Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun sg] " 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 | They will take out overdrafts , empty their building society accounts , even sell their second houses . |
| 4 | preface their statement with a question . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Up and down the country people ring me up and say they 'd like to modify their glider . |
| 10 | ( 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 ’ ! ) |
| 11 | There are certain things that they need to do , to learn to modify their behaviour . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | B , the m , they learn to modify their behaviour . |
| 14 | Speakers of Hiberno-English ( one variety of English used in Ireland ) are under increasing pressure to modify their language in the direction of Standard English , which is the prestige norm in Ireland . |
| 15 | In each case a number of issues arose , some of which were resolved , as they attempted to modify their classroom practice . |
| 16 | Pupils have many different views as to the nature of learning and the role of teachers , and part of the work with a new class is in some cases to get them to modify their perspective . |
| 17 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 18 | Those who have accepted ideas about their worthlessness , their impotence or their badness will not usually be able to help themselves unless and until they are able to modify their self-image . |
| 19 | The aim of everyone , irrespective of weight , should be to modify their eating very slightly to maximize health benefits . |
| 20 | The subject-matter may be of a discretionary or regulatory nature and while these elements should not exclude proscriptions against bias they are likely to modify their application . |
| 21 | We saw in Sweden they tried to modify their game to fit in with the Continental style and it did n't work . |
| 22 | Because she disliked men , she did not cultivate their friendship . |
| 23 | They mingle their trouble , a music |
| 24 | It is alarming that one quarter of women in this country still lie in the sun without protecting their skin . |
| 25 | The chemists encouraged people to have fun in the sun while protecting their skin from the harsh rays which can prove dangerous . |
| 26 | Every computer user should seriously consider protecting their system with an uninterrupted power supply . |
| 27 | Partly this is a matter of protecting their expertise : any fool can claim generic he is sexist , but only the linguist can explain it is really ‘ unmarked ’ . |
| 28 | social — caring for , providing opportunities and protecting their child . |
| 29 | Now if you 've got somebody who you are protecting their family , and they 'll be paying that plan twenty five years or more , the fact that they pay commissions out for the first four years is immaterial , what they want is peace of mind and protection . |
| 30 | A report has recommended that logging in the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest region of the USA be cut by more than half as a means of sustaining them in the long term and protecting their wildlife [ see EDs passim ] . |