Example sentences of "[v-ing] their [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For prison staff , opening their doors has been a chance to show people the reality of a modern jail . |
| 2 | Compaq Computer Corp and its 80486 interests , not any technical or manufacturing woes , are behind Intel Corp 's decision to delay the Pentium until May , BusinessWeek claims : well , schucks , that 's not what we hear — our sources , who are cooling their heels waiting for chips , continue to think that Intel is having problems making the parts in quantity ; given the new timetable , it still says samples should be more available than they are . |
| 3 | His office says he has kept at least 20 top-flight journalists and analysts cooling their heels waiting to interview him since October . |
| 4 | Our sources , who are cooling their heels waiting for chips , continue to think Intel is having problems making the parts . |
| 5 | He is conducting a field trip to some of the places where once ‘ black smokers ’ rose above the floor of a long-vanished ocean , depositing their minerals to form the ore mined millenia later . |
| 6 | The fact is that all the examples adduced to support the proposition that there should be a qualitative — or ‘ radical ’ — extension of the role of trade unions into the management of the business employing their members fail at the crucial oint . |
| 7 | Fifteen successful match outfits will be keeping their fingers crossed that a quick thaw is on its way before the weekend . |
| 8 | Biddy had produced crash-helmets for Hoomey and Nails and they were all keeping their fingers crossed that Jazz 's turban would be allowed as a substitute , as for motor-cyclists ; they had also acquired jodhpurs and boots second-hand ( one pair from Mrs Smith herself ) and a roughly matched set of yellow jerseys . |
| 9 | September will see a much grander array of weird shaped balloons , so the organisers will be keeping their fingers crossed that nothing serious happens again . |
| 10 | A lot of people are keeping their fingers crossed for him . |
| 11 | DOWNPATRICK and Down Royal executives will be keeping their fingers crossed next week that there will be strong declarations for their meetings on Wednesday and Saturday respectively . |
| 12 | As well as keeping their eyes peeled for surface coins and jewellery , beachcombers also look for non-metal items on their foreshore hunting grounds . |
| 13 | The professional diplomatists had the duties of representing their own states , of negotiating for them , of observing , and of keeping their governments informed . |
| 14 | Amid tight security the Presidents of the United States , Colombia , Peru and Bolivia met in the Colombian Caribbean resort of Cartagena and signed on Feb. 15 the Cartagena Declaration , pledging their governments to intensify and co-ordinate efforts to curb the consumption , production and trafficking of cocaine . |
| 15 | It is a simple matter of relating their minds to profit : customer minds , colleagues ' minds , suppliers ' minds , employees ' minds and your own mind . |
| 16 | The arolium and pulvilli are pad-like organs enabling their possessors to climb smooth or steep surfaces : the plantulae also have a similar function . |
| 17 | Not self-pity but exertion was what they told themselves was the first requirement , applying their skills to return to normal , to restore the status quo . |
| 18 | Slowly , inch by inch , the three men advanced the half mile across no-man's-land , towards the Allied front line , pressing their faces back down into the mud whenever the moon reappeared from behind its unreliable screen . |
| 19 | The Korean War brought some increases , but the Americans were soon pressing their allies to spend still more on armaments . |
| 20 | Both just have one more examination to pass before gaining their Securities Institure Diploma . |
| 21 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |
| 22 | Owing to the perfect weather the tables were all taken outside and detector users sunbathed on the grass , whilst checking their tokens to see if their number was going to be chosen for a major prize . |
| 23 | ‘ Too busy fattening their geese to listen , I suppose . |
| 24 | Perhaps long exposure to tennis , bad public transport , English weather and the sight of miserable middle-aged people walking their dogs had driven this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis right round the bend . |
| 25 | People walking their dogs trail their evening shadows across him . |
| 26 | Initially , discussions about the state sharing with parents the cost of maintaining their children took place predominantly among socialists or left-wing groups who supported the principle as a worthy end in itself . |
| 27 | Rather , what they wanted was to go on living and building their properties according to their own circumstances and preferences within their own neighbourhoods . |
| 28 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 29 | There can be nothing worse for those employed in any industry than to have their incomes drastically reduced for two years on the trot and then be left twirling their thumbs wondering whether at the end of the next year they will still be in business — whether they can continue to be farmers and produce the food that Britain can use . |
| 30 | Smith and Hogan , Criminal Law , 6th edn , Butterworth , 1988 , 559 n6 , comment : " [ T ] his seems a surprising decision as it would surely astonish bankers to learn that by issuing such cards they are allowing their customers to borrow by way of overdraft to an unspecified amount " ( their emphasis ) . |