Example sentences of "in their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They consistently held the initiative but seemed overwhelmed by the vision of victory and , when they twice had it in their grasp , they froze . |
| 2 | They dragged her by her arms as she shouted , twisting and turning in their grasp . |
| 3 | When he had completed the tape , he had absorbed a required unit of work , and subsequent testing generally demonstrated that students were rapidly improving in their grasp of essential material , as well as responding positively to this method of instruction . |
| 4 | Its location has been the cause of much dispute because the church was brutally destroyed by the Lancastrian army in their sack of the town in 1461 . |
| 5 | The use of nursery rhyme , prayer , and the splitting of the poem in section V , confirm this ‘ authorlessness , , and the one time when the first person singular is employed , in section II , the reader senses a fear localized in the images used , more than in their beholder . |
| 6 | As a result , big DRAM producers like Toshiba , Hitachi , Mitsubishi Electric and NEC have 4-megabit chips piling up in their warehouses , just as they start opening additional factories . |
| 7 | Not so in Vienna , where the import of the new buildings in the Ringstrasse lay in their symbolism . |
| 8 | And men forgot their passions in their dread . |
| 9 | She could feel her cheeks burning as girls she 'd been to the convent school with in Naas said , ‘ Welcome , mam ’ and some had slyness in their smiles . |
| 10 | Snodgrass was discussing with the Gnomes the best route to take and Caspar was making sure that they had packed the maps and Inchbad and Goll the Gorm and Arca Dubh were nodding and smiling and , of course , there was nothing sinister in their smiles — and there was certainly nothing in the least sinister in the way that Goibniu was looking at Fenella , thumbs hooked in his belt , his wide greedy mouth curving into a satisfied grin … |
| 11 | Second place went to the class two crew of Neil Fletcher and John Erwin in their Escort Mexico with Edward Murphy and Barry Taggart third in a Talbot Samba . |
| 12 | They are also skilful in their deployment of famous names . |
| 13 | The general point is that primary schools might be more imaginative and flexible in their deployment of staff : there is no law that says that there should be one teacher to one class for all of the time , and that this is the best possible arrangement in all circumstances . |
| 14 | In a society that legitimises its forms of truth by appeal to ‘ science ’ and ‘ objectivity ’ , a person 's case will certainly appear stronger if she or he can demonstrate that the other side is ‘ context-bound ’ and limited in their deployment of such logical abilities as ‘ abstraction ’ . |
| 15 | In their South African days the kindergarten showed little interest in the uplift of native races . |
| 16 | Yeah , yeah , they just put them in their eardrum part |
| 17 | They had been successful in the 1250s in recovering the original franchisal rights , as they had existed under Henry II , in their liberty of Trim . |
| 18 | The public were a ‘ voice offstage ’ to be used by each side in their threats , but only in the last resort was public debate considered to have a useful role in decision making . |
| 19 | Companies that secure the consultancy services of a top guru invest as much faith in their powers as did the hippies who hit the Maharishi trail to India 20 years ago , or the 17th-century crowds that mobbed Charles II , believing the British king 's touch would cure them of scrofula . |
| 20 | They will do anything in their powers to get what they want , and to satisfy their greed . |
| 21 | Blundstone boots are showing no signs of receding and back in their birthplace of Hobart , Tasmania , they 've walked into the city 's art gallery which displays 35 Oz artists ' response to ‘ Do Something With A Blundstone ’ . |
| 22 | Yes , I 'm all right , ’ Tamar replied , opening her eyes and then veiling them with the black sweep of her lashes , but not before Tempy had seen the gleam of triumph in their topaz depths . |
| 23 | John Combes and his wife lived out their lives in their dream house , and their children stayed here until the 1760s . |
| 24 | Its own drive to create a plutonium economy has stalled , yet western nuclear contractors are encouraging Russians in their dream . |
| 25 | Tod 's glands are in their dream mode , whinnying in nightmare . |
| 26 | In 1920 , with Lloyd George 's complicity , he encouraged the Greeks in their dream of empire in Asia Minor at Turkey 's expense . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the people of Gondar , Wollo , Tigre and Eritrea sit in their shelters waiting for an indifferent world to decide their fate . |
| 28 | Below : When shooting cichlids they show their colours best when not stressed so try to shoot them at home in their shelters . |
| 29 | And I in I invite I suppose the County Council really to respond to this issue of how they would intend erm indeed the districts , how they would intend to use these criteria certainly in a more rational and erm intellectually rigorous way than the sort of erm statements that were included in their January nineteen ninety two report . |
| 30 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |