Example sentences of "their [noun] [prep] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people have considerable leeway as to how they spend their money over and above basic subsistence requirements . |
| 2 | It was very noticeable , the difference in their attitudes before and after operations . |
| 3 | I spent the rest of 20th February , which happened to be my fortieth birthday , taking the girl students back to their homes in and around Rangoon . |
| 4 | There are also many examples in Hampshire , Sussex and Dorset , but their concentration in and around Cirencester is noteworthy . |
| 5 | Fixed-term contracts may make provision for employees on leave to have their passage(s) to and from home paid for by the employer . |
| 6 | The vestry of the City church of St Peter-le-Poore , Broad Street , also had this in mind and , as a result , officials were charging an additional £50 in 1838 for iron coffins deposited in their vaults over and above the standard fee of £1 15s. 2d. as against the extra £20 asked for a lead shell — with all fees double for non-parishioners . |
| 7 | SCOTLAND Yard yesterday issued descriptions of the two vans used in the IRA bombings in the City of London and Staples Corner bombs and appealed for information about their movements on and before last Friday . |
| 8 | When Reid ( 1986 ) identified seven causes of disruptive behaviour ( underachievement , the family , links between school and parents , peer group relationships , the gulf between the general public and teachers , schooling per se and teachers ) , I believe that he highlighted the very issues schools need to turn their attention to and over which they might have significant influence . |
| 9 | ‘ The five survivors in the CR 42 formation were swinging to their right towards and below me , which made it difficult to attack the three planes nearest me , so I chose the outer of the two planes on their left , laid off a deflection and opened fire again . |
| 10 | They were also asked to note details of the situations and their feelings before and after the bingeing . |
| 11 | He murdered at least a dozen young men before burying their bodies in and around his home . |
| 12 | Among the Arapesh , she found very few ‘ natural differences ’ in men 's and women 's behaviour , with neither sex exhibiting aggression : women did the heavy carrying ( because of their supposedly strong foreheads ) , and the men lay with their wives during and after childbirth , ‘ sharing ’ the pain and strain . |
| 13 | The more a person 's mind is kept active , the more they will enjoy their life into and in old age . |
| 14 | The workers were hard-living and hard-drinking men , who left their cottage homes in the valleys on Monday mornings and did not return until Saturday nights , because their journeys to and from work were hard and hazardous , though short . |
| 15 | Some sample at times which fit in with their journeys to and from home or the laboratory . |
| 16 | Resentment was always present when parents felt either that there was a lack of openness or frankness on the part of the professionals or administrators , or that they were being coerced , or that their concern for and about their child was being called into question . |
| 17 | They have been challenged to complete their journey to and from Beaune , France , by the shortest possible route . |
| 18 | Women walking their children to and from school will talk of the trials and tribulations of married life as part of their everyday conversation . |
| 19 | One of Europe 's most important wetlands , it is home to rare species such as the imperial eagle and the lynx , and provides a vital staging post where birds rest on their migrations to and from Africa . |
| 20 | Everybody keeps their clothes on and in any case the French were not then , or now , a people to blanche at mere nudity . |
| 21 | Local opinion on how the pupils look and behave on their way to and from school will be another indicator . ’ |
| 22 | The Union Company and Donald Currie Mailboats stopped in Madeira on their way to and from South Africa . |
| 23 | The answer lies in the British empire ; to be precise , a transit camp at Deolali , near Bombay , where British troops went out of their minds with boredom on their way to and from the service of the Raj . |
| 24 | Local companies have been persuaded to foot the bill for specially-developed breathing masks now worn by children on their way to and from school . |
| 25 | In the last three months alone , Customs and Excise officials have netted large caches of drugs on their way to and from the province . |
| 26 | Jailed for life in 1983 for six murders he claimed to have killed at least ten other young men mutilating the bodies and dumping their remains in and around his home in North London . |
| 27 | He sat back , studying the two men for a time , unhappy that he had not been privy to their conversations before and after this important meeting . |