Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after his appointment he went to the north to meet representatives of the non-Burman races , and in effect asked them to state their own terms for participation in a Union of Burma . |
| 2 | One depicts Mary 's first husband , Francis II , three times rushing to welcome her in heaven , and three times finding that he can only embrace a headless body , so that he curses his people ; whereupon the poet exhorts them to forget their own troubles , and unite to destroy England and send its queen to a dreadful death . |
| 3 | But spreading the work out though actually extended the administration costs and not giving start and finish times that were fairly tight , so the people doing the work allowed them to make their own judgments on when it was going to be done . |
| 4 | Hospital nurses opposing a plan to make them wear their own clothes for work have put off a decision to take action in protest . |
| 5 | well if it 's er if it 's kids say , you know , youths do they leave their own father 's gate open like |
| 6 | It is important that an orchestra has new young players coming in all the time — we recently had a young Polish violinist who is one of the orchestra 's concert-masters , he is very promising , and full of music — but sometimes players leave us to fulfil their own dreams and ambitions . |
| 7 | ‘ I still think ’ , he observed , ‘ on present showing they have their own doom built in . ’ |
| 8 | On retirement their savings and pension enable them to buy their own flat or cottage ; but because they may never have cooked more than a snack for themselves or lived alone , the adjustment to this different way of life can be hard to make . |
| 9 | Some of the 30 nurses working on the two long stay geriatric wards at Darlington 's Greenbank Hospital are hoping to avert a management decision to make them wear their own clothes . |
| 10 | While sending hearty congratulations to the trophy winners , Central Council also offers sincere thanks to all the Branches whose extra endeavours led them to beat their own previous records . |