Example sentences of "[adv] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suttons of Reading brought 138 greenkeepers to Henley to play after a conference — perhaps their year of looking after the course was done with this in mind . |
| 2 | Perhaps their part is best summarised by remarking that if the brain is damaged at this region not only sexual capacity may be reduced but libido ( sexual urge ) may be reduced or may even be completely lost ; in the opposite direction , artificial stimulation by means of electrodes implanted in these parts of the brain can reproduce the sensations of orgasm and its phenomena — ejaculation etc . |
| 3 | Perhaps their escape from Germany felt as miraculous as that of Jonah from the whale . |
| 4 | The first scene showed a pair of children whipping a tied girl , perhaps their nurse . |
| 5 | Perhaps their attitude can be summed up in a nice little phrase from one of Dally 's patients : ‘ The pleasures of eating are fleeting , but the pleasures of fasting are lasting . ’ |
| 6 | Still , his more recent letters showed that Angel was planning to come home to fetch her , so perhaps their quarrel , whatever it was , could be settled . |
| 7 | Perhaps their timing will not need to be as accurate as that of Vienna . |
| 8 | The grandness of the meal , and how much of it you pay for , depends upon the expectations of yourself and your guests and perhaps their relationship to you . |
| 9 | It has recently been suggested that King overstated the numbers of the really poor because he used too large a multiplier for family size , and that perhaps their proportion of the population was nearer to a seventh in most years . |
| 10 | Perhaps their fidgeting and silence had nothing to do with what he had said ? |
| 11 | ( Perhaps their paintings said things to one another during these years that they could never say in person . ) |
| 12 | If they 'd been wise and told their government that this tax should not happen , as indeed many of their former ministers , like Michael Heseltine said , they 'd said it was incredibly complicated although seemed sounding easy , and would in fact bring higher levels of taxation to the lowest income people , then er if the local tories had actually acted on that and put pressure on their central party , perhaps their government would n't be in such a mess about this issue now . |
| 13 | The children would come in , perhaps their friends are going to the pictures , and sometimes I 'd cry because I know mine ca n't go . |
| 14 | They do n't bother anyone , except perhaps their parents at times . |
| 15 | Or perhaps their parents guessed about Blyth , Paul and Esmerelda . |
| 16 | Most of the lower limb fractures we see occur in casual hill users — perhaps their leg muscles are n't attuned to what they 're doing . |
| 17 | So perhaps their disappearance was a brave bid to shake off that old image ( two years is long enough to be forgotten in teen land ) and appeal to a broader church . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps their deadline was too early . ’ |
| 19 | They served to date some events , to establish the names of some of the participants , perhaps their ages . |
| 20 | It was perhaps their awareness of this , rather than their arrogance , which led them to emphasize the relationship so strongly after Edward IV 's death . |
| 21 | It was perhaps their awareness of this , rather than their arrogance , which led them to emphasize the relationship so strongly after Edward IV 's death . |
| 22 | Moreover most of these women , unlike perhaps their mothers or grandmothers , will see themselves as workers , earning an income and pursuing a career — rather like male members of families . |
| 23 | The lugworms may be lagging a long way behind , but perhaps their time may come ? |
| 24 | Perhaps their flies are different to ours . |
| 25 | Whereas in the past teachers held on to the professionalism of hearing children read as their specialist preserve , they have now realised that perhaps their professionalism lies elsewhere . |
| 26 | Perhaps their set is two hours long . |
| 27 | Perhaps their probosces are not long enough to reach the most succulent parts of the prey by any other means . |
| 28 | The middle-aged may want to preserve an order they are accustomed to , or perhaps their careers . |
| 29 | He thought that a sum should be awarded for the instruction given to the children with regard to their upbringing and perhaps their homework and that services of this kind were as much a service as other matters conventionally regarded as such . |
| 30 | In general the larger libraries engage in more structured training and much more training as a whole , than small libraries , and perhaps their domination in this field has tended to obscure the problems faced by smaller authorities who never could — or increasingly , no longer can-base their training programmes on the assumption that staff can easily , or frequently be released from their normal workplace : |