Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may happen when parents have indoctrinated their children , that is , laid down a set of beliefs without allowing the children freedom to think for themselves and to come up with their own reactions . |
| 2 | By now they were in among thickening crowds of people , nodding to acquaintances and looking out for their own key men from down the valley . |
| 3 | The others would get bored with waiting and go off on their own without him . |
| 4 | erm So that there are a large number of tropical foresters now who 've been here and gone back to their own country , and one of the things which I point out to them these days is the need for public relations in their own countries , and getting information across to governments and being able to talk to economists and finance people in their own countries . |
| 5 | It is abruptly open to question , this idea the doctors hold in secret , that they must wield the special power ; because if the power remains unused , then it will become unmoored , and turn back against their own lives . |
| 6 | They required the most sophisticated communications technology so that they could transmit their stories and pictures back to their own countries . |
| 7 | Old Mr David Hughes has just been told by his doctors that he 'll have to retire , and the younger members of the family would prefer to sell out and start up on their own . |
| 8 | Normally , with Dawn , I would just walk straight towards the perch , but these Harris 's hawks were really eager , and bated immediately the breeze got in their feathers ; that is , they tried to take off and fly back on their own . |