Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could feel angry , embarrassed and even guilty because of the comments of over-anxious parents who keep hinting about their longing for grandchildren , or make it clear that they think there should be no more . |
| 2 | We will be competing for their business with already existing companies there which offer complete financial services . |
| 3 | The females evolve to be larger and brighter coloured than the males , and control harems of dull-coloured egg-sitters , competing for their domestic skills against other acquisitive and territorial females . |
| 4 | And while the fashionable ammonites and graptolites were competing for their place in the spotlight , the minor characters in the stratigraphical play were doing exactly the same thing . |
| 5 | THERE is a burst of late season sailing activity with the Ruffian Class competing for their Northern Ireland title at Carrickfergus Sailing Club and the GP14 Class holding their Autumn Open at East Down Yacht Club . |
| 6 | So dairy farmers look likely to be gainers under the new regime , particularly as several new groups will be competing for their milk . |
| 7 | As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom . |
| 8 | The Reverend Foster 's beady eyes fixed on the children fumbling for their donations as if they were a parcel of juicy worms to be swooped on if they tried to wriggle away . |
| 9 | There 's nothing really daring about their show , no gambles , unless you amuse yourself by guessing which of the three vocalists will leave the stage next . |
| 10 | The House of Love admitted it themselves , apologising for their shyness , because after all , this was the biggest gig yet . |
| 11 | Software602 sales manager Jan Muhlfeit said that the teenagers , all aged between 16 and 18 , had written a letter to the Alliance apologising for their actions — they claimed they did not know that they were doing anything wrong . |
| 12 | Those leafing through their history books for an earlier model for the current recession could linger fruitfully over the pages that cover the 1870s . |
| 13 | Most of them were black ; now black and white girls were singing about their boyfriends . |
| 14 | It will require a miracle for Bedford to retain their status , even allowing for their few plus points — a top New Zealand coach , the arrival of a useful looking New Zealand scrum-half , and the fact that if the three national divisions are expanded , as proposed , next season , only one team will be going down from the First Division . |
| 15 | Taking fish the size of Neon Tetras as a benchmark , and allowing for their growth : |
| 16 | In part this is due to a desire to avoid a rigidly causal account which will straitjacket capitalist societies into a single position , not allowing for their diversity and variation . |
| 17 | BUT EVEN allowing for their rise in public stature , Leeds ' artful loons are wary of any form of bandwagon jumping . |
| 18 | BUT EVEN allowing for their rise in public stature , Leeds ' artful loons are wary of any form of bandwagon jumping . |
| 19 | Most clergy have received some instruction in voice production and singing during their theological training . |
| 20 | touching between their toes . |
| 21 | one quarter of wheat for every virgate of land , in return for their having housebote and paling for their corn , and for collecting dead wood for their fuel in the King 's demesne wood … and from every house a goose and a hen every year . |
| 22 | Swan 's ‘ guest ’ ( ie , unpaid ) lecturers are academics singing for their supper and for the chance to revisit sites and monuments , or sometimes visit them for the first time . |
| 23 | It 's not all going according to plan , however , and most days they wind up literally singing for their supper . |
| 24 | It was bordered by tall tree ferns , with sufficient moonlight to show the way filtering through their high , curved umbrella fronds . |
| 25 | ALL economists are blushing about their recent forecasting failures ( see page 91 ) , and the International Monetary Fund is no exception . |
| 26 | DEC already has the incomplete version 1 of the OSF operating system out on its MIPS line , and it 's this that customers are using for their own early development work . |
| 27 | They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember . |
| 28 | It was engineered by a group of malcontent nobles in alliance with the faction of the Prince of the Asturias , using as their instruments army officers and the mob . |
| 29 | The Abortion Law Reform Association , founded in 1936 by seven women , of whom Dora Russell , Stella Browne and Frida Laski were particularly sympathetic to the labour movement , believed abortion to be safe , but called only for legal abortion to be made available on health grounds , using as their justification the way in which deaths due to abortion inflated the maternal mortality rate . |
| 30 | Feldstein and Flemming ( 1971 ) carried out a study of investment in all the major industrial sectors of the UK , using as their interest rate variable a weighted average of equity and debenture yields . |