Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the manufacturers of ‘ Summer 's Eve ’ have complained to you about my comments on their product , I thought I 'd copy to you this letter sent to their PR representative when she sent me literature and samples . |
| 2 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 3 | Her popularity and success — within the limits of an expanding middle class — was in part due to the numerous engravings she herself made , or that were made after her paintings with their moving subject matter drawn from Roman sources and from the history and literature of medieval and Renaissance Europe . |
| 4 | Because she knew she swelled and paled , in the grip of her look , she smiled even more and then invited them to start talking about their plans for their future home , which they did at once , and ceased to notice her . |
| 5 | Barefoot men jogged past , close-packed about their leaders on their colourfully bedecked , trippling mules ; groups of horsemen , mostly Galla , cantered past or were engulfed among yet more men on foot . |
| 6 | Relocation allowances for existing staff should not be reviewed as bonuses but as compensatory payments which enable employees to make decisions about their futures within their companies without worrying about financial pressures . |
| 7 | Now , perhaps because I 've had a baby , friends talk to me about sex , or about their relationships with their boyfriends , where before they would n't . |
| 8 | TERRIFIED college students were forced to swim for their lives after their bus plunged into a water-filled ravine in Calais , northern France . |
| 9 | I 've already answered the underlying question , I do believe that they should have the maximum discretion and then they should be answerable for their decisions to their local electors who want a good police service and want a good education service and there is money there for them to do it if that is their wish . |
| 10 | The idea that elderly people strive for ‘ intimacy at a distance ’ , as the preferred model for their relationships with their children , is a concrete expression of the norm that adult children 's independence and autonomy should be respected and protected . |
| 11 | Mothers caring for their children on their own may need to find outside employment , and the strain of the dual role may result in a chaotic lifestyle where the children get less attention , household chores remain undone and mealtimes and bedtimes become erratic . |
| 12 | Some years ago The Sunday Times invited parents ( representing a wide range of social backgrounds ) to list the things which they felt to be significant for their children in their years of primary schooling . |
| 13 | Resentment among the locals grows at their inability to find housing for their children in their village . |
| 14 | As yet , however , there was no indication from the accounts available to Gould that these different species of finch depended for their characteristics on their different localities . |
| 15 | Meredith backed out slowly to avoid other shoppers making for their cars with their overladen squeaky trolleys and set off out of town . |
| 16 | They would be able to claim benefit in their own right and for their husbands as their dependants . |
| 17 | I was allowed to disrupt a ‘ social skills ’ course — one of a number of educational opportunities for men apart from the usual classes — and took the opportunity to test out some of my impressions against their own , well-informed ones in a session that , in the end , lasted twice as long as its scheduled time . |
| 18 | I have reason to support the authority of my neighbours over their children , etc . |
| 19 | The Canongate sample is not necessarily typical , but in almost all these families , all children , boys or girls , gave a substantial part of their earnings to their parents , never less than half and usually more . |
| 20 | Railway restoration experts Winson Engineering have provided the following update of their activities at their Penrhyndeudraeth near Porthmadog . |
| 21 | Local authorities are no different in this respect from other large concerns , whether public or private , who must decide whether to provide all the components of their activities within their own organisations or to obtain some from outside suppliers . |
| 22 | These forms of disability representation naturalise the exclusion of disabled people from societies which are organised on an ability to gain employment and these representations are the target of non-disabled people for the ridding of their fears over their own ‘ able-bodied ’ decline , mortality or loss of power . |
| 23 | Those who rule states must always consider the ideological acceptability of their policies to their own people , as well as to people in other countries . |
| 24 | Some people express more of their feelings through their eyes , their hands or their whole posture than through their words . |
| 25 | Men living free to make the best of their lives on their own initiative . |
| 26 | Anne and Sarah were true to their pledge to enjoy every moment of their lives after their fright the previous September . |
| 27 | As with calls for euthanasia , it could be that a proper understanding by doctors of their duties to their patients , both ethical and legal , could obviate the need in large part for such developments . |
| 28 | Some of them were absorbed by the empire , where they constructed an administrative system remarkable for the degree of local autonomy exercised within it , and where they pursued , amid uncomprehending but generally unresisting natives , dreams of winning the trust and loyalty of their charges by their integrity , fairness , firmness , and likableness . |
| 29 | A number of phased retirement schemes have come on the market to enable people to stagger the purchase of their annuities under their pension arrangements . |
| 30 | The insect-eaters , however , get such an accurate picture of their surroundings from their sonar that they hardly use their eyes at all . |