Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minor thefts , for example , may not be reported as the victims feel there is little chance of them getting their goods back or of the offender getting caught . |
| 2 | After all , most of them take their lead from our very own Golf . |
| 3 | All of them owed their existence to the efforts and generosity of private citizens and clergy ; most of them were similar to Joseph Watson 's asylum . |
| 4 | By the time students reach the stage of taking their final examinations , most of them know their subject pretty well . |
| 5 | These catfish have been bred in captivity in tanks containing African Rift Valley cichlids , although there have been one or two reports of them scattering their eggs in the substrate in the usual Synodontis fashion when no cichlids were present . |
| 6 | More significantly , it counterpoised the acquisition of land by the church — ‘ whereby the services which are due from such fees [ i.e. freehold ] and which were provided from the beginning for the defence of the realm are unjustifiably withdrawn and chief lords in respect of them lose their escheats ’ — with the good of the realm , for which the present ban is imposed . |
| 7 | Many of them enjoyed their work experience in Picardy so much they are going back for more in their summer holidays . |
| 8 | they have free travel on the trains , wherever they like to go , they have secretarial allowances , and some of them use their wives as their secretaries . |
| 9 | Researchers at the Tel Aviv School of Medicine asked 46 of them to take their babies ' temperatures and monitor their symptoms in the two weeks before the eruption of their first tooth . |
| 10 | The Argentines are still ethnically the same , the population still predominantly Italian , most of them havin' their roots in the south of Italy and in Sicily . |
| 11 | All three of them drank their cocoa with pleasure . |
| 12 | In this way , the organizational climate interacts with the men 's personal qualities to predispose the majority of them to define their role as one of community service . |
| 13 | None of them betrayed their feelings , however , as they paid obeisance to the Prince , who gravely offered his hand in turn to Mr Scrooge , Dr Marigold , Mr Weller and Miss Nell . |
| 14 | generally speaking the nation had good ears , they knew what was what and they listened quite well , hear you deaf ones he 's describing them and look forth to see you blind once verse twenty it was a case of seeing many things , but you did not cheat watching and Daniel , verse twenty five , look it says there a little phrase near , half way through that he took no note , the nation took no note of what was happening at that time , but we know what happened to them , many of them , thousands , a million of them lost their lives did n't they ? |
| 15 | Because they were overthrown and the others were taken off into captivity into battle life , and what a life they had , the one of slavery , so at that time because they took no note , because they were destiny instructions to Jehovah for his word and again want to see , they had eyes , but they just did n't want to see it they knew , all the whys and wherefores and what the responsibilities were , but they did n't measure up to them and because of that many of them lost their lives , and if they did n't they were taken into captivity , Jeremiah four , in verse twenty two , again another prophecy sent to them exactly over the same message , the same reasons describes to them as being a , er people that is foolish and of me they have taken no notice Jeremiah four and verse twenty two . |
| 16 | In the park , after a long , sporadically talkative meal , they walk with a more even step , the long avenue of silver birch trees ahead of them straightening their path after the awkward descent from the main road . |
| 17 | Eight of them lived their last years in their children 's homes . |
| 18 | Most of them earn their bread and butter from market research , and political polling is the decorative jam on top . |
| 19 | the the some of them made their own shrouds . |
| 20 | W w the County Council have a duty to er consider this application so it 's not a question of them ducking their responsibilities they 're not capable of in law of ducking their responsibilities . |
| 21 | Nor had Polish nobles suffered unduly from the disappearance of Polish schools , for most of them received their education at home . |
| 22 | Twenty-six candidates polled 74,824 votes , all but five of them forfeiting their deposits . |
| 23 | We usually pick , most of them keep their religion to themselves do n't they for me I would n't know . |
| 24 | Yes , but I probably tried to create my own personal brand of Dadaism , just as each of them had their own brand of Dadaism based on the same ideas but expressed in an intensely personal way . |
| 25 | There had been no open quarrel — just the feeling that both of them had their heads down behind different barricades . |
| 26 | Only Croucheston and Faulston are now named ( the others were Flamston and Netton ) , but at least two of them had their own medieval chapels . |
| 27 | The Manor Ground faithful always had a strained relationship with the Maxwells — United supporters would n't take lightly revelations that some of them had their pensions used to pay players ' wages . |
| 28 | Thirdly , although some data is collected in relation to gender , it would be helpful to see some interpretation of statements like these : Although ‘ women were more likely to be living alone than men , there were a number of very elderly men living on their own and some of them caused their carers great concern ’ . |
| 29 | All of them met their husbands here at the lodge . ’ |
| 30 | Bearing in mind that they 're only six and seven in my class , er , and then talking erm , about how they travelled in cars , and and how many of them had ridden in the front seat , er , and most of them put their hands up , and I mean , the recommendation is that if you 're under twelve years of age , you should never ride in the front seat , and so on and so forth . |