Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buildings may remain structurally intact but tilt like rows of old tombstones as their foundations lose their grip . |
| 2 | The lowly ‘ polis ’ , with little or no power in the system , deplores this situation and complains of its escalation , while the detectives moan about the incompetence of the uniform ‘ wollies ’ who never get close enough to their prisoners to extract their own ‘ coughs ’ or admissions and who fail to understand that the system largely depends on the ability of the department to manipulate a statistical norm in detected crimes . |
| 3 | The fishermen and their children have a habit of holding fish between their teeth to prevent their escape while searching for another . |
| 4 | In this time of drought , many have sold their possessions to feed their families . |
| 5 | The men called to each other across the floor or wandered from group to group , while their womenfolk exchanged their own news in undertones . |
| 6 | They 're young and poor and the patriarchal culture they inherit and the conspicuous consumption of their contemporaries sanctions their irresponsibility . |
| 7 | Schmidt , Hunter and their associates applied their new techniques to data from many samples drawn from a large number of different occupations . |
| 8 | It happens in the musical world that conductors sometimes rely on their performers to do their work for them ; it is currently happening rather too often in the field of ‘ early music ’ . |
| 9 | This works even when recipients are away from their desks providing their PC is left on — ‘ far more efficient than sticking a Post-It note on their screen , ’ Richard smiled . |
| 10 | Ideologies of management are needed to buttress a system of inequalities in organizations and the major social injustice of the ‘ daily routine of men and women wasting their lives and their intellects to gain their livelihoods ’ ( Salaman 1980b , p. 1 ) . |
| 11 | Large practices are more and more expecting their solicitors to do their own advocacy , and not instruct counsel . |
| 12 | All these still have clues in their plans to show their origins . |
| 13 | Henry J. held that the intention of strikers was to put pressure on their employers to improve their conditions of service and not to disrupt the plaintiffs ' contracts , even though that was an unavoidable by-product of the strike . |
| 14 | There were technicalities to handle and , above all , the management of time was important while heads and their deputies led their colleagues through new patterns of requirement . |
| 15 | In deciding a strategy for the single market , UK businesses must plan and structure their policies to minimise their exposure and maximise the benefits they can draw from EC competition rules . |
| 16 | Sometimes young cuckoos are too vigorous in their attempts to remove their nest mates and fall out of the nest themselves . |
| 17 | On occasions in area offices , residential homes , day centres , as well as in family homes , staff may find themselves faced with aggressive and violent responses to their offers of help or to their attempts to fulfil their statutory or professional responsibilities to intervene . |
| 18 | Most buyers in any event have little interest in preventing such an assignment , and most sellers , at least in today 's economic climate , desire to retain the flexibility to sell off or secure their debts to assist their cash flow . |
| 19 | HOO HAH BOYS : A strange tribe of people from the south of Ireland who have no interest in the concept of life as we know it but instead tend to live out their winters bushing it ( See : BUSHING ) behind the Carlini factory and spend their summers drinking their way across Europe . |
| 20 | The route had been marked by the reconnaissance platoon ; even so , as they moved at speed past each key point vehicle commanders glanced at their maps to check their progress . |
| 21 | Out of sight , the Nez Perces milled their ponies to confuse their trail , then doubled north once more , concealed by the timbered mountain slopes . |
| 22 | And in my mind I saw them reaching between their legs to clutch their precious bags . |
| 23 | Tenants need help decorating their homes when they can no longer do it themselves , and owner occupiers on low incomes need both financial and practical help to adapt , repair and improve their homes to suit their needs , or just to make them habitable . |
| 24 | ‘ Others have re-mortgaged their homes to save their small businesses only to admit defeat and opt for bankruptcy . ’ |
| 25 | For this reason , many advisers recommend that their clients swop their unit-linked policies to the with-profits type about five years before they retire , provided market conditions are favourable at the time . |
| 26 | Their husbands brought their cars to the rally which is being held at the former car-plant at Dunmurry this weekend . |
| 27 | Her ears were n't full of the gentle chat of the middle-aged golf widows working on their tans while their husbands perfected their game . |
| 28 | Two thirds of men say they choose their ties to impress their wife or girlfriend |
| 29 | Their songs celebrate their ancient culture which dominated Bolivia before the Spanish conquistadores invaded 500 years ago . |
| 30 | The sound of their voices broke the nervous spell and both men dug in their heels to make their horses trot . |