Example sentences of "they in their " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the mild south , gardeners can get away with plunging them in their containers buried in peat in the garden , but up here they 'll need to be kept safe from hard frost in a cold frame . |
| 2 | Most gliding instructors are aware of these problems and watch out for them in their students . |
| 3 | She had taken that step ; and now she , at only 36 years of age , had to bring up her children alone , and help them in their turn to make that large and difficult step . |
| 4 | When they are asked to sign a piece of paper they moan and groan , and get paranoid about people trying to peep at them in their luxury . |
| 5 | They placed them in their bedroom , together with a vase of flowers . |
| 6 | Will any of those disappointed Berlin front-runners stand a chance , and who would replace them in their respective jobs if they go ? |
| 7 | Orthodox Muslim parents felt that the schools were making an almost deliberate attempt to obstruct them in their efforts to bring up their daughters as Muslims . |
| 8 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 9 | Meeting their expectations means communicating with them in their own tongue . |
| 10 | When they had gone , Lily cried for them in their helplessness , feeling , for all her weakness , stronger than them , realising that it was easier to contemplate one 's own death than the death of someone loved . |
| 11 | I have a pair of brown suede brogues that are really worn and I prefer them in their frazzled state ! |
| 12 | And for those insular fans who shunned them in their thousands at Old Trafford and Elland Road , a sense of guilt would not be inappropriate . |
| 13 | HERE for Christmas are some lighter offerings , only one of them seasonal but all of them in their different ways highly recommendable . |
| 14 | Congressmen are reluctant to make a defence cut that might pain them in their own districts . |
| 15 | The old tight links between banks and firms related to them in their industrial groups have gone . |
| 16 | The big funds realise that , in practice , they can not sell out of most companies they own for they will always need them in their portfolios . |
| 17 | But it is by mixing the personal and the cosmic in his reporting , just as the scientists mix them in their lives , that Mr Overbye has managed to write such a good book . |
| 18 | ‘ So wonderfully pleased and satisfied ’ was he with it that , as Molyneux wrote to Locke , ‘ he has ordered it to be read by the Batchelors in the College , and strictly examines them in their progress therein ’ ; and so it came about that Locke 's masterpiece was on the curriculum which faced George Berkeley , the subject of the next chapter , when he entered Trinity as a student in 1700 . |
| 19 | judges enjoy an almost complete immunity in respect of acts — even corrupt and malicious acts , happily rare in our history — done by them in their judicial capacity . |
| 20 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |
| 21 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 22 | They were only meant to be temporary , but humankind has barriers just like them in their own heads — permanent ones in most cases . |
| 23 | There 's no sign of any emblems of the National Socialist State in any form whatsoever among people who had displayed them in their homes . ’ |
| 24 | If young children , dependent on an adult for basic needs , learnt that the adult does not always come back , then this has far-reaching consequences for them in their own adult experience . |
| 25 | Many horses have a lot of negative things happen to them in their lives , like Anna ; but unlike with Anna , they are usually interspersed with good things too — which fortunately have an undoing effect . |
| 26 | The role of the officers — the vanguard of revolutionary education , exempt from the civilian controls which applied to electricity or water — seemed to have encouraged them in their belief that in their private capacities too officers were not subject to the same rules as civilians . |
| 27 | King John exacted very large fines from the heirs to these serjeanties for confirming them in their lands and offices — £100 from Philip son of Holgot for the wardenship of Kinver Forest in 1199 , a like sum in 1200 from Richard de Munfichet for the forest of Essex , and one hundred marks in 1215 from Michael de Columbars for the forest of Chute . |
| 28 | If not we may have to lock them in their bedrooms . |
| 29 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |
| 30 | Farmers needed to identify likely emergency situations on their farms and ensure that there was somebody able to cover for them in their absence . |