Example sentences of "[vb base] their [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They offer a few scholarships but are mainly attended by boys from well-to-do families who want their sons to get into the officer corps . |
| 2 | We are coming to an end , let me remind you that er of this particular hundred , sixty three of whom have the use of a car , fifty seven have been involved in an accident , fifty seven and I 'm sure it ca n't be a , er it must be a coincidence say their personalities change behind the driving wheel |
| 3 | Most families in a village like this expect their children to work on the farm when they get older , but in this case it was different . |
| 4 | All you have to do is grow a beard and look rugged , take a bunch of gullible kids from good homes , make their parents pay through the nose to let them sleep in bunks and eat beans , and then pretend that mundane things are difficult or unusual . |
| 5 | Publishers often make their appointments to coincide with the parties . |
| 6 | It could be peeping from the eye-socket of any of the saurian skulls with jewels atip their horns mounted on the walls . |
| 7 | Tuna are sometimes landed when they try to swim through holes in fishing nets and get their teeth caught in the mesh ; once trapped in this way , they can be dragged on to the beach with the net . |
| 8 | All flower several weeks after the species in the jug , are much larger , get their flowers eaten by the birds , and are n't half so much fun . |
| 9 | Some tenants pay their Rates DIRECT to the Council . |
| 10 | Others pay their rates direct to the landlord in with their rent . |
| 11 | On 20 February , you published my letter , which proposed that Labour and the Liberal Democrats should each withdraw from 50 seats that they had no chance of winning , and encourage their supporters to vote for the other party . |
| 12 | But to start our adventure story at the beginning … long before we visited Bali , we escaped the ashram walls of Subud in Java , raised some money to make our first film , and found ourselves amongst a tribe who literally believe their ancestors descended from the stars in skyships . |
| 13 | The operator then turns a handle to allow three or more spears to puncture the cans and allow their contents to run into the bottom of the hopper . |
| 14 | They feel their shoulders breaking beneath the load . |
| 15 | Yet others , living in the rain forests inland , rake up fallen vegetation into mounds fifteen feet high which keep their eggs warm by the heat of decay . |
| 16 | IT 'S THE TIME OF THE karāti , THE NIGHTS LEADING UP TO THE full-moon festival , when the gods enter the dhāmis and use their bodies to dance among the villagers . |
| 17 | And he got hi I think their children go to the Catholic School . |
| 18 | And he g he I think their children go to the Catholic school . |
| 19 | They differ from the authorities now being proposed in that the local authority representatives currently are clearly in the majority and I have no doubt My Lords that the authorities in consequence see their loyalties lying towards the district councils and the communities that they represent . |
| 20 | See their gills distend with the movement and the flurry of pectoral fins that give the subtle shunting manoeuvre . |
| 21 | All candidates are required to be members of UNIP and have their candidatures endorsed by the party 's central committee . |
| 22 | The spins of the two protons are measured along axes which for each proton on each occasion are selected at random from the possible choices unc Sometimes both protons have their spins measured in the same directions ( both o , say ) , sometimes they are in different directions ( one A one y , say ) . |
| 23 | For example , some come within the jurisdiction of the Ombudsman ( Chapter 15 ) , some have their accounts audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General and reported to the Public Accounts Committee ( Chapter 14 ) , some present annual reports to Parliament , and so on . |
| 24 | And millions of customers with other banks who have their accounts processed through the same system could also be hit . |
| 25 | Its deep-sea prey have their eyes tuned to the blue ambient light , but Pachystomias has red-sensitive pigments . |
| 26 | The result is often cannibalism , especially in chickens and turkeys , which are debeaked and often have their toes cut by the same hot-knife machine as a preventative . |
| 27 | The remaining colleges of higher education , approximately thirty in number , have their courses validated by the CNAA and , although the movement in this direction away from university validation has slowed down considerably , it is likely to continue for some time to come . |
| 28 | Thrushes adjust their movements according to the spatial dispersion of their prey . |