Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cat owners ' assessment of their health had returned to what they reported just before acquiring a feline friend , but dog owners continued to report improvements in their health and well being . |
| 2 | Any member with the inclination to organise a group , please contact Beverly Laughlin to arrange contacts within their area . |
| 3 | And they have decided to issue part of their deficit-financing bonds to the market at attractive interest rates , instead of forcing them down the throats of reluctant workers ( though the lack of a secondary market may still make them unappetising ) . |
| 4 | Mortimer and Isabella tried to cultivate support for their regime by lavish grants to the deposed king 's half-brothers the Earls of Norfolk and Rent : Rent , for example , was granted Despenser 's forfeited lands in Leicestershire . |
| 5 | ARABLE farmers seeking to optimise returns from their crops will be able to pick up tips at the two-day Cereal ‘ 93 National Cereals and Combinable Crops Event , which gets under way tomorrow . |
| 6 | Landlords are continuing to issue occupiers of their property with " licence agreements " ; only a very small proportion will appreciate that they are not bound by the agreement they have signed , and realise that they have the right to a fair rent and security of tenure . |
| 7 | Partly for financial reasons , students now tend to attend university in their home town rather than travel to a city with a better department . |
| 8 | Staff were asked to channel views through their Divisional rep — my views are set out below : |
| 9 | It 's also good news for men who are trying to lose weight around their hips and thighs and especially their waistlines . |
| 10 | At weddings of the unpretentious kind it was usual for one or two singers to perform songs of their own composition , epic epithalamiums sung to an accompaniment of gentle clapping , interspersed with an antiphonal falsetto nasal chant from another singer . |
| 11 | For the Kuwait Oil Tanker Company ( KOTC ) , the news , at a time of generally increasing premiums , that Lloyd 's had decided to include Kuwait in their definition of the War Zone was especially unwelcome . |
| 12 | Jack Birkenshaw , back where he has always felt he most belongs , has a hard job ahead in trying to restore Leicestershire to their long-lost glories . |
| 13 | ASAP uses this video to trigger dialogue on other students ' neighbourhoods , to break down stereotypes , and to excite more students to conduct research on their communities . |
| 14 | Teachers employed by the Region who wish to conduct research in their own school only require approval from their headteachers . |
| 15 | Both organizations gave an undertaking to curb violence among their members and committed themselves to political tolerance and freedom of political activity , recognizing the other 's right to exist " with its own policies and programmes " . |
| 16 | A United Nations air traffic and arms embargo against Libya was starting today over its refusal to extradite the two suspects to Britain or the United States to stand trial for their alleged involvement in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in December 1988 , which killed 270 people . |
| 17 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 18 | Along with marketing to attract more customers , the management changes throughout the sector have required that senior academics transform themselves into planners , seeking to attract money towards their work , rather than relying on the previous expectation that it would fall like manna from the principal 's office . |
| 19 | It is sometimes referred to as ‘ non-interventionist ’ observation , though I find that a rather jargonish term and I think bird-watching is a good simple way of referring to observation which is very similar to that of the ornithologist who constructs a ‘ hide ’ so as to be able to observe birds in their natural habitat without disturbing them in any way . |
| 20 | In an ideal world this would mean that a lot of clever people , all anxious to communicate enthusiasm for their subject , would talk helpfully about it to their colleagues . |
| 21 | A Leicester couple have just become the first to install a wind generator in their home to provide part of their electricity supply . |
| 22 | Warrington set out to contain Widnes in their own half and pressure them into mistakes , and met with early success on both counts . |
| 23 | There is evidence that sons make considerable efforts to provide support for their parents even when they are in straitened circumstances themselves . |
| 24 | It suits managers , producers and directors to encourage naïvety in their dancers . |
| 25 | The study will produce a detailed description and analysis of what young women know about sexuality and about AIDS ; the ideas which they have about risk , danger and control in sexual encounters ; how they behave sexually ; why they behave as they do , and what factors are likely to constrain or to encourage change in their behaviour . |
| 26 | All files which did not concern terrorism , espionage or organized crime would be removed from police hands and given to an independent body , and people would be able to obtain photocopies of their files ( and by the deadline of March 31 , 350,000 people had applied ) . |
| 27 | It was also a popular time for processions of witness or walking days , when the members of churches and Sunday schools of all denominations would walk together through the streets , stopping at selected places along the route to sing hymns to bear witness to their Christian faith . |
| 28 | When the US firm of Laventhol & Horwath folded in the face of a mass of litigation , the court required its partners to find $40m of their own money to help pay the creditors , and some of the partners have gone bankrupt . |
| 29 | Those who did not want to buy a bigger or better house were able to borrow more to extract equity from their fast-appreciating assets . |
| 30 | The unions would use the early settlements made in annual negotiations as a precedent to obtain leverage in their own bargaining and would attempt to improve upon them still further . |