Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | preface their statement with a question . |
| 2 | Their origins stem from France where old Mr Fauchon years ago told me his forebears were Huguenots , who fled their country from a small place bearing the family name of Fauchonville . |
| 3 | ( I doubt that men are reading magazines which counsel them to modify their style in order ‘ to communicate better with all the women in your life ’ ! ) |
| 4 | Speakers of Hiberno-English ( one variety of English used in Ireland ) are under increasing pressure to modify their language in the direction of Standard English , which is the prestige norm in Ireland . |
| 5 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 6 | The chemists encouraged people to have fun in the sun while protecting their skin from the harsh rays which can prove dangerous . |
| 7 | Every computer user should seriously consider protecting their system with an uninterrupted power supply . |
| 8 | Computer manufacturers have a continuing problem of protecting their investment in programming and yet persuading their customers to transfer to new computers . |
| 9 | It is a production bogged down by a Brussels-like bureaucracy , from the union dominated actions of the orchestra ( whose buzzing watch-alarms alert them to a coffee break mid- aria ) to the backstabbing officials protecting their patch with petty politics . |
| 10 | Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan tried to lure Beardsley back to his native North East earlier this season , but Kendall spurned their attempt for the player he holds up as an example to all professionals . |
| 11 | But er unfortunately those on the ground who have shown their skill at wrecking anything that does n't suit their purpose with the support of the Labour group , those on the ground will still be there and I do n't believe that er giving the director of education the executive powers is going to stop them continuing to take the sort of action they 've been taking . |
| 12 | Use of technical terms is one aspect , for example , of how cogently pupils can talk or write about a topic , how explicitly they can express themselves , and how well they can suit their language to their audience and purpose . |
| 13 | They 're on a hiding to nothing bless them and er th I mean Kenny is no different to any other manager in the premier league , er they 're all spending a lot of money in the hopes that they can buy their way to success . |
| 14 | COMPANIES can not buy their way into these pages by sending free gifts to the editor . |
| 15 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 16 | In contrast , the government 's two senior legal advisers and the senior partner of a leading firm of society lawyers were so ignorant of this fact that it did not even enter their heads that it would be wise to make some enquiries before launching their client into a statement that could be , and indeed was , ruinous . |
| 17 | Glasser thunders on : ‘ Both Lilian and Mary invested too much emotional capital in their opposition to father , whose influence naturally remained dominant , try as they might to escape ; and this imbalance distorted their view of relationships and of the world . ’ |
| 18 | The Court dismissed their appeal at first instance but they appealed ( see MS Fashions Ltd and Others v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA [ 1992 ] , The Times , 23 June ) . |
| 19 | Other walkers were struggling up the dusty track , sweating and wheezing their way to the high plateau . |
| 20 | Many channel their hatred into art and fill magazine galleries with hedgehogs kicking their trainer-clad feet into a blood-spattered plumber 's head . |
| 21 | Two men posing as electricity board workmen escaped with £700 after tricking their way into the home of a 78-year-old woman at Greenside , near Gateshead . |
| 22 | WORLD rugby officials yesterday risked a damaging political backlash by reaffirming their support for a South African-held World Cup in 1995 . |
| 23 | For Franco himself and his partisans , the deliberate coincidence of military and political milestones was a way of reaffirming their conviction of their right to control their country and its inhabitants . |
| 24 | By the summer of 1934 the Labour leadership had repudiated the Hastings resolution with a joint TUC/Labour Party statement reaffirming their commitment to ‘ preventing War by organising Peace ’ . |
| 25 | Like the frottole they were music for a wide public and , as with the frottole , the printing-presses multiplied their popularity by producing them in alternative forms . |
| 26 | FLY-HALVES Michael Lynagh and Naas Botha got an early chance to size each other up before world champions Australia take on would-be kings South Africa later on this month when they meet , plying their trade for Treviso and Rovigo respectively , in the Italian Championship final . |
| 27 | On the other side of the coin this year we have mainstream authors plying their trade in classic sf territory — Robert Harris and P D James to name two . |
| 28 | Both samples of women will be involved in commercial sex , though the better educated younger women will be plying their trade in the hotels in the centre of the town , while their mother 's customers will be drawn from the shanty towns on the periphery of Nairobi . |
| 29 | Police have received scores of complaints about dealers openly plying their trade in front of small children on street corners . |
| 30 | As for Argentina , they cede their ground to South Africa . |