Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] their [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most tenants of local authorities , new towns and housing associations can now take in lodgers if they wish and they do not need their landlords ' consent to do so . |
| 2 | Crooked bosses can easily steal their workers ' pension cash MP 's revealed in a shock report . |
| 3 | This will make it possible for more informed advice to be given to parents of mentally handicapped children about how they can best assist their children 's language development . |
| 4 | Again all good schools already monitored their pupils ' progress , so how could one object ? |
| 5 | Whereas it used to be assumed that she would follow him around the country and around the world , it is now not uncommon for wives to decide to stay put in order to further their own careers , or so that they do not disrupt their children 's education . |
| 6 | On the debit side the church also witnessed a high proportion of reversions , particularly among their young people through the secularising influence of their English education and the fact that they did not share their parents ' nostalgia . |
| 7 | The thin cotton of their clothes could not hide their bodies ' warmth from each other , and she became aware of a curious lassitude that seemed intent on relaxing her tense muscles . |
| 8 | He wound up the interview and was rising to say goodbye when Catherine , sounding shy , asked Peter Yeo if she could possibly use their ladies ' room . |
| 9 | It should also be remembered that teachers are always assessing their pupils ' performance on a daily basis and will know their pupils well over the period of time . |
| 10 | Teenage mothers often copy their parents ' experience ( Madge 1988 ) , especially ‘ conventional ’ teenage mothers of legitimate births who conceive within marriage ( Kiernan 1980b ) . |
| 11 | Lodging-house landladies regularly did their lodgers ' washing for a small extra charge — Lady Bell found this to be a common practice among the one-third of Middlesbrough wives who took in lodgers . |
| 12 | These composers are not coldly exploiting their audiences ' kindness ; they are all equally the victims of the going ideology . |
| 13 | Yet over half of the disabled people being cared for in Glendinning 's ( 1992a ) study had apparently failed to claim the attendance allowance when they first became eligible , thereby potentially affecting their carers ' benefit entitlement as well : |
| 14 | Senior staffing the northern agency did attempt during the research period systematically to evaluate their officers ' work from their sampling records . |
| 15 | In fact , they would go further and say bluntly that the current obsession with exam passes is actually harming their pupils ' education . |