Example sentences of "their [noun] [coord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Leasing the herbage and pannage would disturb the deer in their lairs and deprive them of their pasture .
2 Thru enacts this strategy of ‘ wild jay-walking ’ between theories by side-stepping their systematicity and making them into stories .
3 It is designed to help participants identify challenges in their ministry and to equip them with the necessary insights and skills to meet these challenges .
4 ‘ We had two old Marshalls that sounded great sometimes , but by the end of the record the only way we could get them to sound good was by taking them out of their cases and placing them on their sides in a certain temperature and a certain humidity — then they were great .
5 An honest appraisal will help their progress and guide them to further learning opportunities .
6 Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl .
7 The Hezbollah election programme , as announced by the party 's secretary-general Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah on Aug. 6 , asserted the importance to Lebanon of " resistance against the Zionist occupation " , and pledged to support " the resistance fighters , facilitating their jihad and providing them with official and popular political protection " .
8 For 13 years the forces of Hooraydom have stalked the land , set free by a government that slashed their taxes and showered them with Bollinger , BMWs and bijou terraced houses in the smarter parts of South London .
9 He hardly waited for their introductions but ushered them into the warm , sweet-smelling room , chattering and asking questions like a magpie .
10 CHANGES in the Sheep Annual Premium Scheme regulations means that sheep farmers will have to count their sheep and record them from January .
11 A local feudal family , the Balšići , seized their opportunity and established themselves as rulers of Zeta .
12 They revel in their bloodlust and gratify it at every opportunity .
13 The offence could be used against counter-demonstrators who set out to ‘ smash ’ their opponents or to stop them from expressing the point of view that they set out to express .
14 If the enemy are not roused and ready , three thousand could ride through their camp and cut it to tatters !
15 ‘ People have very quickly got used to the idea of crushing their cans and putting them in the special bins provided .
16 Zoos have a good stock of the lar gibbon Hylobates lar but are low on all the others , and so the CBSG is advising zoos to get rid of their lars and replace them with species such as hoolock H. hoolock and concolor H. concolor .
17 breaking their legs and kicking them in their bollo I mean balls , in the , in the , in the
18 The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor .
19 This would involve a small bus ferrying disabled shoppers from their homes and taking them into the heart of the town before returning them direct to their front door .
20 Then if you feel it is appropriate , address them to their homes and send them by registered mail .
21 The Gamegear reflects this desire , allowing youngsters to play their favourite games at home but also to take them away from their homes and enjoy them on the move .
22 His basic idea was to empty arteries and veins of their blood and replace it by something ‘ fluid enough when it is injected to run into the branches of the vessels , will afterwards quickly grow hard ’ .
23 On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) .
24 Others , unable to bear the grief , swore to remain in their homeland and rebuild it to its former glory .
25 As we go to press , however , LEAs are still drawing up their formulae and submitting them to the DES for approval .
26 It was as if the attacking force had drawn back their battering-ram and steadied it for one final assault .
27 For I remember us doing a flipping er a family came to Wyre once and we were on the same old coble we were er doing the flipping and we thought we had nothing to do but take the rope off their heads and push them over the side of the coble onto the side of the small jetty .
28 They started doing ‘ breakdown ’ [ lifting the boys above their heads and dropping them on the ground ] .
29 I doubt whether we can afford it , I doubt whether , I think the problems are so immense , er what really means is down I think , tearing down most of their industry and rebuilding it from scratch .
30 Explaining why the authorities changed their mind and committed themselves to the transfer of land is a prime difficulty in the history of the emancipation .
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