Example sentences of "their [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty years later the Italians , in another unprovoked attack , used poison gas to ensure victory and shot many of their prisoners out of hand . |
| 2 | The reaction at the meeting was rather subdued , but at the subsequent interviews most staff expressed their views freely about the way the EPH operated and the purpose that it served . |
| 3 | If the doctrine was broken and officials could explain their views freely in public , then ministers would have the much more formidable task of making their case against men who were seized of the key counterpoints and who knew that their arguments were accepted by many in the ministry . |
| 4 | It is disappointing that so few teachers thought it worth attending to express their views either on the resolutions put forward or to raise other matters . |
| 5 | The sales and production directors therefore often ask the financial director to put their views informally to the managing director and to sound out his opinion before they approach him formally . |
| 6 | No , I 'm not a vegetarian and it wo n't make me one but they are perfectly entitled to push their views across through their records . |
| 7 | More ambitiously , it appointed envoys to present their views directly to the politicians . |
| 8 | Criminal law appears to be regarded in legal education as something of a Cinderella subject , being widely regarded as suitable for beginners in the study of law to cut their teeth on before tackling the real business of legal study , viz. contract , tort , trusts and land law . |
| 9 | It is no more than the action of clashing their teeth together as if sinking them into the neck of the prey , in the specialized killing bite of the cat , but it has become a sound signal that many observers have commented on . |
| 10 | Both Greene and Cloke were jeered as they passed the post and cries of ‘ cheats ’ greeted them as they rode their mounts back to the unsaddling enclosure and were hauled before the stewards . |
| 11 | So , all children can be compared in their attainments directly with one another , regardless of age . |
| 12 | The church in Orkney had put their support squarely behind the minister and the parents in South Ronaldsay . |
| 13 | Give them what they want and you will get their support even in these difficult times , ’ was Chapman 's eternal advice , and it still rings true . |
| 14 | As Charles II 's reign progressed , they were gradually to give up their earlier hopes of remodelling the established church into a closer conformity to European Protestantism , and to lend their support instead to the nonconformist struggle for the right to worship outside its boundaries . |
| 15 | Mrs Bauwens , 36 , said : ‘ I am very grateful to David and Judith for their support both at that difficult time and since . |
| 16 | Members of the political élite may give a president their support out of friendship or because they find him to be a likeable person . |
| 17 | I grilled a man called George Evans , the managing director of their operations here on the Continent . |
| 18 | A ceremony of Confirmation and of First Communion are inserted in the House Beautiful , and finally , in the most fundamental change , the pilgrims are enabled to cross the river and enter the Heavenly City by virtue of their acts instead of by their faith . |
| 19 | They have played their part well in industry And in other directions and have also contributed largely on the National Savings Schemes . |
| 20 | That I think recognizes a possibility , by no means a probability , but a possibility that Paul might move away from home and the more real possibility that in due course that Mr and Mrs might be unable to bear their part further as carers . |
| 21 | You wait for the other side to post their part back to you on your client 's purchase , thereby leaving you with the initiative to complete the exchange procedure on your client 's sale , and this you should do immediately . |
| 22 | Boys , usually related to one or more of the working group , seem to have played their part underground in Cornish mines throughout the eighteenth century , employed chiefly in wheeling barrows of ore . |
| 23 | Twelve other members will continue their course through to Lent this year . |
| 24 | And those who have made similar attempts at spiritual self-chronicling have hedged their story about with provisos . |
| 25 | I wanted to bring their story out into the open . ’ |
| 26 | Some sport Gazza crops , while others lost their hair back in the mists of time . |
| 27 | It just annoys me , the way they do n't tie their hair back in the coffee shop . |
| 28 | Among the many booksellers and publishers whom I spotted letting their hair down on the dance floor was independent publisher Christopher Hurst . |
| 29 | He would give them the benefit of his theories that letting their hair down at pop concerts and football matches would be a therapeutic and profitable use of their leisure time . |
| 30 | Young and old let their hair down at Hogmanay |