Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEEDY : Rumpled bed and empty bottles in the borrowed Fulham flat where Mellor and Antonia met for their steamy love sessions |
| 2 | Congress , if a few more voters got off their backsides last year and gone out and voted , and voted Labour , there 'd be no need for this motion at all because it 's Labour Party policy anyway . |
| 3 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 4 | I often heard voices arguing , and usually they never argued about their writing . |
| 5 | Doubtless even the Vikings ( after sailing , raping and pillaging all summer ) got about their own snowy land on useful planks of wood . |
| 6 | Dent has been called a " chocolate-box village " by some writers who have assumed that the preservation of the village is due to the action of the green welly and Barbour jacket brigade ( 2.4 children called Timon and Amarintha , Range Rover with macramé or tie-dye seatcovers and this year 's Booker Prize winner on the back seat ) , but the fight to prevent the cobbles being ripped up and the narrow bridges widened was led , not by middle-class " off-comed-uns " , but by the Dalesfolk , the farmers , joiners and builders , the ordinary people who cared about their dale . |
| 7 | These people cared deeply about the success of the venture because they cared about their own livelihoods , the future of their children and the very breath of their dying community . |
| 8 | ‘ I wanted to show that we cared about their predicament and wished to conduct a genial and mutually satisfying transaction , and I thought the head of the company bothering to put in an appearance might do that . ’ |
| 9 | Winning a little more possession in the second period , Bridgend attacked through their backs , bringing some fine defence from Withey and George . |
| 10 | We were woken at the crack of dawn by the pitter patter of seagulls as they pecked for their breakfast . |
| 11 | They sold off their small tools division where we sold some bearings to them . |
| 12 | Maybe it was the wild untamedness of the river , its banks populated by real people , proud and self sufficient , who cared for their neighbours as well as their own . |
| 13 | I have met wonderful doctors who really cared for their old patients , but sometimes the doctors were dismissive and rude , believing that there was little point in wasting valuable resources on the elderly as they were going to die soon anyway . |
| 14 | In one situation , a younger daughter was being constantly criticized by her older sister for the way she cared for their mother . |
| 15 | All her staff believed she genuinely cared for their welfare for no other reason than her deeply-felt need to be surrounded by a contented workforce . |
| 16 | They say that until his death he cared for their mother , who 's disabled with polio . |
| 17 | They knew the names of certain French dishes and gave orders to Jarveys in high pitched provincial voices , which pierced through their skin-tight accents . |
| 18 | Within days of the outbreak of war , prominent Arab-Americans were being visited by the FBI and asked about their knowledge of international terrorism . |
| 19 | In order to be accepted as a Safe-Buy approved supplier , firms must prove through their accounting system that they are financially sound ; they must prove they hold proper current insurances ; they must supply a list of recent customers , at lest 12 of whom are contacted by the Safe-Buy team and asked about their satisfaction with their recent home improvement ; finally , further checks are made on the company through the relevant consumer protection associations to ensure that the applicants reputation is untarnished . |
| 20 | Pupils may be asked directly to describe a rule for predicting how many matches would be needed for any number of boxes , or they may instead be asked how many would be needed for , say , 500 boxes and then asked about their methods as referred to below . |
| 21 | She spoke rationally to them and asked about their families , but during the night she died in her sleep . |
| 22 | I would not properly be able to understand the Mughals ' palace , said Dr Jaffery , unless I first read through their book of etiquette . |
| 23 | The clerk behind the hatch asked for their empties before she 'd hand over the new bottles but they had n't got them . |
| 24 | Arran convened his kin and friends , and all the other nobles who would support him , and asked for their backing against the cardinal . |
| 25 | Martha , her youngest , was being courted by Sam Baldwin , the youngest son of the family at Cauldron Mill ; although the lad had not yet spoken to Jonadab , Annie knew it would not be long before he asked for their daughter as his bride . |
| 26 | So I put it to him , ‘ Being famous does n't necessarily endow a guitarist with insight into the design and workings of the guitar , so why are artists so often asked for their input and reviewers almost never , when our job is to understand , examine and pass judgement on guitars on a daily basis ? ’ |
| 27 | It asked for their support in getting the law changed , and the guidelines strengthened by law . |
| 28 | We asked for their advice ( not all of them , there are nearly half a million users ! ) and the question that we asked was … |
| 29 | And I went in there , and asked for their tailoring department and er er I found out after that I was just dead lucky , one of their trouser finishers was going to er leave , she was getting married , and she was leaving and erm although you did n't have to leave then , she she she sort of had got to leave , so er I just fell lucky , there . |
| 30 | He had an idea that he would find himself another flat , and he actually called at a number of agencies in the Bayswater area and asked for their lists . |