Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case , however , corporate Japan 's response was a positive one , with companies restructuring their operations and emerging from the difficulties in a stronger position than before . |
| 2 | Owen bellowed orders , and the bushes threshed as the Welsh circled their enemies and took to the thickest of the woodland on their way to the river valley . |
| 3 | The new cars were a sensation when they first appeared , passengers let old cars pass in order to ride on them , and upon entering removed their hats and looked for a door mat ! |
| 4 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 5 | Indeed , the fusion between economic and political goals , the fact that workers often did not draw a sharp line between protest against their employers and protest against the government , boded ill for liberal hopes of channelling worker discontent into peaceful , non-political waters . |
| 6 | Although radical politics of this kind remain in the minority , for both left and right , their development means that councils can experience large changes in their policies whilst remaining under the control of the same party - so increasing political variation at the local level . |
| 7 | Thus by the mid-thirties the boundaries of the WEA 's sector of provision were becoming somewhat ragged margins as the other two better-funded and organised providers developed their policies and encroached into the territory of earlier voluntary endeavour . |
| 8 | At independence , the new governments had looked around for ways of publicizing their activities and seized upon the means to do so . |
| 9 | They put in eighty thousand into their proposals that deal with the planning we have hole on my pouch , well done , but on the other hand you are not prepared to spend twenty five thousand on an important obstacle plan to stop this sort of mess er er arising . |
| 10 | They were forced to turn back , part with their briefcases and leave by the main exit , enduring a search and the humiliation of the crowd . |
| 11 | Yesterday West Yorkshire officers advised women to stay in their cars and wait for a patrol if they break down . |
| 12 | A section of the road was shut for a week and motorists were warned to clean their cars and to dispose of the rags in plastic bags . |
| 13 | Most people stretch their legs and go into the stations . |
| 14 | The idea is graphically summarised by Alison Norman : ‘ We are all familiar with the advertisements and Christmas begging letters which ask for money in terms which suggest that old people are in danger of hypothermia or social isolation simply because they are old — not because they do not have sufficient incomes to heat and repair their homes or to pay for a taxi or telephone . ’ |
| 15 | Different ruses were used to encourage Africans to leave their homes and work on the new colonial projects . |
| 16 | By their words and conduct in the shop , including their production of the goods and signing of the receipts , they were expressly or impliedly incriminating themselves . |
| 17 | They loosen their ties and slouch against the wall with hands in pockets in manufactured nonchalance . |
| 18 | The deputies were to keep their privileges and pay until the end of their five-year term of office , in 1994 . |
| 19 | The carers then place one shoulder under the patient 's shoulder nearest to them ; they clasp their other hand to each other 's wrist under the patient 's thighs , balance on their free arms , and lever the patient upwards or downwards in the bed by bending their knees and leaning towards the direction of the movement . |
| 20 | The wise veterans nod their heads and wait for the first whistle . |
| 21 | Waves crashed over their heads and burst through the open saloon door . |
| 22 | Now there were people putting hoods or sweaters or newspapers over their heads and running for the entrance . |
| 23 | Frick and the others slipped the protectors over their heads and turned towards the table . |
| 24 | A helicopter flew low over their heads and turned in a tight circle . |
| 25 | Beyond Kom Ombo the mighty west bank , miles wide in Middle Egypt , shrank to a line of palm trees which tossed their heads and leaned towards the south . |
| 26 | Their negotiators have refused to take part in further talks with departmental heads and yesterday Pierre Beregovoy , the Minister of Finance , gave in to their demands and agreed to a meeting with the leaders of the five unions involved . |
| 27 | Below these are Planning Units whose heads have overall managerial responsibility for their Units and answer to the Provosts who , in turn , sit on the Central Management Group chaired by the Principal . |
| 28 | They seem to have shut their eyes and hoped to the very end . ’ |
| 29 | They took to their heels and ran up the road . |
| 30 | Then , flexing their powerfully muscled silver bodies , they thrash their tails and leap from the water . |