Example sentences of "with their [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The strength of the personal relationship with our account manager has allowed us to get through a number of fairly serious problems , ’ says Mr Miller , who believes the owners of small businesses need to make extra efforts to communicate with their bankers during hard times . |
| 2 | The rest of the great narrative , right up to the end of the Books of Kings , and the prophetic books of the Old Testament also , will make clear what this decision costs God , and the Gospels of the New Testament will make it even plainer with their accounts of the passion and death of Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 3 | He remembered the local papers of his youth , with their accounts of flower shows , weddings and the meetings of societies . |
| 4 | These creatures appear to be crinoids that have neither stalk nor rootlets and are lying in an inverted position with their mouths on the ground and their five arms outstretched . |
| 5 | I think even Control Room where at one stage it was a , a male domain , it is not so now there 's , there 's , I would think now there 's a predominance of women there , erm purely I think again that Control Room work suits them better , they , they , they concentrate better , I think , they , they lend themselves better to that type of work and they 're more dextrous with their fingers on , on these buttons and , and typewriters and , and other things |
| 6 | I step over tiny children drawing with their fingers in spit on the rusty floor outside our cabin . |
| 7 | Until he arrived , the poor bastards in the area would have to sit with their fingers in their ears . |
| 8 | During the summer , thousands of artists up and down the country queue up with their paintings on handing-in days at local art exhibitions . |
| 9 | But now said that although he and Mary were already filling a second room with their bits of furniture and stuff , of course they would move it all out at once , if that room were needed by anyone to live in . |
| 10 | The children in the Extract deal with their findings with more maturity as they appreciate the different species and new findings . |
| 11 | In May 1992 they were convicted of ‘ rebellion ’ in connection with their activities as members of MAR . |
| 12 | Achievement conscious pupils may conspire with their teachers in this process of limitation too , drawing them back to safer pedagogical ground when exploration threatens to divert them from their examination destination . |
| 13 | Note the little half-moon windows and the niches with their statues of pagan gods . |
| 14 | Armed with their texts of the Lion 's own travel guide to the town , Our English Watering Place , The Lionisers were arrayed in their seaside appeared , no less excited at the beginning of their week 's holiday than had been Auguste 's pupils . |
| 15 | Some male damselflies stay with their mates after copulation and fight off any other males who come near ; only after the female has laid her eggs does the male leave her . |
| 16 | Some dropped out and got into drugs , others just fancied drinking with their mates in the pub . |
| 17 | They have become wildly popular , with their record sales and media profile , without knowing how to work with an audience , how to project , how to sell their performance or how to deal with their emotions on stage . |
| 18 | Mr Marland says teenagers need practical information on how to use condoms as well has to deal with their emotions concerning sex . |
| 19 | Unlike the damaged narcissists , with their compensations of spurious glory or morbidly melodramatized misery , the new pop workers want attention not for themselves , not for their make-believe world , but for what they have to say about the outside world . |
| 20 | I have known those to whom the gift of enchantment was sheer delight ; who sparkled with their powers like fireflies after nightfall . |
| 21 | I wanted to be accepted by those around me , and so joined in with their stories of soldiering , sex and drinking prowess . |
| 22 | I will not therefore take the time of the House with the conventional lengthy explanation of the detail of what are in fact relatively routine pieces of annual business , such as the guaranteed minimum pensions order and the draft contributions rerating order , which are very much in line with their predecessors over a number of years . |
| 23 | Mr Hindmarsh said of the 2,300 postal workers in the Darlington area : ‘ I am quite satisfied that most staff are happy with their conditions of employment . ’ |
| 24 | Some always go for a drink at the pub with their friends on Friday nights , some always go to Bingo on Thursday nights , and so on . |
| 25 | Their leaders — who keep in touch with their friends in the Senate — are Tim Penny , of Minnesota , and Dave McCurdy , of Oklahoma , both members of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council ( which is chaired by Mr Breaux ) together with Charles Stenholm , who represents a great chunk of west Texas . |
| 26 | For these reasons , people buy food and drink , pay rent or buy a house , purchase insurance , and meet up with their friends in clubs , pubs , churches , professional institutions and so on . |
| 27 | Academic staff may use appropriate systems for the development of their computing expertise ; for research projects ; for the support of teaching ; for the exchange of academic information with their peers or with their students throughout the Janet linked institutions in the UK or elsewhere ; and for related access to public domain facilities . |
| 28 | Hazel squatted on his haunches and stared at the orderly forest of small , glaucous trees with their columns of black-and-white bloom . |
| 29 | Finally , if the Prime Minister says , as he rightly does , that one of the centrepieces of reshaping the United Nations so that it can cope with the new challenges to world peace is to strengthen the United Nations ' peacekeeping capacity , why is it that the Government are , I am told , $8 million in arrears with their dues towards United Nations ' peacekeeping ? |
| 30 | Unfortunately many couples make that pledge and then proceed to deal with their finances in a very ‘ his and hers ’ mode . |