Example sentences of "[verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long had she and Jezrael observed their parents to forestall their anger ? |
| 2 | It is repeatedly being copied and recopied as the generations go by , like the Hebrew scriptures which were ritually copied by scribes every 80 years to forestall their wearing-out . |
| 3 | Charlemagne and Louis the Pious had found ways to forestall their losing out too much by such cosy local arrangements . |
| 4 | The modern veterinary surgeon does not see nearly as many cases of distemper as we used to , simply because most people immunize their puppies at the earliest possible moment . |
| 5 | But that wo n't be any consolation on Christmas morning when my kids empty their stockings and find no trace of the Tracys . |
| 6 | They will take out overdrafts , empty their building society accounts , even sell their second houses . |
| 7 | I was still off the chain so could at least go to the little bathroom and fill the others ' water-bottles and empty their pee-bottles . |
| 8 | They have honed their skills as developers and operators in privatisations elsewhere . |
| 9 | He was a active member of the Society , which he described as ‘ the best of the local Societies ’ , and had addressed their meetings . |
| 10 | One of the oddities , though , is when C and M slip across a piece that has little or nothing to do with the high-tech graphics which preface their speciality corner . |
| 11 | preface their statement with a question . |
| 12 | The law is so rigorous and so thorough that it would be difficult to misunderstand the import of the statutory legislation which governs the property of the Palestinian Arabs who fled their homes in 1948 and who — by the same law — can not return . |
| 13 | While Raisa chatted in Moscow and Gorbachev emphasised his commitment to reform , the Communist leaders in Moldavia fled their rostrum when nationalist demonstrators waved banners . |
| 14 | For while she returned her kingdom to full doctrinal and liturgical conformity with Rome , many English Protestant exiles fled their homeland and took up residence in Strasbourg , Zurich , Emden , Frankfurt , and Geneva , where they gained first-hand experience of the Zwinglian and Calvinist forms of Protestantism , and became fully immersed in the Calvinist theology of grace and salvation . |
| 15 | East of the Oder-Neisse river , the Allies had agreed to place lands ‘ under Polish administration ’ and most Germans living there fled their homes , creating a daunting refugee problem in western Germany . |
| 16 | Their origins stem from France where old Mr Fauchon years ago told me his forebears were Huguenots , who fled their country from a small place bearing the family name of Fauchonville . |
| 17 | President Bush declared a state of emergency as up to a million people fled their homes . |
| 18 | Thousands of Palestinians fled their jobs in Israel and returned home , denouncing the shootings as a massacre of innocents , and calling on Arabs to observe three black days of mourning . |
| 19 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 20 | There were no sudden changes in direction even though employers and government began to modify their attitudes towards trade unions in such a way as to encourage negotiations at the highest level . |
| 21 | The aim of everyone , irrespective of weight , should be to modify their eating very slightly to maximize health benefits . |
| 22 | Although both men were forced to modify their opinions later in life , initially they held the extreme ‘ nominalist ’ and ‘ essentialist ’ positions . |
| 23 | The jurors , having appeared before the king , were induced , probably by threats of amercement and imprisonment , to acknowledge their error and to modify their perambulations ; they then received the king 's pardon . |
| 24 | Since this situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future , professional social workers and social work educators need to modify their profession-centred view of service provision in order to make the best use of available personnel . |
| 25 | you can do much to help other people , whether they be your superiors , associates , colleagues or subordinates , to modify their feelings and behaviour for better . |
| 26 | To prepare multilayer films , the Israeli scientists first needed to modify their special molecule . |
| 27 | Those who have accepted ideas about their worthlessness , their impotence or their badness will not usually be able to help themselves unless and until they are able to modify their self-image . |
| 28 | The area underlain by marble was accurately delineated by means of closely spaced specially drilled deep boreholes , and the resulting maps have allowed the town planning authorities to modify their layouts . |
| 29 | ( I doubt that men are reading magazines which counsel them to modify their style in order ‘ to communicate better with all the women in your life ’ ! ) |
| 30 | We saw in Sweden they tried to modify their game to fit in with the Continental style and it did n't work . |