Example sentences of "[verb] be [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Losing at home four two to Swindon , their arch rivals after being two in front , but I 'd just like to make one point clear ; do n't blame manager Brian Horton because all of Oxford 's matches that they 've lost this season has been through their own fault : lack of character out there on the pitch , there 's nothing Brian can do sat on the bench . |
| 2 | ‘ … there are many Ph Ds whose working career has borne little relation to the subject of their thesis , however potent the contribution of research training has been to their intellectual and practical development . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ … there are many Ph Ds whose working career has borne little relation to the subject of their thesis , however potent the contribution of research training has been to their intellectual and practical development . ’ |
| 4 | In the course of these policies , one or the other restrictive practice has been singled out as the root cause of our ills — resale price maintenance , clearing banks ' cartel , trade unions — the cry has been for their removal . |
| 5 | They 'll a' be in their beds like decent folk . ’ |
| 6 | And also I think , which is very strong and I think it does come out in , in the Chinese Communist Party , is the lust of power which can be even more dangerous when you convince yourself I 'll do all you lot good but I can make you all members of the Communist Party , whether you want to be or not does n't really matter , you know , it 's gon na be for the good of the country so you fall in with this trap of assuming that you want is for their good so it 's sort of a , a dangerous thing . |
| 7 | We believe that people should have the choice and the choice and the rights that most people want is for their children to be educated in schools without water dripping down the walls , where the ceiling does n't fall in , that does n't rely on temporary classes . |
| 8 | No one supposes that international relations can be fully understood just by assembling a patchwork of what the actors say was in their minds . |
| 9 | And sadly , many of the people it kills are in their middle years . |
| 10 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 11 | One of the men sounded furious , the other frightened — the one who 'd been in their car . |
| 12 | I mean , in the parish over the erm what five to ten years , the things that have grown are in their own , the , various other support groups and so on . |
| 13 | What Muslim men do n't like is for their women to work outside the home , potentially in the company of strange men . |
| 14 | Because I think one of the extraordinary changes that have taken place in history at professional level is the much greater interest in things that older historian would have thought was outside their province . |
| 15 | Where Nonconformist preachers differed was in their isolation : they stood alone without a liturgy on which to fall back or a priestly vocation which made good preaching a desirable but not essential option . |
| 16 | Make them do what we know is for their benefit as well as our own , and all difficulties in China are at an end . ’ |
| 17 | Little new factual material is to be found in Revealing the Universe but where the editors , J. Cornell and A. P. Lightman , do score is in their unique combination of subjects and authors , and the approach to the material . |
| 18 | If 5,000 people ring the Samaritans each day , within 15 years half the adult population of this country will have been at their wits ' end . |
| 19 | They might not have been at their best on Saturday , but until the outstanding Ruel Fox was injured they played some impressive football . |
| 20 | Defenders of the evacuees pointed out that the exercise had taken place at the end of a particularly hot summer , in which head lice would have thrived , that parents had not been properly informed of how long their children would be evacuated for ( and hence despatched them in one day 's clothing ) , or that the first day of evacuation ( 1 September ) was a Friday — the day on which working-class financial resources would have been at their lowest , preventing parents buying extra garments for their children . |
| 21 | The idea , however , that the rebels aimed to kill the King is unlikely — not only did the rebels show a positive loyalty to him at Mile End and Smithfield , and adopt as a watchword ‘ King Richard and the True Commons ’ , but they made no attempt to take vengeance on him for the death of Wat Tyler , when he could have been at their mercy . |
| 22 | The shot that came back off Shilton 's bar in the last minute in Chorzow — a couple of inches lower , and England might have been on their way out of the World Cup — was a symbolic warning . |
| 23 | ‘ Anyone else would have been on their head . |
| 24 | It has been shown above that those with larger mortgages and those on higher incomes benefit most from MITR , but one of the main arguments originally put forward to justify its existence was that it benefited first-time buyers , enabling them to purchase a house which would otherwise have been beyond their means . |
| 25 | The picture of the Child of Prague looked down in all its red and gold splendour on the framed photograph of the late Superintendent Michael O'Neal who smiled widely on three little blonde heads who should have been in their beds . |
| 26 | Carpenter 's speed and control was even causing problems for Harris , himself no slouch , and Farnham 's hearts must have been in their mouths when the Cranleigh number 10 , having broken clear on the right , hit the deck after a late challenge by Cann who had raced out of his area . |
| 27 | ‘ The crash happened at a time when a lot of people would have been in their homes . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The crash happened at a time when a lot of people would have been in their homes watching TV . |
| 29 | However , complex these ideas may have been in their original conception , they were taken over by many educationalists in a simplified , stereotypic form , typified by the supposed dichotomy between ‘ elaborated ’ and ‘ restricted ’ codes . |
| 30 | They must have been in their twenties when the family moved from Trebyan . ’ |