Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] their [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | LITTLETON villagers are planning a summer of action to highlight their campaign for road improvements . |
| 2 | The two largest companies , National Power and PowerGen , have appealed to Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine to overturn the decision after Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution rejected their request for secrecy . |
| 3 | Paradoxically , the very accuracy of these scoring systems for assessing the severity of illness precludes their use for comparison and audit . |
| 4 | The heads of government pledged their support for the attempts of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) to find a solution to the crisis in Haiti [ see p. 38758 ] and condemned the attempted coup in Venezuela [ see pp. 38759-60 ] . |
| 5 | They 're urging any parents who 're in doubt to contact their GP for advice . |
| 6 | They 're urging any parents who 're in doubt to contact their GP for advice . |
| 7 | For example , this theory is incapable of accounting for the phenomenon of redundancies : workers surely do not want to be made redundant in order to indulge their desire for longer holidays . |
| 8 | He strung the Poles along to the very end in order to keep their enthusiasm for his cause and their manpower for his army . |
| 9 | Harris had been sentenced to death for the murder of two teenage boys in San Diego on July 5 , 1978 , in order to steal their car for use in a bank robbery . |
| 10 | In order to express their concern for equality and individual autonomy , liberals often insist that certain rights should be fundamental to the framework of society . |