Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] [adv] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( A stoa was a long , colonnaded building which contained shops and offices and enabled people to shop or carry out their business in privacy and protected from rain or hot sun ) . |
| 2 | Well what most airlines have done has been to try and trim back their scale of operations , but what Virgin are doing is using Richard Branson 's personal money to try and expand out of trouble . |
| 3 | People can begin to adjust and to think through their own preferences . |
| 4 | All the family found their grief for Julia hard to bear and to see how their father suffered grieved them still more . |
| 5 | The original board ( linked by the presence of John Locke to the Carolinas and the colonies of the 1660s ) helped to unite the two New Jerseys , and continued the policy of encouraging proprietors to sell or give up their special powers and turn their domains into royal colonies . |
| 6 | In most industrial countries these were recruited from marginal and footloose men , ready to work hard for good pay in bad conditions and to drink or gamble away their pay equally hard , with little thought for the future . |
| 7 | People have to choose whether to pay back their debts or feed their children . |
| 8 | I would like the boys to go and get out their topic folders and colour the map that shows all the things that the Romans are hoping to find in Great Britain . |
| 9 | ‘ In the last year some of the rooms have been transformed , because we actually encourage clients to buy or bring in their own beds . |
| 10 | For the first time the three students in the back began to relax and pull off their nylon masks . |
| 11 | Dippers begin to sing and to stake out their linear territories as early as November ; to display and pair in January ; and to lay the first of two — or three — clutches of eggs before the end of March . |
| 12 | Human beings are able to develop and pass on their culture by means of language , which is , of course , itself a product of culture . |
| 13 | The United Nations reception centres for Contra rebels to return and lay down their weapons , opened for business in an atmosphere of hope rather than anticipation . |
| 14 | Farmers , whether on a large or small scale , faced new demands on their managerial abilities and technical skills almost every day — decisions and actions they usually had to make and take on their own . |