Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admit I was party to their tricks for a while but in Brittany the Luciferi began to remove , through assassination or spurious trials , any who opposed the French crown . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're part of their scheme of things . |
| 3 | But the rumbling hulk of the ship was dense with the sounds and smells of men on pay-day — and she was part of their pay . |
| 4 | She was sure the neighbourhood would initially be outraged at her living alone , despite the presence of more servants than she knew what to do with , but she was proof against their opinion and she would only be a nine days ' wonder in any case . |
| 5 | Although they are characters they can not move or fight on their own , because they are part of their Mob . |
| 6 | For individuals , they are decisions about their personal life-style . |
| 7 | The Government fail to appreciate — although they are prisoners of their own rhetoric and ideology — several important points which others readily grasp and would clearly like to do something about . |
| 8 | That 's doubtless because originators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick are writing about themselves and their friends : like Michael Steadman , who is at the centre of this universe , they are Jews in their mid-thirties married to non-Jews and with young children . |
| 9 | They are classics of their time , as relevant today as ever they were to people climbing at that grade , with every move a gem where it counts . |
| 10 | She was to refer to them wryly as her ‘ yearly knitting ’ , but they are classics of their kind , deftly constructed with strong characterization and a meticulous prose style . |
| 11 | They are children in their love of pictures and music . |
| 12 | And they while they reckon condoms , by far the most popular form of contraception for teenagers , are sensible they are victims of their own self-consciousness because they are too afraid to buy them . |
| 13 | Pupils and teachers at Cheney say they 're victims of their own rigourous adherence to guidelines for working out the figures . |
| 14 | No there 's they were , they were called but they were agents for their own ships . |
| 15 | They were slaves of their own chemistry , following a blind biological urge . |
| 16 | ‘ When I first saw them I thought they were costermongers with their black and white trousers . |
| 17 | And for the second week running , the encouraging thing about this game , was that Town still managed to win , even though they were way below their best and that 's the hallmark of a successful side . |
| 18 | In doing so they were part of their time . |
| 19 | One famous example of this was when he asked students to pretend that they were boarders in their own homes , and to behave accordingly . |
| 20 | At this point , inevitably , they were dissidents from their class , and in one sense rebels against it , but in a specializing way , in that they found in the arts of painting and poetry an alternative to the dominant social and cultural order . |
| 21 | Until 1958 , females , even though they were peeresses in their own right , were not admitted . |
| 22 | He only realised they were vibrancers by their costume , for their postures were lax and their hair , unlike the tidy short haircuts of Por Tanssie students , very long . |
| 23 | All the girls I used were n't bimbo model types — they were people in their own right . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ If a woman upsets you , all right — it 's part of their function in life . |
| 25 | Er , yes , well , I 'd , I 'd , er , I 'd like to make two proposals , first of all that we formally congratulate our officers for leading the team that er , put together this successful bid , erm , but I 'd also like to say something about these concerns about the boundaries because it 's Oswestry again , amongst mainly the sort of north of the county around Oswestry , which like with the rural development area , could be left out , and , of course , economic development does n't stop at a parish boundary people cross it , it 's part of their economic activity and erm , I know that some of the sort of proposed projects put together for the use of this five B money , er , around the Oswestry area , are extremely desirable projects , er , and are achievable projects , and it would be a tragedy if er , if they were , if , if we failed to achieve them because of er , a kind of a bureaucratic dotted line which say you ca n't have the money because you 're the wrong side of the line . |
| 26 | I do n't know , I do n't know , er , I , I , I 'm not really up into this , but for example , the reason that McDonald 's uses red , is because it 's part of their culture of being classed in an so if you used green . |
| 27 | Yeah but it 's part of their |
| 28 | It 's way past their bedtime . ’ |
| 29 | It 's sort of their local type of thing . |
| 30 | Yeah , but it depends what , how it takes , what form it takes if he 's if it 's sort of their others are of similar ability , okay , but if it 's because , if people do n't take any notice of him because of |