Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Continued to support elderly owner occupiers to remain in their own homes . |
| 2 | At the same time they try to make sure that no other males get the opportunity to mate with their own female . |
| 3 | The long occupation of northern France by the Lancastrian kings could never have been carried out without the active participation of men , many of them not yet noble , performing the tasks of their captains who , as noblemen with lands in England , had to return every so often to their estates to see to their upkeep . |
| 4 | SENIOR Tories in Cheltenham were trying yesterday to persuade Mr John Taylor to remain as their prospective parliamentary candidate after his failure to become the first black Tory MP . |
| 5 | This kind of response is based on the view that women are one of those ‘ minorities ’ ( sic ) who are disadvantaged and for whom the mission of adult education is to provide the wherewithal to cope with their misfortunes . |
| 6 | It is open to the local planning authorities to include in their development plans such policies as they consider appropriate . |
| 7 | Tories remained fiercely critical of Whig arguments about popular sovereignty , and tended to argue that the people would be better off if they accepted their place in society and allowed the Tory elite to attend to their welfare . |
| 8 | The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act , which became law in 1970 , revolutionised the public attitude to the disabled , including the deaf , by imposing statutory duties upon local authorities to provide for their welfare and to help them to overcome their disabilities . |
| 9 | Mr Lanighan wants people who disagree with the sentence to write to their MP or to the Judge , Francis Allen , demanding a tougher policy . |
| 10 | This was enough to make many come , and among them they brought before me many women who pretended to be possessed ( as is their habit when they want to leave their houses to meet with their lovers ) and it was hoped that I could deal with them . |
| 11 | A number of GRIST coordinating staff doubted whether arts teachers would avail themselves of the opportunity to comment on their INSET need , as GRIST , section 27. i. , requires . |
| 12 | They requested permission to work on their own in a small area immediately outside the classroom , collected paper and felts , decided between them how to take turns to scribe . |
| 13 | It is , of course , also possible that the genetically handicapped will be simply too few ever to influence the majority to come to their help . |
| 14 | Wherever they come from , horses have no difficulty in understanding each other ; there appear to be no languages or dialects in ‘ Horse ’ , though domestic horses sometimes invent unusual signs to communicate with their owners . |
| 15 | This and other abortive moves brought frustration and some despondency to the commandos who had been gathered by Keyes into large groups to train with their landing force from the Royal Navy . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Argentina , Chile , Colombia , Ecuador , Hong Kong , Indonesia , Panama , Peru , Philippines , Singapore and South Africa said that they would refuse permission for the Akatsuki Maru to pass through their territorial waters . |
| 17 | The most popular work was that which allowed students freedom to work on their own — projects , for example . |
| 18 | Two are about to leave Oxford University to work with their former professor — Tony Cheetham — and five other students who have already settled in California . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's the right of every citizen to go to their polling station to vote on the day , but disabled people do n't have that right , ’ says Richard Wood , head of the British Council of Disabled People . |
| 20 | It was one thing for the pale brown islanders to swim in their Mother Hubbards , or often , as I had been told , bare-breasted . |
| 21 | The Nazis also needed a mandate to proceed with their policies . |
| 22 | Not having the culinary skills to extract nourishment from this household item she passed on to her second request ; could she have money to buy uniforms for her kids to go to their new school ? |
| 23 | Many of the children in care were young , and unless positive steps to plan for their future were taken , they would continue like the older children in their sample to wait for lengthy periods in care . |
| 24 | At least the enemy are in a similar situation probably much worse off then we are judging by the amount of shells passing over our heads to fall in their positions . |
| 25 | Sunderland made no attempt to sit on their lead , however , and looked just as likely as Norwich to score in a second half which comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value . |
| 26 | He supplied shops with the best quality wood which he bought cheap from sawmills ; he even sold sawdust to pubs and butchers ' shops to sprinkle on their floors . |
| 27 | Both men stated their intention to appeal against their convictions . |
| 28 | Armenian efforts were then directed towards an attack on the city of Lachin — situated outside Karabakh to the south-west — in an attempt to capitalize on their victory against Shusha by breaking a corridor through Azerbaijani territory to connect Nagorny Karabakh with Armenia proper . |
| 29 | Different types of horses have evolved temperaments to cope with their native climate and environment . |
| 30 | Happening by chance to be employed in one of the most notoriously protest-prone university schools in the Western world , I have noticed an extraordinary anomaly in student protest behaviour which I invite my readers to compare with their own experience , which I think they will find quite closely comparable to my own . |