Example sentences of "their [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And evidence shows that women feel more inhibited by things like not having cleaned their teeth or feeling grubby . |
| 2 | difficulties in the learning of simple actions , such as learning to brush their teeth or tie their shoes because of a difficulty in imitating . |
| 3 | All over the country , the mass-production industries such as cars and shipbuilding are either trimming their operations or shedding workers ( sometimes both ) . |
| 4 | No statute in terms prohibits offenders from telling their story or expressing their feelings . |
| 5 | Probably the majority of paedophiliacs suppress their inclinations or indulge them only in fantasy . |
| 6 | It is considered more conventional for girls to take arts subjects than sciences ; as convergers tend to be more conventional in outlook , girls are in something of a double bind — they have to decide whether to follow their inclinations or to make a ‘ conventional ’ choice . |
| 7 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 8 | The pressures of racism have led to black people using dangerous skin bleaches , and having plastic surgery to change their features ; and to black children playing at miming peeling off their skin or pulling out their hair , in ‘ what I like/do n't like about myself games . |
| 9 | Students dreaded being assigned to these small towns where there were few opportunities to develop their talents or lead an interesting life . |
| 10 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 11 | His early predictions of independence should probably not be taken as settled opinions but rather as conversational ploys : he often tried out extreme views on his audience , to test their reactions or to play out scenarios in his own mind . |
| 12 | For example the sport of crown green bowling , which was very little known outside of the north of England , has been shown to a wider public ; the greens are often oddly bereft of spectators , and the northern accents of the players are plainly audible as they urge on their woods or confer solemnly as a pair over the last bowl of an important ‘ end ’ . |
| 13 | Once others are brought in and contribute their money or support to a project , they also have a stake in making it work . |
| 14 | Since large serf-owners tended not to live on their estates or to know much about rural conditions , few of the people whom the tsar had charged with thinking about emancipation had any idea of the complexities of the task . |
| 15 | Pistoliers are young nobles , knights ' sons who are not old or experienced enough to win their spurs or join the Reiksguard . |
| 16 | The East Coast Puritans refused to alter their garb or touch the native food . |
| 17 | It provides criteria for notification , a workable timetable ( which could , however , be improved by shortening the time limits ) and a system for authorising mergers if the parties modify their plans or give undertakings . |
| 18 | If you would like to contact the Canine Crisis Council to give your opinion of their policies or find out more write to : PO Box 76 , Leicester or fax : 0533 743141 |
| 19 | All three of the agencies mentioned in the last paragraph have recently been the subject of central limitations to their activities or curbs upon their freedom ! |
| 20 | Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant . |
| 21 | People have to choose whether to pay back their debts or feed their children . |
| 22 | Er at least thirty percent of my business erm have either stopped their accounts or reached the limit of their patience . |
| 23 | The government adopted a decree on April 5 for the provision of homes and jobs to returning Turks , many of whom had sold their houses or found that the local authorities had bulldozed them in their absence . |
| 24 | The offence could be used against counter-demonstrators who set out to ‘ smash ’ their opponents or to stop them from expressing the point of view that they set out to express . |
| 25 | One has a duty to obey those in authority over one even in circumstances in which disobedience does not imperil their existence or functioning . |
| 26 | Others were content to sit and wait , reading their programmes or gazing around . |
| 27 | After a few days it may go onto their chest or settle in the liver causing a bilious fever and even jaundice . |
| 28 | O Lord Jesus Christ , the help of the helpless and companion of the lonely ; we ask You to bless all those from our family who are unable to leave their homes or to join in public worship . |
| 29 | The idea is graphically summarised by Alison Norman : ‘ We are all familiar with the advertisements and Christmas begging letters which ask for money in terms which suggest that old people are in danger of hypothermia or social isolation simply because they are old — not because they do not have sufficient incomes to heat and repair their homes or to pay for a taxi or telephone . ’ |
| 30 | Cuckoo nestlings do n't live inside robins or reed-warblers ; they do n't suck their blood or devour their tissues , yet we have no hesitation in labelling them as parasites . |