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Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Most media professionals appear to know what is expected of them in their various organisations , each of which has different political backers , and the media product tends to be created accordingly .
2	The primary source of their superior financial performance is capital gains from acquiring corporate assets and activities that , under present ownership , yield less than their opportunity values , and disposing of them at their higher market values .
3	They long above everything for their two parents to be reunited .
4	And very soon they were , he said a moment ago they had taken it from Jesus , they were no longer trusting in him , and they started to trust in themselves in their own ability .
5	With companies continuing to cut back on corporate travel , the first-class and business-class passengers who have traditionally provided airlines with their profits are not returning in anything like their earlier numbers .
6	Candidates must now set up personal machines manned by workers attracted to them by their individual qualities and stands on the issues with little or no reference to party loyalty .
7	‘ So the folk of the village capitalized on this gift from the gods , that had come to them in their darkest hour .
8	They were free to raise funds elsewhere if they could , and one at least got a substantial sum from a local authority which would not have supported a project of that nature if it had not come to them from their own school children .
9	" Who exactly are the slant-eyed oriental gentlemen who 've come among us in their gaudy silk dressing gowns and funny hats ? "
10	This greatly strengthens the Prime Minister 's ability to argue against proposals put forward by departmental ministers who are forced to rely almost entirely on the briefs prepared for them by their departmental civil servants .
11	The grooms on the train were all younger , thinner and from what I 'd seen of them in their uniform T-shirts less positive .
12	Meeting their expectations means communicating with them in their own tongue .
13	This in turn will build up their confidence in English which they will carry with them throughout their English learning careers .
14	Mr Burns said he did not speak to them about their past life because he felt that would have been ‘ insensitive ’ .
15	Any teacher who tries to devise a syllabus for a music class that will appeal to the members of the class for its relevance , or who attempts to attract the English class by giving them things to read or act that will speak to them in their own language is in danger of falling into the trap of ‘ thinking down ’ to his pupils , of condescending to them .
16	See now , there 's a lot of people who will speak to you friendly out on the street and there 's a lot more of them who 'll speak to you inside their own homes .
17	The old tight links between banks and firms related to them in their industrial groups have gone .
18	On the whole , during what Duiker has called ‘ the Stalinist years ’ , this was something that was accepted by the Vietnamese Communist Party but one can imagine that it was not always so easy to accept the advice which came to them from their French comrades .
19	You just say , ‘ Come on ’ — speak to them in their own language and they 'll understand you .
20	Anxious readers of the Daily Telegraph have been writing to me in their thousands to ask : what happens to these celebrities in the event of a hung parliament ?
21	In fairness to the mother he should have directed that she be given notice of the foster mother 's application ; had he done so he would have learned — as we have learned from the mother 's statement which clearly should be admitted in evidence before us for this purpose at least — that if the matters to which she spoke were correct ( viz. the foster mother 's preventing her having access to and contact with the children , and allegations which she says the children made to her of their physical and emotional abuse by the foster mother and other members of her ‘ family ’ ) , then the mother 's wishes and feelings were not lightly to be ignored .
22	judges enjoy an almost complete immunity in respect of acts — even corrupt and malicious acts , happily rare in our history — done by them in their judicial capacity .
23	He reflected that , after all , it was the attitude he would wish to see adopted by her with their own servants , when they should have them ; and handed her into the jeweller 's .
24	Evandrou ( 1990 ) showed that , nationally , the equivalent income of carers ( taking account of family size ) was somewhat lower than for non-carers , but the real drop in income was experienced by those caring for someone in their own household .
25	She thought about them a lot , wondering how it was going for them on their first real day on active service ; the first day , she supposed , of the rest of their lives — of the duration , at least .
26	They could not provide for them from their own resources , he alleged , and hence resorted to war , pillage and brigandage in order to sustain their followings .
27	It is extremely likely , also , that someone was waiting for them at their intended destination .
28	They kept their secret identities and paid for it through their Swiss bank accounts .
29	That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop .
30	Relatives always made disparaging remarks about me ‘ breaking the chain' of five boys , but consoled my parents that they at least had a girl to look after them in their old age .