Example sentences of "[pers pn] for their " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that telling them would be hard but nothing prepared me for their anger and grief during our final month together . |
| 2 | Also , if anybody 's not actually paid me for their book that they actually purchased last week , I 'm open to accept payment today . |
| 3 | The kindness of my Kildalton friends in thinking of me for their minister is encouraging as showing that no truly earnest , honest . |
| 4 | My plan was to sit around and wait for one of the parish team to appear and then to ask them for their advice . |
| 5 | They still have good memories of The Weavers playing together in concert — before Pete Seeger quit in the wake of Decca 's dropping them for their politicking — a symptom of McCarthyism , then gathering pace . |
| 6 | Texas Instruments , having recognised the wider implications of producing high performance processors , has attached great importance to its C compilers and produces them for their TMS320C25 and TMS320C3x . |
| 7 | The humour inheres not just in the daffy selection of cultural allusions ( their native French accordion , some flamenco guitar , a few African horns ) but also in the way they take stiff , formal tempi ( waltzes and tangos ) and mockingly squeeze them for their stateliness . |
| 8 | After about twenty minutes I got up and prepared to leave , thanking both of them for their hospitality . |
| 9 | Railway employees , or ‘ Nepo-idols ’ as they were called , queued for hours for scarce tickets for the Nepmen who tipped them for their service . |
| 10 | Central Council appreciates the contribution made by the RAFALOs and thanks them for their efforts . |
| 11 | Our grateful thanks go to them for their support of the Association . |
| 12 | the appropriate days and rewarded them for their votes with meals and refreshments at Magdalen . |
| 13 | The Fund is very grateful to them for their help . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't blame them for their anger . ’ |
| 15 | The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team . |
| 16 | The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team . |
| 17 | To embroider the sampler , we turned to some multiple agencies and asked them for their recommendations of good value on a £1,000 booking for four people . |
| 18 | Dolphins have been hunted in the Black Sea since the late nineteenth century , when Russian fishermen sought them for their meat and oil . |
| 19 | But the Germans admired them for their toughness and energy and in 1898 persuaded Britain , which then ran Bougainville , to swap the island for some German possessions elsewhere in the Pacific . |
| 20 | Lloyd spoilt it , of course , with an unbeaten 60 that helped his team to 190 all out , but having dismissed them for their lowest total in years England had to feel confident . |
| 21 | However , even when the genetic indices are expressed in money terms , farmers and their advisers will need help to interpret them for their own individual situation in these early days . |
| 22 | I thought I was disgusted by the men who liked to stab women in the breasts , etc. ’ with no thought for them as persons , but just out to use them for their own satisfaction . |
| 23 | By the terms of their appointment many foresters of fee were supposed to provide underforesters at their own expense , but in practice some took money from them for their appointment . |
| 24 | But the Forest officers continued to attach and imprison men for Forest offences within these districts , and to take money from them for their deliverance from gaol , often compelling reluctant juries to make presentments against their will , and obtaining indictments in other irregular ways . |
| 25 | A further 4,000 acres were allotted to commoners and the poor to compensate them for their loss of common rights , but since this was the poorest — indeed it was worthless — land , violent opposition was aroused among the commoners . |
| 26 | Wiser writers , like Frank Ronan , leave them for their third or fourth . |
| 27 | He preached before both Charles II and Cromwell and courageously reproved them for their sins . |
| 28 | If any of our political masters , the faceless bureaucrats , the time-serving , vote-chasing , career politicians who sanctioned this devastation , ever read these lines , then I curse them for their crass stupidity and their wanton rape of my native land . |
| 29 | And they all confirmed what Alvar Fañez had said ; and the Cid thanked them for their love , and said that there might come a time in which he should guerdon them . |
| 30 | I admire them for their attitude . |