Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] their [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Modern scholars have found proof that from here they continued to withdraw north-eastwards , groups of them eventually making their way to the vicinity of the Tigris-Euphrates basin , the region which now constitutes the border between Syria and Iraq .
2 As Citrine had earlier told his colleagues , a tactical retreat of accepting the Minister 's suggestion and then showing it to be ineffective would enable them better to assert their independence in future .
3 But despite the place given to women , most of the programmes are organised around a male presenter who ‘ manages ’ the women and brings them in to contribute their bit of knowledge .
4 I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery .
5 Our invaluable handbook , which otherwise retails at around £100 is included in membership — and members invariably find that knowledge gained via membership , be it from the Handbook , a seminar or fellow members , allows them annually to recover their membership subscription .
6 He said : ‘ Generosity , happiness and warmth abound in their presence — I so appreciate their friendship , especially when my wife was ill with leukaemia . ’
7 While Solomon is posing as a German soldier , for example , he makes a botched attempt to surrender to the Russians that results in his inadvertently capturing their position — but the irony is passed over in so offhand a fashion that one barely notices it .
8 However , how many times have you seen your ball deviate off course at the last moment due to someone not repairing their pitch mark ?
9 I just arranged their marriage . ’
10 It is very easy when someone finally opens their filter sufficiently to say ‘ I feel angry about such and such ’ or ‘ I feel fearful ’ to turn around and tell them why a Christian should not feel that way .
11 I soon developed their reflexive habit of checking behind whenever someone walked towards me in a fairly empty street .
12 I turned to him and said , ‘ By the way , someone just put their head round the door . ’
13 ‘ No , ’ I repeated , ‘ Someone just put their head round the door . ’
14 I always ask their advice before important changes ( moving house/changing job/marriage ) .
15 Our reception will be at the White Hart Hotel , Llandeilo , well known by most of the hierarchy of ( that 's where I always arrange their accommodation , staff dinners , etc ) and a few days in London will round off this long awaited event , quite nicely thank you !
16 They did not seem pleased to see me , in fact they more or less ignored me , but I hardly noticed their rudeness .
17 Well they keep complaining about the refectory food so they come over here and have mutton stew with me from time to time , and they I quite like their company .
18 They are among the most hypersensitive exters — extraterrestrials — I 've ever encountered , and I almost refused their commission for that reason .
19 There is always someone there to take their place .
20 In that ninety seconds I want every one of the 13 million viewers to concentrate on the speaker — not on someone else scratching their nose in the background .
21 Some women are financially dependent on other members of the family and so may be dependent on someone else to pay their Poll Tax bill .
22 Six months ago under their previous name Tombstone , I happily tagged their demo Worst Tape Of The Week and hid it under a large pile of old papers where it would n't offend anyone .
23 I never had their support .
24 ‘ He was always the one cast member who always stood up for me if there were any bleating from Equity members about them not getting their money from repeats , compilations and so on . ’
25 Everyone just dipping their hand in .
26 Taking pride in the military feats which raised Russia 's prestige , they aspired to erase the features which most disfigured their homeland : autocracy and serfdom .
27 Some of them , such as Mulvey 's films , and Tyndall , McCall , Pajaczkowska and Weinstock 's Sigmund Freud 's Dora ( 1979 ) , presupposed a knowledge of psychoanalytical theory which necessarily limited their appeal .
28 These were the copper sheathing which greatly reduced the fouling of their bottoms by weeds and the loss of speed this entailed ; and the carronade which greatly increased their fighting power .
29 The energy paths of every being which literally made their way along here before me have permeated the very fabric of the earth and my footsteps are well guided indeed .
30 Zinkernagel showed that natural quartz grains have a luminescence which apparently reflects their source ( or , more correctly , their thermal history ) .
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