Example sentences of "[prep] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | thirty pound to do out their lounge or a bedroom or whatever a square |
| 2 | One popular story was of walrus who sneak up on divers and such out their brains . |
| 3 | Increased assistance to the CIS already included the promise of food and transport aid from NATO [ see pp. 38698-99 ] ; £20 million in fodder grain from the United Kingdom to St Petersburg , offered on Dec. 2 ; the release on Dec. 16 of the first tranche , worth ECU500 million , of an ECU1,250 million credit agreed by the EC in October [ see p. 38539 ] ; and $30,000,000 from Sweden and 30,000,000 Finnish markka ( about US$7,250,000 ) from Finland in aid to CIS areas nearest their countries . |
| 4 | Baby Two and her mother were transferred to a hospital nearer their home the day before . |
| 5 | They play Newry this Saturday at the Showgrounds and it 's an excellent opportunity for the Reds to move a step nearer their target of a quarter-final place . |
| 6 | The researches of Robert Whiting into the impact of the official reformation on the people of Devon and Cornwall have revealed that even in this conservative part of the country , where attachment to Catholic ritual had been particularly strong , statues of the saints began to disappear from churches soon after their condemnation by the Henrician injunctions , and within a short space of time the wills of the laity contained fewer references to images or intercessory masses . |
| 7 | Companies House has bowed to pressure from MPs and the business community and agreed to send ex gratia payments to companies that were forced to pay a late filing penalty after their accounts for the period to 30 September 1991 were delivered to Companies House on 31 July 1992 . |
| 8 | LIVERPOOL prepared themselves for a backlash from Crystal Palace tonight after their weekend walkover . |
| 9 | The attractive lively girl , affectionate and easy with Bert after their weekend away together , presumably alone , did not convince Alice . |
| 10 | After their weekend in Georgetown , the Colemans moved in to his family 's lakeside cottage at Lake Martin , near Auburn , Alabama , to await his next assignment . |
| 11 | Its format , six friends locked into a reunion ten years after their graduation , and its analysis of contemporary concerns recall The Big Chill . |
| 12 | His original partner had been killed in a shoot-out four years earlier but instead of taking on a new partner Mauer now worked with the rookies , showing them the ropes and generally helping them to settle into the daily routine at the Mozartstrasse precinct as quickly as possible after their graduation from the Police Academy in Vienna . |
| 13 | Later in the day , after their shopping expedition , Jessica and Karen drove down to the docks . |
| 14 | During the Second World War Petwood was requisitioned by the R.A.F. and it became the Officer 's Mess for 617 Squadron , better known as ‘ The Dambusters ’ , after their bombings of the Mohne and Eder dams . |
| 15 | Among those older workers in the study conventionally defined as economically inactive , just over two-thirds were retired , although only 18 per cent had retired at the normal pension age , 17 per cent were sick or injured , and 4 per cent were looking after their families . |
| 16 | Those women choose to work part time because it fits in with looking after their families . |
| 17 | On the other side of the road , two old aboriginal women , one with a grey beard , stumble away from the local park after their afternoon drinking session . |
| 18 | He was draped in the doorway , sporting a chunky oatmeal sweater and a pair of thigh-hugging beige trousers and looking tanned and fit after their afternoon in the snow . |
| 19 | If Nick made the mildest joke about virginity , about his luck , about impotence , about needing to eat after their exertions , she would dress and run away and it would all be over . |
| 20 | Bangor handed them another three on a plate and the Seasiders may well have been leg-weary after their exertions in Cyprus on Wednesday . |
| 21 | Bangor handed them another three on a plate and the Seasiders may well have been leg-weary after their exertions in Cyprus on Wednesday . |
| 22 | While the Combination Laws of 1799 and 1800 , enacted as a response to a fear of the spread of revolution from the continent , had been notoriously ineffective , prudence remained the order of the day even after their repeal in 1824 , and it remained convenient to take advantage of friendly society legislation . |
| 23 | Fewer of the French nobility were drawn to looking after their estates . |
| 24 | There is plenty for you to watch : the way they feed , the way they cluster around the queen , the way they look after their eggs and grubs ( larvae ) , the development of the larvae into adult ants . |
| 25 | This fact is consonant , to say the least , with the long philosophical dispute about causation and time , including the idea that causes might not only be simultaneous with their effects but might come after their effects . |
| 26 | The latter was lively and talkative tonight , and Belinda suspected that it was an attempt to lighten her own spirits after their discussion about Tom . |
| 27 | The bruised executives of British Coal would testify to that after their run-in over the coal contract which ended up in court . |
| 28 | In the morning after their breakfast coffee , he stood silently and balefully near her until she gave him the fare to Dublin . |
| 29 | Nor were they altogether at ease in the neighbourhood , for though there was no reason to suppose that the verderers would return in search of them after their escape — after all why should they suppose the children would return to the very spot where they had been captured ? — the shock of the moment when Michael 's voice had spoken to them out of the darkness still hung about the place . |
| 30 | After their escape , the driver , William McPhee , who also owns the van , and his assistant Caroline Campbell were helped into a nearby house before police , ambulance and fire services arrived . |