Example sentences of "[prep] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a lot of inertia in the landscape with places persisting even after their former economic base has disappeared . |
| 2 | The idea that families do not ‘ look after their own ’ is not found to be true in practice . |
| 3 | As well as looking after their own members , the Branches have supported the efforts of the Association within the UK . |
| 4 | I think in the long view it is all to the good that the government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared before we come in . |
| 5 | Naturally , Germans are sensitive about war after their own defeat and destruction , followed by decades of division . |
| 6 | Here was an Archbishop after their own hearts . |
| 7 | But Mr Taylor said : ‘ The PFA have to look after their own affairs and we already have Professor Sir John Wood in that very role . |
| 8 | The West has more than 200 hospitals , including 60 small community hospitals where GPs can look after their own patients in places such as Axminster , Bovey Tracey , Brixham , Burnham-on-Sea , Clevedon , St Austell , Lydney , Tiverton and Totnes . |
| 9 | I feel now that if everybody looked after their own surroundings or took more notice of what 's going on immediately around them , the world might be a better place … ‘ |
| 10 | If everyone could look after their own , there would be far fewer people like social workers running around looking after other people 's own . |
| 11 | Many clients continue to look after their own leg ulcers at home without any assistance from nursing or medical intervention . |
| 12 | They would be happy to have Eve in their home , even after their own children came along , if they did . |
| 13 | Did the guild members look after their own coats or was there a central wardrobe at the church , or guild-hall in the case of the trade guilds ? |
| 14 | In these circumstances , a determined mother could be free to groom herself , hold office in this or that community activity , or find a job , in order to fulfil herself ; though none of them seemed to be able to explain why acting as a bank teller or the secretary of a charity , for example , was more fulfilling than looking after their own children . |
| 15 | Which Doyle knew was not the case , but this was a tight community , tight as a drum ; they looked after their own . |
| 16 | And to make matters worse after their own slide from 316 for three to 380 all out , the second day in Colombo ended with Phil Tufnell again struggling for form . |
| 17 | Well they look after their own . |
| 18 | To argue as some opponents of Wages for Housework do ( Phillips and Wallsgrove , 1978 ) that there should be ‘ adequate payment for everyone who wants to work in these collective childcare facilities ’ while opposing any payment for mothers looking after their own children at home is astonishing . |
| 19 | As soon as he got to Aix he wrote to Chamberlain : ‘ I think in the long view it is all to the good that the Government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared up before we come in . ’ |
| 20 | There will be times when all patients undergoing surgery will be unable to look after their own safety needs ; that is when they are immobilized , sedated or anaesthetized . |
| 21 | But surely , by the the women who ca n't afford to look after their own children , they should be allowed , at least , to have access to their husband so that they can ask for money . |
| 22 | that section engineers at M S four level er acted as project coordinators or looked after their own element of the |
| 23 | Children can sometimes be revived as much as 40 minutes after their own breathing has stopped . |
| 24 | Yes , Joan is right — mothers should stay at home to look after their own children . |
| 25 | ‘ Roxie , ’ she would say , ‘ every one of us has to look after their own . |
| 26 | But I would n't wish anybody er to get the idea that we as a union wish to take away what really is the parliamentary privilege that members of parliament have got to have to look after their own constituencies in addition to being sponsored members of parliament . |
| 27 | Others believed , however , that Fujimori was considering a judicial innovation under which leaders could be held accountable for actions by their organizations , even those committed after their own arrest . |
| 28 | Additionally , engineers should look after their own personal safety , and help others to look after theirs . |
| 29 | Masculine like they do n't make them any more , do n't give a fuck about Dante , do n't touch alcohol , find it cold here after their own country and are more interested in praying and politics than getting laid . |
| 30 | Monolingual families may seem all alike ( see Chapter 7 for a refutation of this ! ) , but multilingual families are each multilingual after their own fashion . |