Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is repeatedly being copied and recopied as the generations go by , like the Hebrew scriptures which were ritually copied by scribes every 80 years to forestall their wearing-out . |
| 2 | How long had she and Jezrael observed their parents to forestall their anger ? |
| 3 | The modern veterinary surgeon does not see nearly as many cases of distemper as we used to , simply because most people immunize their puppies at the earliest possible moment . |
| 4 | I was still off the chain so could at least go to the little bathroom and fill the others ' water-bottles and empty their pee-bottles . |
| 5 | They will take out overdrafts , empty their building society accounts , even sell their second houses . |
| 6 | But that wo n't be any consolation on Christmas morning when my kids empty their stockings and find no trace of the Tracys . |
| 7 | They have honed their skills as developers and operators in privatisations elsewhere . |
| 8 | He was a active member of the Society , which he described as ‘ the best of the local Societies ’ , and had addressed their meetings . |
| 9 | preface their statement with a question . |
| 10 | One of the oddities , though , is when C and M slip across a piece that has little or nothing to do with the high-tech graphics which preface their speciality corner . |
| 11 | Their origins stem from France where old Mr Fauchon years ago told me his forebears were Huguenots , who fled their country from a small place bearing the family name of Fauchonville . |
| 12 | While Raisa chatted in Moscow and Gorbachev emphasised his commitment to reform , the Communist leaders in Moldavia fled their rostrum when nationalist demonstrators waved banners . |
| 13 | For while she returned her kingdom to full doctrinal and liturgical conformity with Rome , many English Protestant exiles fled their homeland and took up residence in Strasbourg , Zurich , Emden , Frankfurt , and Geneva , where they gained first-hand experience of the Zwinglian and Calvinist forms of Protestantism , and became fully immersed in the Calvinist theology of grace and salvation . |
| 14 | Thousands of Palestinians fled their jobs in Israel and returned home , denouncing the shootings as a massacre of innocents , and calling on Arabs to observe three black days of mourning . |
| 15 | The law is so rigorous and so thorough that it would be difficult to misunderstand the import of the statutory legislation which governs the property of the Palestinian Arabs who fled their homes in 1948 and who — by the same law — can not return . |
| 16 | East of the Oder-Neisse river , the Allies had agreed to place lands ‘ under Polish administration ’ and most Germans living there fled their homes , creating a daunting refugee problem in western Germany . |
| 17 | President Bush declared a state of emergency as up to a million people fled their homes . |
| 18 | There were no sudden changes in direction even though employers and government began to modify their attitudes towards trade unions in such a way as to encourage negotiations at the highest level . |
| 19 | They should aim to enable individuals to use their personal emotional and intellectual resources to modify their attitudes and behaviour and to learn new social skills so as to achieve a stable way of life with diminished or no use of alcohol . |
| 20 | The jurors , having appeared before the king , were induced , probably by threats of amercement and imprisonment , to acknowledge their error and to modify their perambulations ; they then received the king 's pardon . |
| 21 | Emphasis must be put on the task , individuals must accept the need to modify their views for its sake , and group effort must be seen to be superior to individual effort . |
| 22 | Organizers of schemes interviewed during the initial review indicated their reluctance to modify their schemes substantially in view of the time and expense required . |
| 23 | Up and down the country people ring me up and say they 'd like to modify their glider . |
| 24 | ( I doubt that men are reading magazines which counsel them to modify their style in order ‘ to communicate better with all the women in your life ’ ! ) |
| 25 | There are certain things that they need to do , to learn to modify their behaviour . |
| 26 | That type of thing , or they were A types and they learned to modify their behaviour , and survived or the A types are dead before they get to the top . |
| 27 | B , the m , they learn to modify their behaviour . |
| 28 | Although both men were forced to modify their opinions later in life , initially they held the extreme ‘ nominalist ’ and ‘ essentialist ’ positions . |
| 29 | you can do much to help other people , whether they be your superiors , associates , colleagues or subordinates , to modify their feelings and behaviour for better . |
| 30 | However , some councils have had to modify their policies in this respect in view of the management problems on these estates . |