Example sentences of "[noun] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Primary schools must respect children 's talk , as pupils put into words their thoughts and feelings , explore new ideas and deepen understanding . |
| 2 | In other words their comprehension is at fault , or put another way the text they are using is too difficult for them . |
| 3 | So in other words their monopoly begins with an N. |
| 4 | Desire was a leaping sheet of flame now , consuming Maria , the erotic furnace their mouths had become only an imitation of an inward eruption of molten passion that seemed to flow outward from the secret heart of her need , enveloping her utterly . |
| 5 | ‘ The employees know which side their bread is buttered . |
| 6 | Tories know on which side their bread is buttered — the heterosexual side . |
| 7 | I know that many killings are done for next to nothing but we are not dealing with street muggers or footloose louts , we are dealing with the middle-aged and the middle-class-people who know which side their bread is buttered and value their reputations almost more than their deeds and their share certificates . |
| 8 | But it sometimes helps if you remind key people which side their bread is buttered on , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 9 | REDCAR 'S Liberal Democrats , meanwhile , have discovered what side their bread 's buttered on . |
| 10 | A hawthorn hedge divided them on the left from the field belonging to Upmeadow Farm , while on the right-hand side their territory was bounded by a swift little stream . |
| 11 | The nursing skills the camp followers brought with them , must have reduced the number of fatalities and the contribution made by those who donned male attire , and fought along side their men can not be counted . |
| 12 | A suitable train was scheduled to pick up the wives of the workmen along side their homes . |
| 13 | While , therefore , the first generation of English Protestants had found the new Protestant liturgy a pale shadow of earlier Catholic ceremonial , there is every indication that by the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries their children and grandchildren had become firmly wedded to the Protestant services of the Prayer Book . |
| 14 | Theories about perception and knowledge which it has seemed possible to prove or disprove a priori turn out to depend on concealed analogies ; with the exposure of the analogy their foundations collapse . |
| 15 | Again most of these stars are red , with spectral types of M , R , N or S. Their amplitudes are less than for the Mira stars , and usually amount to little more than a magnitude . |
| 16 | In the light of these considerations their Lordships can not help viewing a statutory provision which criminalises statements likely to undermine public confidence in the conduct of public affairs with the utmost suspicion . |
| 17 | In spring their window was lit from above by the yellow glow of a thick row of bright daffodils . |
| 18 | The keepers of all precious stones and gems , dwarves are chary of speaking to humans for fear their treasures will be stolen . |
| 19 | I will see that happening , but it is the freedom of schools to choose that is all important , and there are some particular elements of expertise which are not available to schools because it 's not available centrally , and I believe that giving schools their budgets goes a great way to meeting this . |
| 20 | Nevertheless in many schools their lobby is a strong one , and even those who have no real sympathy with their priorities find it unfashionable to say so . |
| 21 | The prep schools have had their Orwell , the public schools their Connolly and Benedictus , the convent schools their Antonia White , the private boarding-schools their Waugh and Nicholas Blake . |
| 22 | The aim of this policy was to define parental rights and incidentally , mobilise parents by giving them more influence within the schools their children attended . |
| 23 | And there , in exactly the manner I have recommended for putting in clues in the traditional whodunit , Hammett gives his readers their clue , full-out and in the open but made to look as if it was there as part of the particularly laconic , cool conversation the two men are having over the newly-slain body . |
| 24 | Shock , but after a while their limbs 'll start trembling and they become very confused , now a person , a perfectly nice person , oh , you know , always very helpful and kind can suddenly become aggressive and they really do become aggressive and , if they go to violence their strength , oh where they get it from god only knows , but they could literally throw a person across the room . |
| 25 | Being public limited companies , the investment trusts can raise debt capital and gear their portfolios . |
| 26 | As a result their ex-pupils may compete better for those elite jobs which demand scientific credentials , while retaining the general socialisation we have described . |
| 27 | None the less many writers seem to imply that it is , and as a result their position is unclear . |
| 28 | As a result their work required very little skill . |
| 29 | If anything can be done ( by their officials ) to get the result their way , it will be done . ’ |
| 30 | As a result their supervisors feel threatened and do not know what new skills to supervise them on . |