Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite Buckingham Palace 's bid to show the Waleses as a united couple , the pictures on these two pages speak volumes about their inability to relax in each other 's company . |
| 2 | Ackerley 's crusade to tell the truth , however uncomfortable and inconvenient that might be , arose from his belief that his relationship with his father had been compromised by their inability to confide in each other . |
| 3 | The intensity of their love , and their readiness to speak to each other directly from the heart , fed rapidly on this period of enforced absence , made tolerable — and enhanced — by the writing of letters . |
| 4 | The lord lieutenants have used their association to act like any trade union , and lobbied for a government grant . |
| 5 | The leaders who went out to any area of European expansion had to make all their own decisions because it would take months , if not years , for their sovereign to reply to any request for instructions . |
| 6 | Their intention to continue with this strategy remains . |
| 7 | But the five dockers ' case was about the ‘ very simple issue ’ of punishment for men who had defied the order of the NIRC and had expressed their intention to continue in that defiance . |
| 8 | Their determination to win at any cost , brought world criticism as the details of massacres such as Mai Lai emerged . |
| 9 | His French and Swiss bankers had already indicated their eagerness to participate in any expansion of the company . |
| 10 | The Cid was then before Albarrazin , doing all the evil that he could , and he brake up his camp and came with his host to Juballa ; and Abeniaf and the Alcaydes of Xativa and Carchayra came unto him , and they renewed their covenant to stand by each other , and be of one voice . |
| 11 | Certainly from the spring of 1918 Lenin was almost obsessed by the need to get grain to the cities of the north-west , for it was their turn to starve at that time . |
| 12 | The most interesting aspect of the teachers ' response is their unwillingness to admit to any change of attitude or practice as a result of GIST . |
| 13 | By this stage learners are looking for opportunities to extend their already considerable store of language , to test their ability to retrieve from this store , to improve their fluency and to refine their control . |