Example sentences of "to [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to take up your point about is it that erm after revolution and so on and break downs , governments er countries , say like Russian , China er some of these eastern European countries , they 're motivation goes to building their country up to resist occupation . |
| 2 | Most of my neighbours love children , and they are kind to animals , though they are not averse to eating their pet pigeons sometimes and wild pheasants . |
| 3 | They had grown unaccustomed to using their power of collective action . |
| 4 | Librarians usually produce a guide to using their libraries . |
| 5 | the operating priorities of a CMHT are set by manifest , but more importantly latent lines of local service policy ; without clear specifications as to the roles of team members , members will drift towards their common ground ; where team members have no actual or perceived authority to coordinate services , they will create their own service niche to fill ; where teams have little direct control over service resources , their own role will be limited to using their own personnel as resources . |
| 6 | Although the children at the La Mane Centre were made to use their powers for the wrong reasons , when it came to using their powers when it mattered , both Carrie and Michael used them in order to kill and destroy . |
| 7 | ‘ to the annoyance of the residents ( or passengers ) ’ 'Annoyance' can be proved by the person(s) who was exposed to including their feelings of annoyance in their evidence . |
| 8 | Mrs Garel-Jones tells me : ‘ They leave on the 20th and are looking forward to seeing their parents . ’ |
| 9 | Francis made it clear Wednesday were n't interested , even at £4 million or more , which is a new experience for Wednesday supporters accustomed to seeing their best players sold to more ambitious clubs . |
| 10 | They must really be looking forward to seeing their parents again . ’ |
| 11 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |
| 12 | ‘ Mail Newspapers and other newspaper proprietors clearly attach a great deal of importance to maintaining their goodwill and reputation with their readers by exercising careful control over who can advertise in their newspapers and what kinds of advertisements appear there , ’ the judge said . |
| 13 | Through such corporate crimes as bribing foreign and domestic governmental officials , price-fixing , mergers and take-overs , fraudulent advertising , espionage , and patent violation , some competing corporations are forced into bankruptcy , others ' capacity to compete is impaired , and still others are robbed of resources vital to maintaining their market position . |
| 14 | Little or no monies were allocated to maintaining their worker status — they could not afford special trips to the Jobcentre or to visit factories , a finding echoed in more recent research ( Erens and Hedges , 1990 ) . |
| 15 | The twelfth-century popes were committed to maintaining their temporalities by the Reform movement which was preoccupied with temporal as well as moral rehabilitation , but it was Innocent who brought the Papal State nearer a political reality than it had been before . |
| 16 | No we wo n't , because , essentially , if you give yourself one target like the exchange rate , then you lose control over one or possibly both of interest rates and money supply , both of which the government has always claimed , are absolutely fundamental to maintaining their control over the economy . |
| 17 | Companies that change factors or move back to handling their own invoices frequently cite poor quality of service . |
| 18 | The mass popularity of the movies did not come about because showmen gave no thought to individuating their audiences but rather resulted from an appreciation that the most important thing about the public as a whole was that every section and every group would respond to the appeal of the movies if it could be given access to the right kind of cinema . |
| 19 | Parents reading this book with a view to helping their children are strongly advised to read the earlier chapters as well as this one . |
| 20 | During 1985 , the Apex Trust , in conjunction with the Manpower Services Commission , and helped by the Council through the Inner Area Programme , set up a training project for local unemployed ex-offenders with a view to helping their job prospects . |
| 21 | Refugees interviewed in US-occupied southern Iraq on March 15 claimed that government forces were close to completing their takeover of Basra . |
| 22 | Both parties are taking the talks seriously and a commitment to resolving their diametrically opposed views of next year 's rebel cricket tour by an English team is evident . |
| 23 | It had taken a war to do that , Vi realized ; though she would n't mind betting that on the day peace came , all the caring would end and people would go back to minding their own business again , just as they had before it started . |
| 24 | College staff are used to explaining their subjects to students , especially at the start of each academic session . |
| 25 | The problems faced by princes go a long way to explaining their activities during the lifetimes of their fathers , especially their hostility to their stepmothers . |
| 26 | Clearly , if one is interested in deviant groups , and is convinced that the way to understanding their behaviour is to see the world from their point of view , the best way to achieve this is by becoming deeply involved in their way of life . |
| 27 | Just check their influences and you get an idea as to how open-minded they are when it comes to plying their act , as Rob offers . |
| 28 | How much are the players looking forward to pitting their talent against er the continentals ? |
| 29 | How much are the players looking forward to pitting their talent against er the continentals ? |
| 30 | ‘ Well , ’ Athelstan replied , ‘ we should be looking for a man or woman with no background , someone who has suddenly appeared on the scene , but everyone we have talked to has their own little niche . ’ |