Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 31 | All the same , Americans are naturally most comfortable with what they know , and Mr Major 's win is obviously welcome to people in power — both for reassuring them about their closest ally in Europe and for the omens it casts on their own politics . |
| 32 | They had seen enough of their father drunk and there had been a terrible scene at Uncle Mick 's funeral when Denis got drunk and started arguing with them about their business practices . |
| 33 | For want of any better solution trainees will suggest that the adviser contact the local authorities to ask them about their policy on moving tenants suffering from racial harassment . |
| 34 | Thus , for example , if one wanted to study the reactions of women readers of romantic novels to a change in the cover design of a series of books , a group of , say , eight women of varying ages and social classes could be got together either in a house or in a discussion room at a research agency and a trained discussion leader would ask questions of them about their reading interests and , generally speaking , what they expect romantic novels to look like . |
| 35 | talk with them about their feelings on drugs and solvents |
| 36 | Mr Burns said he did not speak to them about their past life because he felt that would have been ‘ insensitive ’ . |
| 37 | Elderly people 's ‘ need ’ for support is difficult to measure directly , but a reasonable indicator can be obtained by asking them about their capacity to perform a range of daily living activities and self-care tasks , and about their mobility . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Finally , residential workers have an important part to play not only in standing by young people , but also in communicating with them about their experiences and in helping them to explain and discover meaning in their lives . |
| 40 | As it is necessary during the assembly of certain components ( such as links ) to rotate them about their assembly points so they can mate with other constrained linkages , the original component drawing should also carry suitable construction arcs struck from the assembly point and passing through the linkage pin point . |
| 41 | They can stop people , without prior basis of suspicion , ask them for personal details or question them about their knowledge of recent terrorist incidents . |
| 42 | probably includes a disproportionate number of transients , of lower working class people hostile to officials with clipboards attempting to ask them about their lives , and those most frightened to answer . |
| 43 | In a few cases , staff and parents ' views were downright contradictory , for example , when asked if staff kept them fully informed about their child 's progress , a number of parents felt staff tended not to tell them about their child 's good points whereas staff said that most of what they said to parents was positive . |
| 44 | And of course , because Jim was relying on Blenkinsop to know basic facts , he did n't grill any of them about their war records , their financial position , or career history . |
| 45 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | But I would n't talk to them about their work . |
| 48 | And the protesters ' anger was heightened when Environment Secretary Michael Howard refused to see them about their fears . |
| 49 | Where the latter have rejected other gods in favour of the one they wish to follow , the former has attempted to assimilate the many gods in which it believes into a single Deity who stands behind them as their ground . |
| 50 | When Fred came back to the table , the two old friends suddenly fused and started to laugh , while Daisy had to wait upon them as their natural audience . |
| 51 | Work schemes of this type are , none the less , especially difficult to fund , and neither the NHS nor social services have regarded them as their responsibility , a situation which must change if we want to provide a more fulfilling life for people with mental disorder . |
| 52 | The one true God was not only over them as their Creator . |
| 53 | In the meantime , the colleges themselves are trying very hard to develop high-level courses , partly for the reasons of ‘ academic drift ’ we have discussed in Chapter 5 , and are supported in this endeavour by the LEAs , who regard them as their prestige institutions , and by the WJEC . |
| 54 | and then came back and took a woman back with them as their servant . |
| 55 | and then er regarded them as their own , you know . |
| 56 | My plan was to sit around and wait for one of the parish team to appear and then to ask them for their advice . |
| 57 | They still have good memories of The Weavers playing together in concert — before Pete Seeger quit in the wake of Decca 's dropping them for their politicking — a symptom of McCarthyism , then gathering pace . |
| 58 | Texas Instruments , having recognised the wider implications of producing high performance processors , has attached great importance to its C compilers and produces them for their TMS320C25 and TMS320C3x . |
| 59 | The humour inheres not just in the daffy selection of cultural allusions ( their native French accordion , some flamenco guitar , a few African horns ) but also in the way they take stiff , formal tempi ( waltzes and tangos ) and mockingly squeeze them for their stateliness . |
| 60 | After about twenty minutes I got up and prepared to leave , thanking both of them for their hospitality . |