Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody asked to see their passports and they were airborne half an hour later , on their way to Keflavik on the western side of Iceland , where they landed seven hours later . |
| 2 | On the same day the Soviet Union and Hungary agreed to conduct their bilateral trade in hard currency from 1991 onwards , replacing previous barter arrangements . |
| 3 | The move comes after nearly one in four of BR 's routes failed to hit their performance targets under John Major 's new Citizen 's Charter . |
| 4 | On the pitch they are struggling to preserve their Premier Division status with the worse defensive record among the top clubs while boardroom battles continue to drive a wedge between club and supporters . |
| 5 | It can be made more complicated by trying to value the choices that managers could make to affect their future cash flows , such as closing a factory , and the choices that are contingent on other choices . |
| 6 | The chartbustin' all-girl band planned to invest their pop earnings in a beauty salon . |
| 7 | After the almost total defeat of the Italians in North Africa by General O'Connor in January 1941 , the Germans had decided to send an Afrika Korps to bolster their allies . |
| 8 | It is well known that parents tend to treat their children as they themselves have been treated by their own parents . |
| 9 | Psychiatrists tend to treat their cases more as organisms in need of medical treatment . |
| 10 | Standing committees , especially , tend to conduct their business away from the glare of publicity and the debate tends to be efficient , rational and frequently unpartisan . |
| 11 | Some drivers , however , say they ca n't live on less money and would prefer to lose their jobs rather than accept a cut . |
| 12 | He had reasoned that , like him , Eleanor would want to continue their friendship and sweep the quarrel under the carpet . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course schools will want to continue their good practice of regular reports to parents and responding to any concerns parents might have . |
| 14 | The senior magistrate was a large and imposing man with a round face and a bald head ; the man and woman on either side of him seemed dried-out and lifeless by comparison , as if most of their energy had been diverted to sustain their companion . |
| 15 | In the event , Palmerston and Russell agreed to sink their differences and with a united opposition the Conservatives ' days were numbered . |
| 16 | ‘ … and carve them into art forms which the Coriads purchase and contemplate to stimulate their lateral thinking . ’ |
| 17 | These aspects have been touched upon throughout this chapter , but are now highlighted to emphasise their importance . |
| 18 | They held up posters rejecting the idea that their fathers were anything like the Gestapo , and calling for ‘ full social security ’ for Stasi officers expected to lose their posts in the process of trimming the service . |
| 19 | The ordinary shares held by management , which may confer control of Newco , will be a small proportion of the total share and loan capital of Newco , so that the amount management needs to borrow to acquire their stake in Newco is affordable , and can be serviced by dividends and earnings , with , it is to be hoped , the additional benefit of interest relief on their borrowings ( see 4.4 above ) . |
| 20 | The Sunderland contingent in a 40,000 crowd stayed in their places long after the finish demanding to see their heroes . |
| 21 | We were eventually released and returned to find some of the crew busily repairing the mainsail on the dock , while the rest , with Tandri and the officers , were being bullied by lesser officials who were nosing around the hold and demanding to see their personal possessions . |
| 22 | As Sage Associates , based in Oakland , California , the pair intend to peddle their know-how about how to make presentations to analysts to industry folk who , they say , are n't getting their message across . |
| 23 | It is not two years since a rag-tag group of about 200 men , few of them daring to wear their Soviet uniforms , gathered in the Kiev building that housed a short-lived nationalist government in 1917–18 , to found the Ukrainian Officers Union . |
| 24 | For 20 minutes the death squad blazed away , but most of the bullets failed to penetrate their victims ' heavy vests of jewels and medals . |
| 25 | In his day Wilson was very conscious of some of the injustices from which the weavers suffered , and through his pen he sought to champion their cause . |
| 26 | Receivership is anathema to corporate financiers , who hate to see their fat fees going to those who just pick over the bones . |
| 27 | He was concerned that parents would want to see their children doing ‘ real ’ maths , and advised injecting investigations into the existing syllabus instead . |
| 28 | ‘ These men had been trained to do specific jobs and we did not want to see their skills just thrown away . ’ |
| 29 | Their officers might experience at times a tension between enjoyment of these qualities and impatience at their collective uncooperativeness , but few of them seem to have become so downhearted that they ceased to enjoy their work . |
| 30 | Closet countrysiders may want to pretend their patch is actually a corner of some Sussex meadow and picture it swagged with honeysuckle and waving with ox-eye daisies and scabious . |