Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both boards and bath seats assist many people in being able to continue using their baths . |
| 2 | RUGBY UNION : Scotland have delayed naming their team for Saturday 's international against world champions Australia amid continuing doubts over the fitness of full back Gavin Hastings . |
| 3 | I think you 're sort of drawing drawing their attention to the public concern over that sort of phrase . |
| 4 | The two companies intend co-marketing their work through their respective distribution channels , with Addamax providing the software support and maintenance . |
| 5 | According to Mikoian himself , the USSR insisted that the Cubans buy Soviet goods if they wanted Moscow to continue purchasing their sugar , and adamantly refused to pay more than the world market price for Cuban produce ( Mikoian in Cuba ( Crosscurrents press , New York , 1960 ) , in Boughton : 1974 , p. 450 ) . |
| 6 | He , along with the artists , masons , carpenters and other craftsmen frequently permeate their work with signs of a love of the task they have undertaken , which leaves the beholder in no doubt that they have given something of themselves over and above the requirements of loyalty to the paymaster and the desire to enjoy applying their crafts . |
| 7 | It is not necessarily a soft option to tame wild animals , for to do so involves understanding their nature , being at one with it and drawing it into new forms of behaviour . |
| 8 | Table 6.2 shows the proportion of the sample of men in each social class who reported helping their wives in various tasks once a week . |
| 9 | Thanks for the tip , Daniel , we 're sure our readers will enjoy impressing their friends with this useful shortcut . |
| 10 | Also concurrent with this was the establishing of a mode , or even tradition , of working for feminist artists , which involved using their own bodies ( although with widely varying intentions and political positions ) — either producing images , or through performance or video . |
| 11 | When , during the first years of their friendship , at Braque 's suggestion he and Picasso stopped signing their works they were automatically emphasizing the autonomous existence of their creations . |
| 12 | Every computer user should seriously consider protecting their system with an uninterrupted power supply . |
| 13 | Carew 's bleak diagnosis can hardly have been uninfluenced by several decades of mounting concern at the impermanence of non-agricultural employment compared with the stability of farmers fully occupied tending their land , and men continuously employed as servants in husbandry engaged for a year at a time . |
| 14 | They stopped advertising baby milks to the public on billboards and with radio jingles , and stopped dressing their sales representatives as ’ milk nurses ’ . |
| 15 | Serious cruising yachtsmen might consider hedging their bets by using a hybrid system as used on many of the trans oceanic racing yachts . |
| 16 | VETERAN ravers Macca and Garry Glitter are caught rehearsing their new karaoke double-act . |
| 17 | One in 10 motorists would actually consider selling their car to save money . |
| 18 | A more definitive test involved measuring their energies . |
| 19 | So instead of waiting indefinitely for a buyer , they have decided to try selling their house by auction . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , a diet high in carbohydrates meant that some women not only put on weight but also stopped wearing their corsets . |
| 21 | Hands-on drivers will also enjoy getting their hands on the 944 S2 's progressive power-steering system . |
| 22 | IN THE past women rarely took jobs that involved getting their hands dirty , though in the war they kept the wheels of industry turning as their men went off to fight . |
| 23 | As Spain and Portugal stopped supporting their currencies within the European exchange-rate mechanism ( ERM ) , gloom deepened in the European Community . |
| 24 | When I saw that , I stopped stealing their food . |
| 25 | Have they considered cutting their own attendance allowances at the meetings ? |
| 26 | There is a high incidence among high earners , the unemployed , separated men , those with 10 or more partners , and people who did not enjoy losing their virginity . |
| 27 | And it was two o'clock when they stopped talking , they stopped having their break ! |
| 28 | There about eighty girls , aged from nine to twenty , sat doing their homework . |
| 29 | By the end of their jaunt on the high seas initially dubious visitors are often reluctant to return home and will consider taking their own clients on a similar event . |
| 30 | that , then starts taking their anger out on her |