Example sentences of "they [prep] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver was very surprised to see all this , and greatly admired them for controlling their sadness so well . |
| 2 | There are those critics of the polytechnics who regard this as a most unfortunate development and would go so far as to castigate them for betraying their primary purpose , which they see as providing for the communities in which they are located , something which of necessity can only be done primarily through part-time provision . |
| 3 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 4 | Her parents offered no explanation when police boarded their plane at Chicago airport yesterday to arrest them for abandoning their children . |
| 5 | A WEALTHY socialite was branded ‘ callous ’ by a grieving family yesterday — because she has never said sorry to them for killing their daughter . |
| 6 | ‘ As it is , this new crisis they 're having to face might be the thing to push them towards solving their difficulties . |
| 7 | And they go on holiday and they 're not supposed to , you know , they neither of them of told their boyfriend they go in this club and one of them , the married one , starts dancing with this man and like he , he thinks cos she 's dancing with him she likes him but she 's just having fun . |
| 8 | Now they 're blaming the government , saying it should have warned them against transferring their pensions into Maxwell 's hands . |
| 9 | Listen to Blur 's marvellous There 's No Other Way single and you 'll hear not only brilliant young musicians cutting free , but a producer who knows how to encourage his fellow workers and cajole them into producing their best in the studio . |
| 10 | He invited neighbours to meet me , cajoled them into opening their houses , and sent word on my behalf down every tendril of the Goan grapevine . |
| 11 | Vanessa looks at the familiar mucky mix of local political wheeler-dealing and multinational corruption with a Welsh village finding that embracing the entente cordiale fools them into having their lake turned into a French chemical waste dump . |
| 12 | But on closer examination he was forced to admit even he may have been wrong , and he demanded that the PWL stable looked after its young charges Kylie and Jason and prevented them from destroying their lives . |
| 13 | So , in fact you 're not going to do anything to them much in the way of discouraging them from removing their forest , by stopping them exporting small amounts of . |
| 14 | When someone or something stops them from getting their own way , their frustration can build up to explosion point . |
| 15 | Thus the common aim of both legal mechanisms is to force managers to maximize profits for their company and prevent them from maximizing their own utility . |
| 16 | The review of directors ' managerial decisions can be viewed as being motivated by a similar desire to ensure that directors exercise their powers only in accordance with the will of their constituents ( the shareholders ) and that they are subjected to the controls often associated with the Rule of Law to prevent them from using their power arbitrarily . |
| 17 | Some girls do n't even want to ask in case their parents get angry and ban them from seeing their boyfriends . |
| 18 | Sealink and P&O are estimated to have 80 per cent of the market and the undertakings barred them from pooling their services . |
| 19 | Soviet scholars and journalists could hint in their writings at problems in specific factories or could criticize particular managers or officials , but the censorship prevented them from generalising their observations into a critique of the system . |
| 20 | The Germans are a peaceful people , but they have a right to live , and to live as Germans , and they are convinced of the fact that they have a mission for all the nations of the earth ; if one hinders them from fulfilling their mission then they have the right to use force . |
| 21 | Most flesh-eating reptiles have simple spikes that prevent them from chewing their prey ; they have to gulp it down whole and then remain in a torpor for days or weeks to digest the meal . |
| 22 | The difficulty encountered by the expertise theory in trying to demonstrate the legitimacy of corporate managerial power by showing that there are restraints on the discretion of the managers stems from its attempt to combine a deference to the judgments of business managers with an insistence that corporate managers are subject to fiduciary duties that prevent them from exercising their power for their own purposes or for other non-corporate ends . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , this doctrine has become especially important to those who feel as a matter of Marxist science that the proletariat ought by now to have enacted a revolutionary response to the crises which are seen as always present ; and their failure to do so is therefore commonly explained as an aspect of false consciousness , which prevented them from recognizing their proper historical duty . |
| 24 | Bona fide NVOCC 's would have no objections to this practice , but bad faith NVOCC 's would oppose it because it would prevent them from issuing their own bills on a ‘ freight prepaid ’ basis after they had obtained ‘ freight collect ’ terms from the actual carriers . |
| 25 | While large firms have continued to increase their capital/labour ratios thus widening the productivity gap with smaller firms , this has certainly not prevented them from persuading their suppliers to improve the quality of their equipment . |
| 26 | An injunction to restrain them from persuading their members not to play there was refused . |
| 27 | But too often the system 's outdated working methods and attitudes prevent them from giving their best . |
| 28 | ARC Northern wants a relaxation of planning conditions which prevent them from working their roadstone coating plant at their Penmaenmawr quarry on Sundays . |
| 29 | the Beverley sisters were on and they said they used to wear very daring clothes and the B B C banned them from showing their navels , cos you 're not supposed to show your navel on television and you could n't say the word , oh yeah Lonnie Donegan was on and he said that he was banned from singing this song er in eighty forty was such a little drip and in it he says we beat the bloody British and they would n't let him sing that because he swore so he had to sing we beat the ruddy British |
| 30 | The first , and most obvious , is the desire to prevent the unjust enrichment of criminals by prohibiting them from exploiting their crimes . |