Example sentences of "it their [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Abbey National rose 14p to 365p as brokers made it their favourite for a bid from Lloyds Bank . |
2 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
3 | Why was it their go ? |
4 | Labour voters who observed the anti-Labour virulence of the SNP campaigns are puzzled as to why a few Labour MPs and trade union luminaries have made it their mission to resuscitate a force that the electorate had efficiently reduced to three seats . |
5 | They gave it their photograph albums they gave it their records |
6 | It was not the quantity of stars that was so impressive , though if there had been more they would have blended into a whitewash , nor was it their brilliance , though they were a dazzling variation of colour and size , but that they seemed alive . |
7 | Given the SDLP 's track record , it is inconceivable that Labour-minded people in Northern Ireland would ever give it their support . |
8 | ‘ They want no part of it and do not give it their support . |
9 | competition from the new commodity , the new technology , the new source of supply , the new type of organization … competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms ( and possibly even entire national economies ) but it their foundations and their very lives . |
10 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
11 | People from the four corners of the world have come to Ontario to make it their home . |
12 | Just hours after yesterday 's talks , three Israeli cabinet ministers signalled a fresh settlement for Soviet Jews on the occupied Golan Heights , calling it their response to Syrian demands for return of the disputed plateau . |
13 | I 'm not saying that you should make it their responsibility to do these things , but we should offer them the opportunity . ’ |
14 | As there is no dinner served at Eagle House , it is quite usual for John and Rosamund to find their guests dinner bookings , and they consider it their responsibility to find an eating establishment to suit the purse and palate of each guest . |
15 | They gave it their sleep it gobbled their dreams |
16 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
17 | As he took it their fingers met , invoking so vivid a memory of the few seconds she had spent in his arms that she jerked away , spilling coffee into the saucer . |
18 | It was not to pass examinations and qualify for better wages , not to raise themselves into a higher social class — though these are respectable ambitions and no doubt many of those early students felt them — but to get at knowledge for its own sake because without it their existence would be less worth to them , that the working classes demanded education and got it . |
19 | A common explanation is that these revolutions came from outside : East Europeans simply took the chance offered by Mikhail Gorbachev 's Sinatra doctrine to ‘ do it their way ’ . |
20 | German officials have repeatedly threatened to leave the EC integration process unless they can have it their way . |
21 | Paul McCann and Rebecca DeMornay are already doing it their way nationwide in Dealers ( 15 ) . |
22 | Despite major record labels making the customary silly noises , for the moment Raw Stylus are doing it their way , playing out with a full eight-piece line-up . |
23 | The joy is , though , that they do it well and they do it their way , in the same spirit that Primal Scream celebrated The Elevators ' ‘ Step Inside This House ’ … with style . |
24 | " I still think we should let them try it their way and see what happens , " Lorne ventured . |
25 | See it their way . ’ |
26 | Then you get another lot with another lot of ideas and they do it their way , and nobody likes that either . |
27 | We were quite aware that the er quarry men well then there were fifty three out on strike er fifty men and three women , very much wanted to er t well play it their way in a sense . |
28 | I I did it their way |
29 | They told him they would do it their way . |
30 | IDENTICAL twins Gareth and Jonathan Boreland did it their way — and brilliantly — in the GCSE examinations . |