Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next paragraph states ‘ The scissor-like cutting action of their teeth enables them to reduce a full-sized human being to a mere skeleton in about four minutes ! ’ |
| 2 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 3 | These reforms have encouraged some historians to see the Despensers as ‘ much more than greedy and irresponsible favourites ’ , but their contemporaries judged them by their behaviour towards other landowners and by their position at court , rather than by their responsibility , however great it was , for what were essentially technical reforms in government . |
| 4 | Their enemies drove them out arid they were forced to live down in the marshes of Kelfazin . |
| 5 | The directors , who met weekly , acted as a house committee , and the minutes of their meetings show them to have been diligent in pursuing the objectives set out in the preamble to the Act of Parliament which had brought them into existence . |
| 6 | You have to get people out from behind their desks to see them clearly . |
| 7 | The Home Office say they 'll all be interviewed , but their visas entitle them to stay in Britain for six months . |
| 8 | They rarely lived in the countryside , but their investments brought them prestige as well as profits . |
| 9 | Maureen showed me how to insert food down their throats to force-feed them , because when birds are in shock like this they just wo n't eat . |
| 10 | Lack of employment prospects for the part-time family and lack of income potential on the family farm had led the sons/daughters to use training as a means of expanding their skills to allow them to undertake contract work . |
| 11 | Your midwife and doctor , though , see many pregnant women , so they need to use all their skills to help them build up a picture of your individual , unique pregnancy . |
| 12 | Before peasant farmers or small time traders can bring their products to market they usually need to buy an official permit . |
| 13 | Of the priests we know little , except where their transgressions brought them to episcopal notice . |
| 14 | Pigs wandered here with bells slung round their necks to show they were the property of the Hospital of St Anthony and could n't be slaughtered Beadles armed with steel-pointed staffs dispersed fowl or curbed the yapping of fierce yellow-haired dogs , whilst bailiffs tried to move on a strange creature dressed like a magpie in black and white rags . |
| 15 | They wore mushroom-shaped hats topped with glittering brass spikes , and white cloths fluttered at their necks to protect them from the sun ; all of them were barefoot , but Joseph noticed that their leg wrappings were yellow — the colour , as Tran Van Hieu had already pointed out , which was worn only by the emperor and his immediate entourage . |
| 16 | ‘ They spend their lives sewing shirts in dark attics , and their employers throw them a few pence for their pains ! ’ |
| 17 | Such cases may have been exceptional , but a great many servants seem to have passed their lives in households where their employers knew them by their functions , not their names . |
| 18 | Accessibility is not so important with the small , closed conferences because the participants are usually either highly motivated in the first place ( because of specialist interest or commitment ) or their employers require them to go or at least agree that they should . |
| 19 | They have been chosen for the posts in other parts of the country because their employers consider them to be the best people for these particular jobs . |
| 20 | Their shared experiences over the past 2,000 years , he argues , bring them together more than their conflicts force them apart . |
| 21 | If , if your , if your total turnover was sixteen thousand , then the inspector of taxes would want from you an account which shows how your fifteen thou sixteen thousand has been arrived at , who 's paid you this money because he looks at those and he checks their accounts to see they 've received it obviously , that 's what it is , and wh how is your five thousand pounds made up . |
| 22 | with their sticks to keep them steady . |
| 23 | Thus , while painting and decorating courses have rather faded because people do not want ex-prisoners inside their houses to decorate them , it is apparently much more acceptable to have an ex-prisoner in your house to repair your word-processor . |
| 24 | You know : the things youngsters stick on their cars to make 'em look like racers — but I 've never seen it done to a clapped-out old van before . ’ |
| 25 | Only when they saw the hooded men with blood-covered knives approaching their cars did they realise what lay in store for them . |
| 26 | They took assets on to their books assuming they would sell them at a profit shortly afterwards . |
| 27 | This does not mean that they did not liaise with other services for almost ail clients , merely that for only a third of their clients did they obtain or increase the services of other providers . |
| 28 | ‘ If they do n't drive , then they ask their husbands to give them a lift . |
| 29 | With the sum their husbands allowed them , wives organised the family budget , which in the first place involved solving the food/rent equation . |
| 30 | These women did themselves well , at least their husbands did them well . |