Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frederick insisted that Polish nobles must either live on their estates in Prussia or sell up their holdings , and to this end he allocated state funds to purchase any Polish lands that came available . |
| 2 | After four years of service they could return home for a holiday with the family or bring out their wives and children , providing they had found accommodation for them . |
| 3 | They often do this by letting out or bringing in their mooring line , so keep an eye on them to see which direction they move it in , if at all . |
| 4 | West German attention remained centred on the affairs of Central Europe — nor had the Germans either completely liberated themselves from or lived down their own past . |
| 5 | Instead they went in for archaic exclamations such as ‘ Botheration ! ’ or made up their own : ‘ Slitherkins ! ’ |
| 6 | By making written work ( of all kinds — including Maths , Science and Artwork for example ) a part of their drama we provide a sort of safety net , a " No Penalty Zone " in which they can pretend to be someone other than themselves writing their letter , wording their advertisement or drawing up their menu … |
| 7 | And learn a trick or ten for coping with t'others — or keeping out their way . |
| 8 | It is likely to be up to 10 years before the banks would be able either to sell their stake on the local stock market or to pass on their holdings to other investors . |
| 9 | Outside AW 's erm , specialists books er , er , markets er , book sales have been almost universally slow there were very high returns as book sellers everywhere reacted to reduced er , demand by replacing or winding down their stock . |
| 10 | The original board ( linked by the presence of John Locke to the Carolinas and the colonies of the 1660s ) helped to unite the two New Jerseys , and continued the policy of encouraging proprietors to sell or give up their special powers and turn their domains into royal colonies . |
| 11 | ( A stoa was a long , colonnaded building which contained shops and offices and enabled people to shop or carry out their business in privacy and protected from rain or hot sun ) . |
| 12 | ‘ In the last year some of the rooms have been transformed , because we actually encourage clients to buy or bring in their own beds . |
| 13 | So whether your students are studying for exams or brushing up their English for professional reasons , this dictionary will deliver the answers — often before the question has even been asked ! |
| 14 | Because neither has examined or thought out their views , or the reasons why they hold them , there is serious misunderstanding when attitudes and behaviour clash . |
| 15 | At best , it treats these categories independently , situating psychological subjects in one or the other , or adding up their deviancies . |
| 16 | The pressures of racism have led to black people using dangerous skin bleaches , and having plastic surgery to change their features ; and to black children playing at miming peeling off their skin or pulling out their hair , in ‘ what I like/do n't like about myself games . |
| 17 | Similarly , for those users contemplating ‘ coming off ’ or cutting down their drug use the links between members of township networks and those between the networks themselves provided a dynamic body of ‘ knowledge ’ based on the user 's direct experience of available services . |
| 18 | When some boys at the school put excrement under the headmaster 's chair , he contrasted the culprits unfavourably with true school sportsmen : ‘ Last Friday I was feeling pretty low when I found out about this lot … but then I went to football on Saturday , there were several lads and teachers there , playing their hearts out or giving up their time just for the school , and then I thought , ‘ Perhaps , it 's not so bad after all . ’ |
| 19 | This is an alternative to war which states could in theory accept without giving up their own moral values , going back on their own factual claims , losing their dignity in the community of nations , or giving up their political endeavours to persuade others to their point of view . |
| 20 | ‘ Either to stay in their insufferable homes , or to kick up their heels in the streets … |
| 21 | Skinny old men stood around talking in groups , or counted up their change for a visit to the rum shop . |
| 22 | Four senior officials in the Foreign Affairs and Interior ministries were dismissed or resigned over their role in granting him entry . |
| 23 | The fact that he died in the following April does not seem to have put anyone off or taken away their faith in Pau 's salutariness . |
| 24 | A section 6(2) order should be directed to individual transactions with payment being directed to be made to individual investors upon the individual investors retransferring their Euramco shares or delivering up their Euramco share certificates . |
| 25 | will at 's option either give to all assistance reasonably required by in connection with such proceedings or take over their conduct . |
| 26 | 8.7 In the event that any proceedings are brought against other than in the circumstances described in clause 8.5 ( and including , but not limited to , those arising out of any acts or omissions of in its exercise of its rights under this Agreement or otherwise in connection with alleged defects in the Licensed Products ) , will at 's option either give all assistance reasonably required by in connection with such proceedings or take over their conduct . |
| 27 | No eyes beheld them for any of its windows ; no one beat a carpet or scraped a cauldron or swilled out their slops . |
| 28 | Delegates hooted in disgust or yanked up their ties to imitate nooses . |
| 29 | I mean they 're not doing their own housework or clearing up their own rubbish , they 're doing it for you . |
| 30 | We could not afford to allow the Borders farmers to suffer the terrible experience of stopping farming or reducing drastically their supplies of barley to the whisky industry . |