Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ . |
| 2 | They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ . |
| 3 | The withdrawal of earlier death has been so marked that today most English people will have no direct experience of the grief of bereavement until they lose their own parents , when they are themselves well into middle age . |
| 4 | Equally , Sigibert and Guntram may have been opposed to Gundovald because he threatened their own positions . |
| 5 | But this may also attract criticism from parents if they make their own comparisons about trends and innovations . |
| 6 | They need to be fed from ( and vented to ) a cold water storage cistern unless they have their own integral cold water cistern . |
| 7 | The view that states imperil their own legitimacy when they offend their own subjects ' conservative conceptions of constitutionality is found more amongst other academic students of politics than amongst political scientists themselves . |
| 8 | They have an arrangement with the University and they have their own buildings , and they collaborate with the people here , mostly in Engineering . |
| 9 | They will not then defer decision until they form their own judgment . |
| 10 | That will not be easy because most of them are heavily involved in funding of all sorts of other organisations and they have their own interests . |
| 11 | They were Roman Catholics and they brought their own priests , their own life style and a cultural heritage which owed much to Italy . |
| 12 | Having cruelly ignored the band for two years as they dragged their own equipment between some of London 's less than prestigious live dives , people are finally beginning to wake up to the idea of Suede . |
| 13 | Grasses will help to build up the feeling of luxuriance and they add their own special grace when they sway about in the breeze . |
| 14 | And then you all go round the car boot and they have their own car and they 'll be selling your stuff out of it . |
| 15 | Pies scones and they made their own with the potatoes . |
| 16 | Scots per day … that all servants that shall be found to be fourty days out of service after they Leave their former Masters and not engaged with ane oyr. master shall pay ten merks Scots of fine , and that every woman that shall be found out of service as above to pay five merks Scots of fine … " 1729 . |
| 17 | Even then the provisions under the Act were fairly limited : the penal laws were not repealed , but Protestant Dissenters were merely given immunity from prosecution if they held their own religious services , provided their meeting-houses were licensed and the doors were left open when they met . |
| 18 | ‘ Will — um — any of the Massingham staff be moving here , do you know ? ’ she asked Jimmy , trying desperately not to be alarmed , but , well schooled in dealing with the profitability side of company business , unable to see Massingham 's keeping on Vasey staff if they had their own people able to do the work . |
| 19 | You see there would n't have been a kiln at the mill before that I think it every house had their own kiln and they dried their own you ken . |
| 20 | Why should Paul 's preaching have so provoked the Nazarean hierarchy that they sent their own emissaries in his wake to discredit him ? |
| 21 | She bent her head so he could n't see her blush at the thought that he meant their own relationship , and pretended to do something to the heel of her shoe . |
| 22 | The latest tactic in the South African authorities ' battle with black squatters is to arrest the shack dwellers for trespassing and then offer to drop the charges provided they demolish their own homes . |
| 23 | Group leaders are not ‘ mission-committed ’ to the group 's success , but rather want to maximize membership and the achievement of collective benefits for members because it expands their own patronage , power and prestige . |
| 24 | And , according to a new survey by Friskies Petcare , we take our pet 's diet so seriously three-quarters of owners put as much effort into preparing and serving their animals meals as they do their own . |
| 25 | Soon after , perhaps only a matter of weeks , they are dead , or dwindling rapidly in size as they absorb their own body fats . |
| 26 | But er I w I would think , although it 's before my time , I would think that er of what I 've heard my father talking about these early days , there was great enthusiasm for motorcycles and of course some of the early registered numbers you 'll find that there 's many of them were motorcycles , the young men of the town who had probably been cyclists , quite a number of them er took up this motorcycling and they made their own motorcycles so were buying either kits and er even manufacturing the tanks and these things themselves . |
| 27 | His death was not due to any lack of care because they owned their own house and were reasonably well off . |
| 28 | It does n't necessarily mean that they 're unscrupulous in the way that they get their own way ; they just have very clear ideas and it 's impossible for them to see it any other way . ’ |
| 29 | They won only three of the 15 races although they held their own until just past the halfway stage . |
| 30 | For example , in at least one rural area , we have heard of a tendency for professional people to send their children to the nearby town or another village school if they feel their own village school is unsatisfactory . ’ |