Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] with their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might also consider whether they ought to continue with their attempt to run a second restaurant at all . |
| 2 | And then they used to go with their slate and and they knew it altogether and then the counter turns and turns like that . |
| 3 | They separated and , on their joint application for divorce , the Family Court of Australia granted a decree nisi and expressed itself satisfied that proper arrangements had been made for the children 's welfare , namely , that they would live with their mother during the week and be supervised by the father at weekends . |
| 4 | Although every parent has the right in the fullness of time to decide whether he or she feels they can cope with their child , they can not be placed in a position of absolute power over its life if they have an extremely misleading impression of the form that that child 's life might take . |
| 5 | Perhaps , then , men find women 's conversation difficult to follow , and since they are the powerful group , they can deal with their incomprehension by defining women 's behaviour as deviant and wrong — ‘ illogical ’ is just their word for that . |