Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [coord] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shouldering their empty bait bags they jumped on their bikes and after a cheerful ‘ Watch out for mooring ropes , ’ from Yanto , they cycled off in opposite directions . |
| 2 | Companies surely benefit from being quizzed about their strategies and from a free flow of ideas with the market . |
| 3 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
| 4 | During wartime and the postwar era of government price control , electricity undertakings had in many cases been prevented from raising domestic tariffs to meet increased costs , and had drawn instead on their reserves and on the automatic increases paid by larger ( mainly industrial ) consumers under the coal-cost increase clause of their special tariffs . |
| 5 | The old DDT sprays got into them through their feet and through the biting jaws but , like so many poisons , just as many friends are knocked over as foes , and the indiscriminate use of DDT is now banned in this country . |
| 6 | But they all tightened their belts and after a great deal of grunting and squeezing and pulling and pushing they emerged , one by one , into the moonlit churchyard . |
| 7 | It is crucial that researchers aim to be more participative in the way they frame research questions and their methodologies and at the same time be more sympathetic to the subject(s) they are researching . |
| 8 | In fact , only a minority of the children were returned to their parents and in a large number of cases suspected abuse was subsequently confirmed . |
| 9 | Because of the length of a trip , canal boatmen began to live on their boats and by the 1820s their wives and children sometimes lived and worked alongside them . |
| 10 | The only possible response from the independents would be to also reduce their fares but without the cross-funding safety net . |
| 11 | This contrasts with the often-repeated one-to-one association of certain orchids and their insects and of the hundreds of species of figs and theirs . |
| 12 | I respect them for the medieval certainty of their beliefs and for the casuistical cunning of their arguments . |
| 13 | Would n't this , I reasoned , eradicate at least some of their problems and at the same time reduce the level of criticism from us ? |
| 14 | In his socially approved role as witch-finder , the witch-doctor receives clients , listens carefully to their problems and in the divining sessions points to their probable origin . |
| 15 | Both sides are permitted considerable licence to achieve their aims and in the ensuing melee , where there is little prospect of administering rules , many old scores are settled . |
| 16 | The commission has been collecting evidence about the torture and ‘ disappearance ’ of the military regime 's political opponents , from victims and their families and from the armed forces . |
| 17 | In the event , Palmerston and Russell agreed to sink their differences and with a united opposition the Conservatives ' days were numbered . |
| 18 | The men work with practised skill , pausing only to sharpen their axes or for a short cigarette break . |
| 19 | They were not even given their wings and for the next two years , on the ‘ last in last out ’ principle , they had to endure the insufferable tedium of waiting for demobilisation . |
| 20 | In this , the companies were aided and abetted both by the dislocating and isolating processes that impinged on the people who came to their villages and by the key agents in both pits and communities ( the buttymen and the Spencer group ) who contrived a particular mixture of deference , self-interest and non-political association in the locally-constructed significant reality of the working people . |
| 21 | It is not surprising , therefore , that recent Marxist explanations of power in capitalist society have tried to explain the more pluralistic modern forms of representation and policy-making in terms , not of some devious desire by the ruling class and their friends but as a limited freedom for actors and forces opposed to capitalism , which is constrained and limited in the last instance by the economic structure of the capitalist mode of production and its ideological hegemony . |
| 22 | There may be further steps which must be taken , after they have completed their tasks and before the next committee meeting . |