Example sentences of "their [det] [noun] [coord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 2 | That is what they like to do with their few acres and it is of some benefit to us . |
| 3 | ‘ No , I only see pictures , images , not their many causes or what follows because of it . |
| 4 | What we see today are mere shadows of their former selves and I shall be discussing later a number of these — Hull Fair which is now purely a funfair , the revived Masham Sheep Fair , the dying horse fairs at Lee Gap and Boroughbridge , and Yarm which is still proclaimed and has its high street occupied at one end by the showmen and the other by the gipsies . |
| 5 | Thus Johnson replicates these occupations ' concern with their own organisation and their rhetoric of the ignorance ( vulnerability ) of the client . |
| 6 | Well after the , the aircraft had actually er left the airport to go , be handed back to the RAF they said sometimes had to be serviced or final adjustments made and that 's what they used to go out there for but erm Helliwells was ver it was still , all through the war it was Helliwells aircraft they used to have their own lorries and everything and they used to erm , be under the auspices of the Air Ministry but it was very much a private company . |
| 7 | Obviously unions have their own traditions and their own ways of doing things in their own organizational structures . |
| 8 | An individual 's sexuality is their own affair and they will come to terms with it when they are ready to . |
| 9 | The free market principle and consumer sovereignty — that viewers and listeners are the best judges of their own interests and what they want to consume — are , therefore , the cornerstones of this particular approach to broadcasting . |
| 10 | They have their own rules and their own hierarchy . |
| 11 | Around 4.5 million people have a problem with their own drinking or someone in their family . |
| 12 | She had seen her friends with their own fathers and her more mature outlook had pinpointed the crime readily . |
| 13 | On the other hand , British political leaders gave priority to what Churchill had called their own dream and their own task . |
| 14 | All over the burrow , both the newcomers and those who were at home were accustoming themselves to each other in their own way and their own time ; getting to know what the strangers smelt like , how they moved , how they breathed , how they scratched , the feel of their rhythms and pulses . |
| 15 | The Euro Cities Conference was also important because it was the founding of that organisation formally and it was important to go there and say to the big monopoly that 's emerging between some of the Western European cities , the big six , Birmingham , Barcelona , Frankfurt , Rotterdam , Milan and Strasbourg , that they were n't gon na get it all their own way and they were n't going to monopolise those funds that were available for links with Eastern Europe . |
| 16 | There was that thing Mrs Hollidaye said , about how each person could only be brave in their own way and there was n't room on earth for everybody to be a hero . |
| 17 | Rubbing shoulders with this aggressively 20th century lifestyle , are the traditions of the majority indigenous Indian population , who forced out of their villages by drought and unemployment to seek work in the city , have established their own communities and their own markets where they come to buy and sell potatoes and cornmeal and where the Fortune-teller sits playing his chanrango while waiting for his next customer . |
| 18 | Programmed texts are excellent for individualised learning since not only can students work at their own pace but they receive immediate confirmation of the correctness of their response ( Finocchiaro 1968 ) . |
| 19 | And of course had their own camp and their own agent 's bungalow Lyness , down on the point . |
| 20 | Okay well we 're in a really bad situation , I mean we can achieve something at least and perhaps oh perhaps communism does n't work after all , they just seem to be doubting their own beliefs and what they 've read . |
| 21 | It would seem that the rationale behind this agenda is that ordinary people who make their own decisions , built on their own experience , who create their own pressure groups , their own education and their own work are dangerous and must be marginalised . |
| 22 | Everybody had their own problems and I had mine with losing two the two babies , I had mine wondering if I 'd lose another you see and that that was my particular worry at the time . |
| 23 | The Americans not only were spending heavily on their own forces but they also were determined to wring the maximum defence effort from European allies . |
| 24 | Many of the soldiers had brought their own suitcases and there were truckloads of supplies : not just food and bedding but barrack equipment , construction materials , even parts of prefabricated buildings . |
| 25 | The BBC local radio stations and the independent ions may also have their own newsrooms and broad-their own local news programmes in addition to the national news . |
| 26 | After a few weeks most boys bought their own pens and they were usually carried down the top of the right sock . |
| 27 | They had shot their own film and it somehow got mislaid . |
| 28 | I mean how do you protect Eurofighter two thousand in the absence of the medium range surface to air missile on the , I think you you told us about er the aircraft themselves as it were providing their own protection but what else ? |
| 29 | Many black adolescents I talked to were conscious of the differences between their own Creole and their parents ' . |
| 30 | They will then send out statements in their own name and your customers will pay them instead of you . |