaced sugar-cane cutters and their families to express their hunger . |
| 16 | Schmidt , Hunter and their associates applied their new techniques to data from many samples drawn from a large number of different occupations . |
| 17 | Apart from the fact that they are not organising the elections — this is being done by South Africa 's AG but only monitoring them , South Africa and their supporters started their campaign months ago . |
| 18 | But given the reluctance of businessmen , their legal advisers , and their legislatures to modify their national law in favour of harmonization measures it is perhaps worthwhile restating the advantages of harmonization . |
| 19 | And because they , too , are prisoners they detest the convicts , and their children ape their elders and shout ‘ Fascists ! ’ as the zeks walk in their guarded column between the Zone and the Factory . |
| 20 | Had he been one , he would know that a large part of the duties of anyone holding my office is to meet business men and their representatives to discuss their problems and concerns . |
| 21 | Eastern Europe 's Warsaw Pact commanders and their subordinates employ their initiative to press for more challenging roles , not less . |
| 22 | This was accompanied by a late acknowledgement that it was difficult or impossible to direct education into new pathways while teachers and their unions retained their power . |
| 23 | * Westbrook and his collaborators interpreted their results as supporting Wagner 's account of latent inhibition , arguing that prolonged experience of the stimulus in the context might be necessary for the formation of the association on which long-term latent inhibition is held to depend . |
| 24 | Probably this accounts for the greater part of the increase in sede vacante presentations made by the king , but he and his clerks pushed their claims to the limit . |
| 25 | Diana Lanchester did n't catch up with Artemis and her stepmother until Lord Deverill and his huntsmen cast their hounds into a field of kale for the first draw . |
| 26 | Tony and his friends made their way to the bar — homing pigeons coasting along on the wings of thirst . |
| 27 | She and Marie-Claire and Monique sat , heavy , sulky , self-absorbed , graceless whilst Paul-Marie darted and chattered like a squirrel after the scaly balls and his parents sipped their white port and admired him . |
| 28 | The wife spent her time running one of the hotels , while the husband and his brothers devoted their skills to property speculation with considerable success . |
| 29 | Ponyboy and his brothers have their own gang of friends . |
| 30 | Toad and his pals have their own magic world and maybe they should stay there . |