Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN 'S big banks stirred up a storm last night after threatening to charge customers for using their own money . |
| 2 | girls are presented with a dilemma between maintaining their feminine identities or becoming closely identified with the study of physics . |
| 3 | Similarly , restaurant management have wider responsibilities for building their own branch 's business than would the managers of most branded operations . |
| 4 | Generally speaking , people in this room are sitting around relaxing ; they are n't bustling about generating their own heat so the atmosphere around them needs to be kept at a comfortable temperature . |
| 5 | When they behave illegally , they could be required to pay for publicizing their own failures , negligence , indifference , apathy , and greed , and also the names , photographs , and misdeeds of each corporate offender . |
| 6 | Although she enjoys the aesthetic value of wild flowers , her reason for encouraging their widespread growth is principally scientific . |
| 7 | Some special schools for visually handicapped pupils which have facilities for producing their own enlarged print use this for lesson notes and for enlarging finely printed text and reference work , finding this helpful to their pupils . |
| 8 | If his taxes did deter hard work , the economy would wilt , jobs would be lost and he and his colleagues would run short of the tax revenue for financing their favourite causes . |
| 9 | President Elizabeth Diggory told the GSA 's annual conference in Bristol : ‘ Some schools are seriously thinking about using their own tests instead . ’ |
| 10 | They are normally responsible for purchasing their own uniform and music , and often their own instrument too . |
| 11 | A major obstacle to accurate prediction was the preference of many MPs for keeping their own counsel . |
| 12 | Champion McEnroe , 33 , practising with the Davis Cup team at Fort Worth , Texas , issued a statement this week confirming that he and Tatum , who won an Oscar as child star of Paper Moon , have seen lawyers about ending their six-year marriage . |
| 13 | In this section it will be argued that , since industrial relations form part of the overall texture of state enterprise activity , the logic of public enterprises provides a starting point for understanding their industrial relations . |
| 14 | After drawing their first two matches , the team won the next four games to claim third spot in the Stone and District Cricket League — just 11 points adrift of the leaders . |
| 15 | After eluding their English pursuers for some days they encamped in Stanhope Park in Weardale on 20 July . |
| 16 | The majority of farmers were probably sceptical and decided not to invest in the system , because the Scientific Farming Machinery Co appears to have ceased trading a year or so after announcing their new gas injection equipment . |
| 17 | Although Crewe are reluctant to sell , Hignett now seems certain to follow in the footsteps of Platt , Rob Jones and Geoff Thomas , who all moved on to win international honours after launching their first team careers at Gresty Road . |
| 18 | Ndlovu is already a national hero in Zimbabwe after becoming their youngest ever international at the age of 15 . |
| 19 | That Essex should amass their highest one-day total a couple of weeks after sustaining their lowest , as they did against Scotland ( 388 for 7 ) and Lancashire ( 61 ) , merely added gloss to the Svengali touch . |
| 20 | CHILE were thrown out of the 1994 World Cup by Fifa yesterday after forcing their decisive 1990 qualifier against Brazil to be abandoned in Rio when their players walked off claiming that the Chilean goalkeeper , Roberto Rojas , had been injured by a flare . |
| 21 | Dowty Aerospace Propellers are flying high , after clinching their biggest contract . |
| 22 | After confiscating their musical instruments , the police allowed them to proceed and they went on to parade — much more quietly than they would have liked . |
| 23 | Already 2-0 down in the three-match series , England will go into today 's clash with just two frontline seamers after axing their fastest bowler , Devon Malcolm . |
| 24 | Members of the 69th Doncaster Pack relax after holding their first Coffee Evening . |
| 25 | Two weeks after quitting their civic home of more than 60 years to move into new offices in the town hall , Loftus town councillors now have to look again as looming charge capping of the district council could mean the closure of the uneconomical hall . |
| 26 | Football news now … and after losing their last four matches , Swindon Town are opting for a more defensive policy in tonight 's home game against Tranmere Rovers . |
| 27 | After suffering their worst defeat in any general election since 1968 , the Socialists yesterday repeated their call , to disillusioned left-wing voters and those who had abstained to turn out in force on Sunday , to block too sweeping a right-wing victory . |
| 28 | Cross Keys face a two-week playing ban after having their fifth player sent off this season . |
| 29 | THE Teesside Union are joint leaders of the Yorkshire InterUnion League championship after recording their third successive win when they defeated Bradford Union at West Bowling on Sunday . |
| 30 | After examining their specific areas , the working groups will help prepare initial discussion papers for wider public consultation , will consider the results of this and develop where necessary more specific proposals on which the DTI will issue a further consultation paper . |