Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rifkind will meet the pair to formally congratulate them on their achievements in the town . |
| 2 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 3 | they can erm it can affect them in their later life and they hit out at people to show their affection . |
| 4 | But though the parts of a complex idea must , in some way , have come from experience , the complexes themselves need not have , for we can construct them from their parts . |
| 5 | The manager has been quoted as saying that the parents who wore Pakamacs in the fifties and sixties will buy them for their children . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't like to tell people , ’ she laughs , ‘ but I can recognise them by their smell . |
| 7 | The big funds realise that , in practice , they can not sell out of most companies they own for they will always need them in their portfolios . |
| 8 | And there is one particularly prescient episode , where a group of weavers attacks his house under the impression that he has invented a ‘ steam loom ’ that will rob them of their livelihood . |
| 9 | But they had a lively fear that enclosure might rob them of their valuable rights — rights which made a real difference to their standard and their mode of living — in the interests of the large freeholders and a corporation known to be corrupt . |
| 10 | All I intend to do is rob them of their chief copywriter . ’ |
| 11 | More radical socialists have been prepared to go even further : either insisting that markets operate within a framework of planning , or even proposing that markets themselves be ‘ socialized ’ , by inserting into them new institutions and procedures which will rob them of their tendencies to inequality and producer dominance . |
| 12 | I have found no such systematic problems , but if there are specific difficulties in some practices , those involved should discuss them with their regional health authority . |
| 13 | His arrogance and bullying alienated the Imperial family ; and in their desperation they called in the armies of the Hindu Mahratta Confederacy from the Deccan to help rid them of their troublesome Vizier . |
| 14 | Applicants are attached to a voluntary business advisor in their own area who will assist them with their initial business plan . |
| 15 | To provide hospitality companies with information and advice on the skills and knowledge requirements of managers working in different sectors of the industry , in various European countries , which will assist them in their reqruitment and human resource development activities . |
| 16 | Objectives of the research included : to provide hospitality companies with information and advice on the skill and knowledge requirements of managers working in different sectors of the industry , in some European countries , which will assist them in their recruitment and human resource development activities ; to identify the education and training needs of managers moving within the European hospitality industry and offer a basis for the design of short courses , distance leaning materials and training packages to meet those needs , in collaboration with European partners ; and to assess the extent to which the skills and knowledge required by hospitality managers are generic and may be transferable across different industries . |
| 17 | At first , the imperial authorities saw no danger in a Ukrainian cultural awakening and even thought it might assist them in their conflicts with the Poles . |
| 18 | The town 's ‘ Oompah ’ band , dressed in traditional costumes , gives regular concerts , and the well known ‘ Hauser ’ group will delight you with their noisy Schuhplatter dances , singing and yodelling . |
| 19 | A practical use is to give warning , if someone enters the room a few hand claps or knock at the door may alert you to their presence ; the shock of someone approaching you silently is avoided . |
| 20 | Consequently , the 50 old-age pensioners have a 10-minute walk to catch the local bus , whereas previously they could catch it near their front door . |
| 21 | They showed this to Auntie Lou and she gave them a frame so that they could hang it in their bedroom , but they did n't look at it much . |
| 22 | In Walsall Wood erm as I say , we used to have er two big bags full on a Fri Friday and then in the week we could go up but you 've got your bread but , you know , yo the men would be , I can just picture them with their little , all this pretty coloured paper would all be in little piles and when there were no customers , they would be wrapping the rice , the raisins , the currants , all in these pretty papers you see and they knew , I mean you 'd ask them for currants and they never sort of knew , I did n't quite understand how they could pick by , it 'd be by the paper you see . |
| 23 | But Blake vowed : We 'll beat them at their place . ’ |
| 24 | For example , if UK imports and capital outflows from the UK are paid for in sterling , then foreigners receiving these sterling payments will exchange them for their own currencies in the foreign exchange markets , and so the supply of pounds in these markets will rise . |
| 25 | By jumping and bumping your head under the platform the tortoises are walking , on you can tip them onto their backs , they are then helpless to move . |
| 26 | By jumping and bumping your head under the platform the tortoises are walking , on you can tip them onto their backs , they are then helpless to move . |
| 27 | Nothing will dissuade them from their evil plans . |
| 28 | We could send them on their way with the odd arrow , maybe . |
| 29 | That 'd bring them from their beds . ’ |
| 30 | They are greedy for Humans , the sidh , and if they can once trap you with their music they will carry you down to the caves beneath the sea and steal one of your five senses and tear out your soul . ’ |