Example sentences of "their [noun pl] for [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The motley band stared in awe at the figure who would be in charge of their lives for the next three months . |
2 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
3 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
4 | Christies International , one of the world 's leading art auctioneers , yesterday revealed their profits for the last six months had been hammered by £1 million down to £2,112,000 . |
5 | their percentages for the first three |
6 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |
7 | There , Daf workers who are made redundant will receive 70 per cent of their wages for the next four years . |
8 | After they had gone , he said , he could n't remember whether they 'd said goodbye ; whether they had wrapped their arms around their children for a last loving embrace . |
9 | Their hosts for the first few days , the Lord of the Isles , Sir Alexander Macdonald , and his wife Jane , a relative of Boswell 's , waited on the shore at Armadale , a small , dirty , sandy horseshoe of a bay , to greet them . |