Example sentences of "[vb base] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modern veterinary surgeon does not see nearly as many cases of distemper as we used to , simply because most people immunize their puppies at the earliest possible moment . |
| 2 | I was still off the chain so could at least go to the little bathroom and fill the others ' water-bottles and empty their pee-bottles . |
| 3 | They will take out overdrafts , empty their building society accounts , even sell their second houses . |
| 4 | But that wo n't be any consolation on Christmas morning when my kids empty their stockings and find no trace of the Tracys . |
| 5 | preface their statement with a question . |
| 6 | One of the oddities , though , is when C and M slip across a piece that has little or nothing to do with the high-tech graphics which preface their speciality corner . |
| 7 | They mingle their trouble , a music |
| 8 | Then again , they peel their apples with fancy , little knives instead of savaging them with their gnashers . |
| 9 | She did not know Vanessa well enough to gauge whether she was one of those wives who deliberately peel their husbands away from former friends . |
| 10 | I do n't think women should look to men to put things right and solve their problems . |
| 11 | Many southerners are apparently against provision of large-scale welfare support for these people , however ; they apparently believe it will both encourage them to have more children , especially children not in a male-headed , nuclear family , and thus increase the State 's welfare load , and also because they think it will reduce the incentive for them to work , and thereby solve their problems themselves . |
| 12 | Not images , but people who can direct them or lead them , channel their energies or expand their scope are what they need . |
| 13 | Many channel their hatred into art and fill magazine galleries with hedgehogs kicking their trainer-clad feet into a blood-spattered plumber 's head . |
| 14 | Applying this to [ 14 ] , we could say that the point of producing [ 14a ] was to deliberately mystify the audience and thereby capture their attention . |
| 15 | ‘ I also liked the idea of producing images of people in the public eye which do n't adhere to the unwritten rule of portraiture — that you 've got to make some kind of personal comment about the sitter , capture their essence , if you like — which , at twenty four , I did n't feel particularly qualified to do . |
| 16 | The hedgerows and pasture where the owls hunt their prey are disappearing as farmers create bigger fields for intensive arable farming . |
| 17 | Many women have difficulty becoming appropriately assertive , rather than submissive or domineering , in our male-orientated society and may find a mini-group of women helpful to examine this problem and process their reactions to it . |
| 18 | As for Argentina , they cede their ground to South Africa . |
| 19 | By guaranteeing their intellectual property rights , the Body Shop says , " we can help indigenous peoples conserve their environment , their culture and their knowledge " . |
| 20 | Domestic cats left to fend for themselves in the wild would still spend much of their time asleep , and conserve their energy for hunting at dawn and dusk . |
| 21 | They chant their tables before playtime with tops , skipping ropes and hoops . |
| 22 | They assume , that is , that the principles of analogy and local interpretation constrain their experience . |
| 23 | The papers by Christoph Sauer and Kiernan Ryan are both concerned with the way in which language can be used to influence people 's conceptions of themselves and of the socio-political environment they live in , as well as to condition and constrain their behaviour . |
| 24 | These rules express the interactional dispositions of the individuals concerned which constrain their potential for acquiring novel behaviour randomly through learning . |
| 25 | The Lotharios who seduce their pupils are at the very least guilty of irresponsibility . |
| 26 | Ann would join her husband at 5.30am and then the pair would work diligently together until 7am when Ann would cook breakfast and awaken their daughter . |
| 27 | Under the watchful eye of the teacher the children improvise their shoe shop , and probably it is she who suggests the use of shelves for the ‘ display ’ of pairs . |
| 28 | Eliot 's use of primitive ritual to reveal the horror of Sweeney 's existence relates to his connection of Conrad and James as writers who involve their audience in the apprehension of deepseated levels of evil . |
| 29 | Effective heads have realistic but challenging expectations of the degree and rate of change that are manageable by staff ; involve their colleagues in school-wide curricular planning and decision-making ; delegate genuine responsibilities to subject co-ordinators ; see staff development as one of their major responsibilities ; and target resources of time , materials and personnel to areas of agreed priority . |
| 30 | DICTATORS ' offspring often disappoint their parents . |