Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letter , addressing me chummily as Nigella , exhorted me to rescue men from the cruel tyranny of women , or at least to lend my support to their cause of ‘ Fighting Back For Fellas ’ Per-lease ! ’ |
| 2 | I am honoured and delighted to offer my support to their cause but also my help to raise public awareness about the importance of their needs . ’ |
| 3 | The keepers also appear to be a knowledgeable and dedicated group of people , for whom I can only express my admiration of their hard work . |
| 4 | ‘ The girls had taken my truck for their trip , ’ he said . |
| 5 | It is my way of showing my appreciation for their support , and it comes from the heart . |
| 6 | I mean I have forgiven them their fighting against my ambition for their ambitions . |
| 7 | And I suppose the general coldness of my tone conveyed my disapproval of their activities . |
| 8 | who pity my grasp of their mother tongue . |
| 9 | It was a way of escape and I buried my nose in their fragrance . |
| 10 | ‘ Seven days after my departure from their dwelling heavy rains suddenly set in ; the mountain-streams selled into foaming torrents , filling the deep gullies ; the rivers rose , some to the height of forty feet , bearing all before them . |
| 11 | When she subsided , her face mutinous , he continued grimly , ‘ Lying on my back in their spare room , bored and in pain , forced to lie still , I watched the television that your parents were kind enough to install . |
| 12 | Mr. Raffan : Will my right Hon. Friend join me in congratulating the miners at Point of Air in my constituency for their dramatically increased productivity since the miners ' strike ? |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , as I say , the worthy burghers of Oswaldston would not have asked me to spread the artistic products of my maturity before their admiring gaze if it had n't been for the Machin boom . |
| 14 | I would ask you to point out this dramatic increase to the people of your parish and to thank them on my behalf for their generous efforts . |
| 15 | Then they came here to my island with their prisoners , to kill them , cook them , and eat them . |
| 16 | ‘ To have a go-between , one who could move freely betwixt Tower and Westminster , betwixt my sons and myself , would greatly relieve my concern for their welfare . ’ |
| 17 | On first seeing All Quiet on the Western Front it was as if the whole cast had marched through my life on their way to Wallsend station and the battlefields of Europe . |
| 18 | The Captain 's name is I. McKeller and the mates Murray so you see we can not do without your countrymen and candidly I shall place my life in their hands with the utmost confidence . |
| 19 | ‘ When Glyndebourne commissioned my Paraphrase for their 1992 Mozart season , it was they who determined which opera I should use as a background for my piece . |
| 20 | People often asked me the time just to hear my voice so they could proclaim my gender to their friends . |
| 21 | I crashed my plane in their back yard . |
| 22 | It 's the legions again making straight for my garden with their big feet . |
| 23 | Having written a fairly scathing account of this approach in draft , I sent it to John Austin Baker ( as I have also sent my account of their work to Christian feminists whom I discuss in this book for comment ) only to receive a delightful letter from him which rescinded much that he had written , explained that he had been given the title , and essentially agreed with my criticism ! |
| 24 | I had n't understood , until now , why it was so important for the Quigleys to make contact with my dad at their house . |
| 25 | The success of new forms of disability representation can be judged in my estimation by their consumption by disabled people and their ability to mobilise disabled people into action . |
| 26 | The King , who had not forgotten the sermons of Andrewes , told Parliament that ‘ Princes are not bound to give account of their actions but to God alone ’ and that ‘ Parliaments are altogether in my power for their calling , sitting and dissolution ; as I find the fruits of them to be good or evil they are to continue or not to be . ’ |
| 27 | The people I like best of all are those who write to me several times as this gives me ‘ feed-back ’ on whether my solution to their original problem was correct , or the information I provided useful . |
| 28 | One of the things we 've been doing this year is to actually have a club once a week , a sort of club night , when teachers can come it — this is particularly primary teachers — and use our machinery , look at our programs , go through our library and meet each other , so that the people who have got some expertise can then go back to the school and sort of spread their information and their enthusiasm in their schools . |
| 29 | ‘ The social implication is what people respond to on a broader scale , their access to technology , their access to information , their comprehension of their environment — as soon as you start to manipulate that , then you get what I think was always related psychedelic experiences . |
| 30 | International Day — the first day that local schools begin their support of their adopted nation in the ‘ Welcome to the World ’ project . |