Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] their [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 2 | At present , everything that Hewlett-Packard is doing looks right : it has won itself a reputation of taking better care of its customers , an example being the way it is not forcing its MPE users to move to Unix , instead letting them migrate at their own pace . |
| 3 | Meechai told reporters that so-called " sex tourists " were no longer welcome in Thailand , and warned them to remain in their own countries " and exploit their own women and children " . |
| 4 | Almost always , by helping them stay in their own homes — not only by providing the necessary cash , but also by helping them to obtain all the entitlements to which they are due . |
| 5 | The only small crumb of comfort is that , since May 1990 , tenants ( but not managers ) of national brewers ' pubs can buy guest cask ales free of the tie — but the nationals have been quick to dominate this new market niche by organising their own lists of ‘ guest beers ’ , many of them brewed by their own subsidiaries . |
| 6 | In England older men could get contract work for hedging and ditching , maintaining public spaces , or minor building repairs , which allowed them to work at their own pace . |
| 7 | It also requires them to guard against their own tendencies towards myopia . |
| 8 | Such funds would not , therefore , form part of the school 's delegated budget and governors would not be free to deploy them according to their own priorities . |
| 9 | Through these activities the newly acquired language is transferred to the pupils ' own world and enables them to talk about their own experiences . |
| 10 | As we saw when considering the interactionist critique of positivism , there are two particularly important reasons for this : first , the processes of definition and application produce the data specifying the nature of , and the trends in , crime , and the characteristics of criminals that are subsequently used by criminologists to construct their theories and explanations ; second , these processes of definition and application have consequences for the meanings , implications and justifications that those ‘ labelled ’ by them give to their own actions . |
| 11 | If they ask for proof , let them look into their own hearts . |
| 12 | Staff much preferred the " empty shell " type of program which enabled them to put in their own subject content . |
| 13 | There are excellent restaurants and hotels , many of them specialising in their own way of serving fresh fish from the lake . |
| 14 | About thirty of us gathered in a hotel in Rotherham — all people I 'd worked with including the cleaner and the consultant , and those who had them brought along their own partners , girlfriends , boyfriends and husbands and wives . |
| 15 | Guest houses , inns , farmhouses and B&Bs have all been improving in the same way as the rest of the industry , so that the best of them compare in their own category with say , AA red star hotels . |
| 16 | Those who need personal assistance to enable them to live in their own homes have too often been consigned either to institutions or to enforced dependence on their families . |
| 17 | Given the massive contribution made daily by dedicated staff at the DMH it seems more than a touch insensitive to expect them to dip into their own pockets for the place as well . |
| 18 | They fear for their own livelihoods if it is closed . |
| 19 | Whether they remain in their own homes , move to a new one nearer relatives or close friends , move in with sons or daughters , or into sheltered or residential accommodation — all need to be considered . |
| 20 | Again discontinuity of experience marks the lives of these children , despite the fact that they remain in their own homes all along . |
| 21 | Fatness may indicate avoiding the deprivation they experienced in their own childhood . |
| 22 | The defendants used the drawings to manufacture tools which they sold on their own account . |
| 23 | It is by no means clear how farmers would react to any system which threatened to control their freedom to do as they please with their own land . |
| 24 | Drawing upon their experiences they produced in their own country buildings which echoed those of Imperial Paris , as anyone familiar with the architecture of , say , Philadelphia and Washington , will readily admit ( in the autumn of 1978 the city of Philadelphia recognized its debt by staging , in its Museum of Art , an exhibition devoted to the Second Empire ) . |
| 25 | These people cared deeply about the success of the venture because they cared about their own livelihoods , the future of their children and the very breath of their dying community . |
| 26 | An integral part of the removal of barriers between member states has been and remains the implementation of the fundamental principle of Community law that member states should not discriminate against one another and should assimilate the treatment they accord to nationals from other member states to the treatment they accord to their own nationals . |
| 27 | They derive narcissistic satisfaction from their cultural ideals when they compare themselves with others ; ‘ … the right to despise the people outside it ( their culture ) compensates them for the wrongs they suffer within their own unit ’ . |
| 28 | If they moved within their own country , this raised no novel problems of technique . |
| 29 | But it was pointless trying to compare or liken these mountains to others , they had individual stature and grace , they rose with their own majesty from valleys I could only dream about . |
| 30 | Gagarin , in 1721 ) , the tsar 's ‘ Siberian satraps ’ enjoyed almost plenipotentiary powers in what they regarded as their own freedom , which they exercised with all the arbitrary and unbridled ruthlessness of a military dictatorship and the methods of a police state . |