Example sentences of "do [prep] their " in BNC.
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1 | Well the only thing is that I hope that the next generation that is coming along now will appreciate what has been done for their generation because it took a long time for us to get what we wanted for our children and now with our grandchildren are coming along I hope the town will improve with their growth . |
2 | After all , the clients ' interest is merely in getting an effective job done for their money . |
3 | Everything became one long dreary goodbye as parents came to thank Cassie for all she had done for their children , and the children themselves became sad and fretful at the thought that soon Cassie would no longer be their teacher . |
4 | My Lord m may I add one further matter , er , My Lord may I say on behalf of the family er the that your Lordship 's comments will be very gratefully received er , neither Mr or Mrs , although they 've sought recognition for what they 've done for their daughter , they did it out of their fond love for her but nevertheless having such a and such comment from your Lordship will be very , very good . |
5 | Because they start talking they realise that there 's something that they can do about their problems and then they can start to campaign . |
6 | It may be done through their general practitioner , or , if they are being discharged from hospital and obviously need help in the home , it may be arranged by the hospital social worker . |
7 | Dummies can come to life in books , as it seems they can do for their masters on the stage : and this miracle depends , not only on the author , but also on the people he knows , who may indeed be thought to participate in what he is , and who are likely to participate in his ventriloquism . |
8 | Can it market itself more effectively to its potential customers , many of whom are unclear about what factoring is or what it can do for their company ? |
9 | The voters ' register check which the bureaux can do for their clients would then work as a safety-net to catch fraudulent aliases . |
10 | What did they do for their meagre earnings ? |
11 | The concept of enforcement involves — as the word implies — the use of force , compulsion : one man 's right is enforced by others being compelled to do what they would not have done of their own free will . |
12 | Uhm , no , I er I 've sort of started off and I 've got so far down and er I love the drawing that Freda Rudman from Stanford-in-the-Vale has done of their village , and er and of course I like the Harwell entry , which is my own village , but there 's certainly some very nice entries in , some very good entries in . |
13 | It is possible for parents to go on behaving as they have always done towards their children , without making adjustments as they are needed . |
14 | The Iranians , concerned by what Reagan seemed to have done with their wish-list of missiles , wanted to be convinced that they had ‘ something in hand ’ . |
15 | A challenge perhaps , but heaven knows what Mr Donovan 's fans would have done with their bedroom posters if he had turned out to be gay . |
16 | Part of the problem for clients is knowing what is really done with their money . |
17 | Shinwell had been heard to declare that " he held the seamen of the Clyde in the hollow of his hand " and that English ports were also dissatisfied with Wilson 's autocratic methods and ready to break away if he did not tell them what he had done with their money . |
18 | This programme can only succeed if the public are able to understand what is being done with their money , and why , and are encouraged to work with the landowners concerned so that the most practical and cost- efficient results are obtained . |
19 | She got a glimpse of a different life , a different marriage between two good , kind , ordinary people — perhaps not so ordinary when one thought what they had done with their farm . |
20 | But do n't American taxpayers care what is done with their money ? ’ |
21 | It was certainly a spectacular display of what dancers could do with their legs whilst merely marching but the ports de bras were very limited and merely swung at the sides or sprang to attention . |
22 | What will they do with their power ? |
23 | I could do with their company at this moment . |
24 | They never have the opportunity , with their son , to learn to make the transition to the valuable relationship of ‘ adult friends ’ and explore each other 's personalities in maturity , as they can so easily do with their married daughters . |
25 | But tipping waste into landfills or incinerators is not the worst thing that polluters can do with their rubbish . |
26 | Making them think there was nothing they could n't do with their own lives , and other people 's . |
27 | ‘ What did you do with their guns ? ’ |
28 | If change is treated at the large-scale level , teachers , non-teaching staff , governors and parents can not deny the consequences of local financial management : " Pushing management decisions — for instance , about staffing complements and who should be appointed and dismissed — down to the schools will make it extremely important to know what they will do with their new-found power " ( Maclure 1990:9 ) . |
29 | Karen King — because she was English , Jessica insisted — had given over even thinking about them , let alone imagining what they might do with their hard , lean bodies and their tired , rope-burned hands , had given over bothering to deny she 'd had such fantasies . |
30 | no what do they do with their handbags ? |