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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Generosity , happiness and warmth abound in their presence — I so appreciate their friendship , especially when my wife was ill with leukaemia . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I just arranged their marriage . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I soon developed their reflexive habit of checking behind whenever someone walked towards me in a fairly empty street . |
| 9 | I turned to him and said , ‘ By the way , someone just put their head round the door . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ No , ’ I repeated , ‘ Someone just put their head round the door . ’ |
| 11 | I always ask their advice before important changes ( moving house/changing job/marriage ) . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | They did not seem pleased to see me , in fact they more or less ignored me , but I hardly noticed their rudeness . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They are among the most hypersensitive exters — extraterrestrials — I 've ever encountered , and I almost refused their commission for that reason . |
| 16 | There is always someone there to take their place . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I never had their support . |
| 21 | ‘ Everyone just dipping their hand in . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Zinkernagel showed that natural quartz grains have a luminescence which apparently reflects their source ( or , more correctly , their thermal history ) . |
| 27 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
| 28 | The user is then free to choose the environment which best matches their use characteristics or which improves their aggregate efficiency measured in time , error or quality terms . |
| 29 | The " fixed-alternative " question provides respondents with a selection of answers , " yes " or " no " or " do n't know " being the simplest , from which they have to make the choice which best reflects their answer to the question . |
| 30 | They were produced at a time when lay people were being targeted for instruction in ways which further fostered their consciousness as individuals with self-defining choices to be made by the programme for revitalising the mission of the Church instituted by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215 . |