Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And three words per second is the way that television presenters make er , their scripts for presenting to the public in a news bulletin . |
| 2 | We asked Barbara to write about her favourite and most useful London shops , and readers voted with their feet by flocking to the shops she featured . |
| 3 | The Industrial Revolution gave birth to a large and well-to-do middle class and they were not slow to emulate their betters in travelling to the seaside to enjoy the air and the water . |
| 4 | Those who fled during the Cultural Revolution often did so alone , others carrying two children on their backs across the Himalayan mountains to join the 100,000 strong refugee communities in India , where today a committed group have devoted their lives to working for the Tibetan cause . |
| 5 | Some were immediately picked up by the demons , whilst others managed again and again to risk their lives before falling to the persistent attacks of the creatures from hell . |
| 6 | Any attempt to prove that they were misled by fraud or otherwise would necessarily involve an inquiry into the manner in which they had performed their functions in dealing with the Bill which became the British Railways Act 1968 . |
| 7 | Other children are now being banned by their parents from going to the park in Bannockburn . |
| 8 | They were led to do this after major expressions of concern about the difficulties institutions were facing in their libraries in coping with the massive expansion in student numbers . |
| 9 | Farmers can find common cause with their workers in complaining about the ‘ interference ’ of outsiders in their own farms ' and the village 's affairs . |
| 10 | There are those who believe that their houses are built over tombs , unknown to archaeologists , and that the owners still supplement their incomes by selling off the contents bit by bit on the black market . |
| 11 | In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords . |
| 12 | Often there are disagreements and the desire to defend their own interpretation can lead learners to stretch their powers of communicating to the utmost . |
| 13 | Management committees are being asked to take more responsibility for the shaping of their bureaux by participating in the planning and assessment processes . |
| 14 | We have the benefit of a Conservative Government who will put the battle against inflation at the head of their priorities for dealing with the recession . |
| 15 | All too often husbands actually prevented their wives from coming to the picket line and there were cases where parents-in-law forced women to go on working for the sort of reasons described in Chapter 6 . |
| 16 | If Rangers can produce a victory tonight 's game — played on neutral territory because of the severe Moscow winter — their prospects of emerging from the group as winners will be enhanced , particularly as the last of their six games will be against what is likely to be an even more depleted Russian side . |
| 17 | The river 's edge , where Virgil 's ghosts held out their arms in longing for the farther shore , and Dante , as a living man , was refused passage by the ferryman , the few planks that mark the meeting point of land and water , there , surely , is a place to stop and reflect , even if , as Father Watson did , you stumble over a ten-gallon tin of creosote . |
| 18 | Professional advisers can help general practitioners to determine their requirements for prescribing at the primary and secondary care interface and ensure that purchasers include these criteria in contracts . |
| 19 | For this reason , handwashing is the single most important personal activity in preventing infection , so it is essential that people wash their hands after going to the toilet and before touching food . |
| 20 | The publishers , therefore , are in practice holding back booksellers by their adherence to a restrictive price agreement , but are laying off their bets by going around the traditional book trade and growing their market elsewhere , with patchy controls . |
| 21 | Members will die , move away , emigrate , and perhaps change their minds about continuing with the work . |
| 22 | At Broomstreet Farm Hazlitt called ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ to their minds by pointing to the bare masts of a ship , outlined against ‘ the red-orbed disk of the setting sun ’ . |
| 23 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 24 | It would put added pressure on institutions to make up their holdings by buying in the market . |
| 25 | There are many gifted teachers who are extraordinarily successful in this way , who are not just animated interpreters of complex concepts and theories , but who are able to galvanize their students into grappling with the issues for themselves . |
| 26 | They 're very professional , very entertaining and almost meaningless , all of which augurs well for their chances of succeeding in the West . |
| 27 | It is a profound challenge to those who have built their careers by rising through the ranks of the command organisation . ’ |
| 28 | Despite their qualms of travelling on the Sabbath , they took the weather as it came to them and sailed back to Skye , landing in the harbour of Portree . |
| 29 | Annfield found their hopes of finishing in the top four being dimmed when they went down at home Boldon CA . |