Example sentences of "[verb] in their " in BNC.
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| 1 | But irrespective of how they construe the common sense which is the policeman or woman 's working knowledge , seniors are agreed that new recruits need experience of life to enable them to deal with the range of situations and people they encounter in their work . |
| 2 | For all our participants , and undoubtedly for many of this age-group , a central issue that is constantly recurring in their interpretation of the day-to-day practices they encounter in their social lives is the extent to which they are recognized as persons of independent dignity and standing . |
| 3 | ‘ Yet , at that age they are still nursed , still sleep in their mother 's arms , are still three years away from puberty , and about four years from when they will conceive their first offspring . ’ |
| 4 | Noreen felt much the same so it was with great relief that for the New York engagement they could at least travel in from Queen 's each day and sleep in their own beds at night . |
| 5 | They sleep in their socks and their trousers and their tunics , and still the cold bites them . |
| 6 | Older children also sleep in their parents ' room , a pattern which continued in the middle class Bangladeshi families in this sample and those in which the parents had grown up in Britain . |
| 7 | I eat their food , I sleep in their bed , I shag their daughter now and again . ’ |
| 8 | Chairs decorously ranged in their places , the white cloth gone . |
| 9 | They involve in their essence the consideration of the future of the nation state . |
| 10 | At the other extreme , many historians believe that the Labour Party had simply inherited working-class support from the Liberals owing to the fact that trade unions had changed their allegiance when it became obvious that only an independent Labour Party would act in their interests . |
| 11 | The delegates do not act in their personal capacity but carry out the policies and instructions of their government , as shown by the provision that an alternate delegate can be empowered to act and vote on behalf of a delegate who is absent . |
| 12 | But while delegation is a prerequisite of corporate efficiency , it also carries with it the risk , common to all agency relationships , that the managers will act in their own interests at the expense of the shareholders , thereby reducing the expected gains , not only for the shareholders , but also for society as a whole . |
| 13 | Generally , the duty of confidence owed by ex-employees will be less than for current employees who should always act in their employer 's best interests . |
| 14 | Nonetheless the parties may stand or fall by the evidence as disclosed in their witness statements , although a witness will always be free to give evidence in relation to new matters which have arisen since the statement was served on the other party . |
| 15 | He is more likely to enjoy going to a restaurant that has good traditional furnishings that are well designed in their own terms . |
| 16 | The corporation has developed , at its Martlesham research laboratory , communications hardware that it hopes companies will install in their own offices for such conferences . |
| 17 | Care therefore needs to be exercised in the choice of an agent and such organisations as the British Overseas Trade Board and banks will advise and assist in their selection . |
| 18 | To-day we can see Pakistani or Bengali women , walking in their traditional clothes , barely able to understand the language of the country in which they are living , acting as the repository for the pain and grief of the whole family . |
| 19 | He took Peter , James and John into the house where the girl was surrounded with people crying and wailing in their distress . |
| 20 | Mass Ob gave specially produced round-bag samples to 300 people to try in their homes . |
| 21 | Equally , however , the constable and marshal of the army had authority delegated to them to try in their courts ( in which the military law was applied ) men such as deserters and those who broke the rules of discipline . |
| 22 | Shrivelled in their pots . |
| 23 | These two novels suggest in their different ways that the relation between province and metropolis , countryside and city , periphery and centre , ever potent themes in modern Italian writing , is open to reinterpretation and reorganization into new narrative and symbolic combinations . |
| 24 | ‘ The Scots are in no mood to have foreigners , or Sassenachs as they call us , interfering in their affairs , but by all means keep yourself conversant with what is happening . |
| 25 | Of course , it was useful to both Romania and China to let Moscow know how deeply involved they were with the Americans , because such knowledge could deter Moscow from interfering in their internal affairs . |
| 26 | However , imposition of liability might result in member States becoming unwilling to allow international organisations to act independently and interfering in their day to day operation . |
| 27 | Then they wo n't be cross with us for interfering in their primitive rituals . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Peter Haliday , the district police commander for the area surrounding the Whitehead Detention Centre , Hong Kong 's largest camp for boat people , said the victims were attacked in their sleep by 10 men . |
| 29 | Statistically the chances of elderly people being attacked in their own homes are very low . |
| 30 | He says elderly people are not attacked in their homes very often , but the fear of attack is great and the campaign will help to play down those fears . |