Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [det] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billy Bonds , West Ham 's manager , keeps on saying that his team must win all their remaining matches to stay up , but they keep on losing instead . |
| 2 | The DAR must keep all their ammo in the bus , the Sandrat thought . |
| 3 | Banks must keep all their interest rates in line with other financial institutions in order to remain competitive . |
| 4 | No two nodes should have all their weights the same . |
| 5 | ‘ But nobody should have all their capital invested in one sector of the market , as you have . |
| 6 | Employees at Brown & Root must repay all their disturbance allowance and housing assistance grant if they leave the company within 12 months of moving and 50 per cent of this total assistance if they leave between 12 months and two years of the relocation . |
| 7 | This collaboration should involve both their teachers and their peers . |
| 8 | Nothing difficult is attempted — eg only five different atoms are used — but banish any thought of triviality , because with the cubes shown in Fig. 1 we introduce children to five themes that they may study all their lives . |
| 9 | They 'll need all their sharpness . |
| 10 | ‘ Hell and the devil , I 'll cut both their livers out ! |
| 11 | ‘ In this way boys and girls would get ample opportunity of guidance as to their choice of careers , and those who were going to be apprenticed or learn skilled trades might have all their arrangements made while still at school . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Get them out golfing and they 'll forget all their troubles ’ was his maxim . |
| 13 | But nobody else in Seoul cared about trade links when they could focus all their attention on the crumbling marriage of the warring Waleses . |
| 14 | She felt that she was longing more than ever for it to end so that she and John could spend all their time together . |
| 15 | Individuals could spend all their time at work or play . |
| 16 | Yet many qualified that statement : Peter Samuel welcomed the way that headhunters could put all their resources into one search at a time and avoid Kingfisher having to maintain expensive overhead staff unnecessarily . |
| 17 | I 'd put all their names down |
| 18 | One resource the country does have is the surrounding sea and in theory this could supply all their essential metals , including gold . |
| 19 | The local people , the Saami ( Lapps ) use the ancient forests as their " winter pasture " and logging may jeopardise both their reindeer husbandry and eventual cultural survival . |
| 20 | I used to do all their printing for them for their photographers . . |
| 21 | One family would gather on Sunday evening round the harmonium ; another would go to their grandfather 's village shop , boys and uncles each with a fiddle or cello , to sing or dance to their own tunes — ‘ we really enjoyed that ; ’ while a Yorkshire millowner 's family used to ask all their kin for weekly musical parties , taking turns to host these ‘ dreadful performances . ’ |
| 22 | With his assistance she could return to that blessed , wondrous world of — when had it been ? — an hour ago , before disaster had fallen upon her , when she had been blissfully on her way to pin Miss Dallam into the dress that would make both their reputations in Frizingley for elegance . |
| 23 | I wish they would buy all their groceries from the Cairnbaan Post Office as they meander past . |
| 24 | Anna Martin described the resistance of working class wives she knew to school meals , which they felt would undermine both their husbands ' obligation to provide and their own role within the home . |
| 25 | In the mortgage deed the respondents further covenanted that they would purchase all their requirements from the appellants exclusively . |
| 26 | It created quite a stir on the camp when they left , as it was decided they would take all their ground crews with them in gliders . |
| 27 | They were cleaned until you could see your face in them and fellows were so keen that when they got a new tunic , they would cut all their new buttons off , and put their old buttons on that were beautifully shined . |
| 28 | ‘ When people vote on the day , they are looking at the party who will form the government , and in this part of the country they do not want socialism , ’ said Mr Peter Hodgson , the Conservatives ' Western Area chairman , who was confident the Conservatives would retain all their seats . |
| 29 | We shall pay all their expenses for the rest of their lives and an inspector will visit annually ’ . |
| 30 | Glasgow ambulance staff yesterday voted to observe TUC guidelines after management had warned that those on patient transfer would have their pay docked by three quarters unless they worked normally , and accident and emergency staff would lose half their pay unless they worked within the guidelines . |