Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |
| 2 | The matter is complicated by the fact that across the social spectrum some families changed their surnames as often as their surcoats , and individuals had , in the course of their lives , sometimes as many as three or four surnames , any of which could be adopted quite haphazardly by their progeny . |
| 3 | They 'd better make their minds up quickly whether he was in charge or not . |
| 4 | If journalists are going to like you , they will make their minds up quickly and it is a positive advantage if they like what they hear , but have n't got enough . |
| 5 | But he said it was a temporary blip arising from greater throughput of cases in the civil courts ; increased efficiency at the Scottish Legal Aid Board and solicitors submitting their accounts more speedily because of the recession . |
| 6 | They change their jobs more frequently than older people . |
| 7 | Curve their ends up slightly and leave with the greenery to harden . |
| 8 | It was an unexpectedly tender insight on the part of the Arabs to accommodate their infants up here where it was airy and cool . |
| 9 | I mean I think that 's extremely important to allow children to erm you know play things out in the best way that they which is in a sense their way of coming to terms with things erm and to answer their questions as honestly as I can and to admit it when I do n't know the answers erm and also , I mean in our family we 've taken various actions to try to stop the war and we 've , you know , taken part in demonstrations and written letters and erm |
| 10 | People who superficially are in the same position in a family — brothers and sisters , mother and fathers — are likely to define their responsibilities very differently and , perhaps more importantly , to be expected by others to define them differently . |
| 11 | As a result , the Whig MP John Hervey had to work extremely hard to cultivate the corporation , and although he did use various financial incentives , he found that the best way to keep their support was by serving their interests both locally and in Parliament . |
| 12 | They bend their heads right back until their faces are entirely open to the sky . |
| 13 | Brittle bones is a condition that affects all older people to some degree , but post-menopausal women in particular ; and it is the reason why they break their bones so easily if they fall . |
| 14 | Something wondering and recapitulatory in his tone brought to mind the way I had often spoken of Jess in her absence : odd , I thought , the way men tended to prize their partners more highly when they were elsewhere ; almost as though the idea of relationship was more satisfactory than its practice . |
| 15 | This idea that relatives will acknowledge their responsibilities more effectively if alternatives are kept to the minimum has retained a strong hold on British social policy — a point to which I shall return . |
| 16 | ‘ Ca n't you just see their faces back home if we turned up with this ? ’ said Angalo . |
| 17 | Even if I had no longer been able to see the real images in my mind I could see their representations as clearly as if they hung before me , and the two were beginning to run together . |
| 18 | British and Empire troops dug in and organized their defences so rapidly that all German counter-attacks the following day were thrown back and even more ground gained . |
| 19 | THE province 's young emerging stars of the future have a chance to enhance their reputations still further when the Ulster development side face their Leinster counterparts at Donnybrook on Easter Tuesday . |
| 20 | He explained that as vicar of a large parish he had many and constant duties to perform , but that his interest in the deaf was so great that he would find time to advance their interests as far as he could . |
| 21 | Political connections were often the principal criterion suggested to justify the promotion of an officer of excise , and some of them were quite ready to employ their own votes to advance their careers so long as this was permitted by Parliament . |
| 22 | Tendrils from the two black shapes reached out to entwine with each other , pulling their cores closer together until , as Ace watched in amazement , they melded together into a single muscular column of flesh crowned with thorns . |
| 23 | For wisecrackers have been pulling their legs unmercifully ever since the sex and sangria saga hit the airwaves . |
| 24 | A senior Garda source in north Donegal said : ‘ These traffic lights could be used for subversive or sinister purposes and we are anxious to trace their whereabouts as soon as possible . ’ |
| 25 | There can not be many women who run their homes as efficiently and as mechanically as a factory , or to the kind of strict timetables that the domestic manuals printed a generation or two ago would have us follow . |
| 26 | The Bar code of conduct requires that those who appear should use their powers as responsibly as the interests of justice may reasonably allow . |
| 27 | Psychics can often see the auras of women more clearly , possibly because women tend to express their emotions more easily than the average man . |
| 28 | Would you want them to be able to express their emotions more intensely and precisely , able to show how they feel ? |
| 29 | You see them much more as people , you know their interests much more than if they are just there listening to the lesson and so in a way this open access to the teacher , I think , although at times it does give extra pressure in the long run I think it 's tremendously beneficial . |
| 30 | Soon a fairly large crowd had gathered and men were holding their sons up so that they could stand on the bar to get a better view . |