Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The return to rock means the supercession of demystification by re-mystification , giving people back their sense of worship , rather than forcibly opening their eyes to the nuts and bolts of how ‘ myth ’ is constructed . |
| 2 | First , there is the question of the correct model on which agents base their expectations of the outcomes of particular policy actions . |
| 3 | To get the distances correct , have them place their hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them . |
| 4 | Food — Farming : Farmers grow their crops in the valleys . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Today you have watched our mandarins banging their foreheads on the flagstones — but not for our emperor ! |
| 7 | Such classificatory techniques and use of social binaries seem all too obvious in police practice and undoubtedly enhance ideological barriers and present further opportunities for the powerful to encourage their agents in the police to pursue bigotry and authoritarian measures in their contests with the dispossessed . |
| 8 | The girls plan to pitch their talents against the boys at the end of term , so they 're getting as much practice as possible . |
| 9 | Judges sat behind closed doors and took only written evidence , basing their decisions on the records of preliminary investigations conducted by the police . |
| 10 | Collectivist solutions go further than this , basing their arguments on the differences in the nature of consumption and accountability in the public and private sectors . |
| 11 | And will discuss their concerns with the makers in the far east . |
| 12 | It may be necessary at this stage to release further information , such as current trading and sensitive information such as detailed customer and supplier analyses , which will enable the offerors to finalise their offers into a Heads of Agreement . |
| 13 | We are content to acknowledge ourselves beings which sense their surroundings like the animals , but with the power of reason to criticize and to guide the senses . |
| 14 | Together , most of the bodies lost ground in the fifteenth century , and were often forced to ‘ appropriate ’ neighbouring parish churches in order to swell their incomes from the tithes due from the laity ; this frequently became a source of bitter dispute locally , and lay patronage shifted away to the parish churches in the fifteenth century . |
| 15 | Where had they all gone , those extraordinary skinny left-wing men , who had bullied their girl-friends into the Women 's Movement and been surprised when the hand with which they had so kindly offered freedom had been bitten so damn hard ? |
| 16 | They were walking their horses among the sand-dunes south of the castle , and on their left hand the sea ran high and grey , and the gulls were uneasy , aware of coming wind . |
| 17 | Not only does allowing the so-called minnows to play the bigger teams provide their players with the highlights of the rugby lives — but it also means that sides like South Korea , conquerors of the Barbarians , get the exposure to top level competition . |
| 18 | It is alarming to hear how many relatively inexperienced pilots seem completely unaware of the risks they take when pitting their skills against the forces of nature . |
| 19 | The Syrians used their tanks against the leftists without compunction , but by October they were armed with a weapon far more powerful than their armour : a mandate from the Arab League to enter Beirut as an ‘ Arab Deterrent Force ’ . |
| 20 | That Anna Moore and Bobby Corry have severed their links with the paramilitaries and have decided to marry each other is a cause for rejoicing not condemnation . |
| 21 | Mr John Patten , a junior minister in the Home Office , assured the House that he would gladly amend the law if necessary , and added his own warning that schools and parents should continue to alert their children against the dangers and perversions of cults . |
| 22 | Finally , two sets of adults most involved with the formal teaching of ‘ stranger-danger ’ , viz. primary schoolteachers and community involvement police officers , will be asked to repeat the experimental tasks , predicting how children would respond , in order to compare their predictions with the children 's actual responses . |
| 23 | Every morning she could hear them singing their mantras with the children . |
| 24 | I would n't fancy their chances in the play-offs . ’ |
| 25 | They 'll be stopping motorists in the hope of jogging their memories about the events of seven days ago . |
| 26 | Mr Lang said : ‘ If the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and the Office of Fair Trading change their views on the proposals , no one will be happier than me . |
| 27 | Other animals under threat included the bottlenose and humpback dolphin , and the green and hawksbill turtles , which normally laid their eggs on the beaches of tiny offshore islands . |
| 28 | But the idea — current indeed in Anglican circles until the last century — that Jesus ‘ ordained ’ twelve men ( who became the first ‘ bishops ’ ) , who subsequently laid their hands on the heads of others , and so forth down to the present day , can certainly not be allowed to stand . |
| 29 | The remains of sheilings tell us something about the pattern of agriculture and the temporary removal of the people in summer to tend their cattle in the hills . |
| 30 | The remains of sheilings tell us something about the pattern of agriculture and the temporary removal of the people in summer to tend their cattle in the hills . |