Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish Division look forward to your company at Peebles and the National President , Steve and his lady , Doreen , hope to reciprocate the kindness and hospitality shown to them during their year . |
| 2 | Mr Burns said he did not speak to them about their past life because he felt that would have been ‘ insensitive ’ . |
| 3 | I think there 's always a danger of being a bit simplistic about children who I think have a right to their own family , and that does n't just mean parents , it means grandparents , people who can talk to them about their past , the past of the family . |
| 4 | Now I never if I was going through a train or going down a platform , and there were two or three carriage women carriage cleaners you know , I would n't speak to them about their work . |
| 5 | But I would n't talk to them about their work . |
| 6 | The A&R people will listen to them at their own convenience , which may be at midnight after a gig or on a flight across the Atlantic . |
| 7 | There is of course a much heard debate about the fees and the services of the church , with people holding different views about whether or not there should be a charge for functions like funerals , but for the moment we are more concerned with how the ‘ consumers ’ experience the way the church 's representative reaches out to them at their time of crisis . |
| 8 | THE Hampshire County Youth Choir were formed last October to give young people aged 15 to 20 years the opportunity to take part in a higher standard of choral singing than perhaps would be open to them at their schools or colleges . |
| 9 | Honesty and courtesy were to be their guides when phoning potential customers , with no misleading statements , exaggerations or partial truths , and no unsolicited calls made to them at their place of work . |
| 10 | They knew that the voice that spoke to them with their own voice was not their own but the voice of a being that had its abode in a world of light . |
| 11 | Underline the need to maximise the short time available to them to their best advantage . |
| 12 | Although it may at first feel as though you will always be the new member of staff , or that you will never stop asking questions , most returners express appreciation and gratitude for the support and practical help offered by colleagues , and for the warm welcome extended to them on their return . |
| 13 | He could always talk to them on their level without ever sounding patronising , as most adults tend to do . ’ |
| 14 | To them on their own terms ? |
| 15 | What happens to them on their retirement from their working life ? |
| 16 | Our grateful thanks go to them for their support of the Association . |
| 17 | The Fund is very grateful to them for their help . |
| 18 | The purpose of the provisions relating to copyright is to ensure that both composer and publisher receive the reward which is due to them for their work . |
| 19 | In 1815 he returned to Karlovci to collect material for a second song book , which later inspired a glowing review from Jakob Grimm , in which he compared the Serbian love songs to Solomon 's Song of Songs and wrote that the ‘ Serbs are by virtue of their language … the most blessed with poems , songs and stories , and it looks as if the good God had , by this rich gift of popular poetry , wished to make up to them for their lack of books . ’ |
| 20 | The Girl was explaining how she thought perhaps she ought to make some kind of thanks to them for their hospitality . |
| 21 | The Institute is grateful to them for their loyal service which in Ian Shaw 's case totalled nearly twenty five years . |
| 22 | I am taking this opportunity to pay tribute to them for their dedication , time and support over the years . |
| 23 | We 're in touch with them every day , they refuse to leave and we 're very grateful to them for their efforts . |
| 24 | The players have been brilliant and all credit to them for their consistency . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The idea was n't greeted with much enthusiasm at first , ’ he says , ‘ But we continued plugging away at the distillers and mounted a back-selling campaign to the airline industry , pointing out what a boon light-weight ‘ Melinar ’ containers would be to them for their in-flight miniatures and duty-free supplies . |
| 26 | All students from overseas are encouraged and helped to play a full part in the life of the University community and to take every advantage of the academic and recreational facilities available to them throughout their periods of study . |
| 27 | All students from overseas are encouraged and helped to play a full part in the life of the University community and to take every advantage of the academic and recreational facilities available to them throughout their periods of study . |
| 28 | The delicacy of the children seems to have been passed on to them by their mother , and in any case a succession of pregnancies had very probably weakened her own constitution severely . |
| 29 | Even today , children retain vivid impressions from the stories told to them by their mothers and grandmothers about their own childhoods ‘ long ago ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ They 've got their own money , ’ the senator answered , ‘ left to them by their grandmother . |