Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To date almost 100 graduates have participated in the GEP and the majority have gone on to successfully launch their own businesses . |
| 2 | Indeed , HyperCard has created such interest that IBM swiftly produced their own HyperCard lookalike which they call LinkWay . |
| 3 | And , while not necessarily eclipsing their own songs , the rash of covers — chosen for maximum heartbreak potential — offer pointers into their mindset . |
| 4 | The Soviet , Italian and German governments naturally justified their own infringement of non-intervention , to which they officially subscribed , by reference to the conduct of the other side . |
| 5 | Later still , by the mid 1960s when the various organisations within the broad front of the civil rights movements had developed sufficiently to conduct their own educational programs , Highlander changed direction again in the thrust of its educational programs . |
| 6 | The many islands off British shores , by the fact of being islands , naturally developed their own isolated types but very few survive today . |
| 7 | See dockers are only protected , when they say they go on strike , they 're only protecting their own jobs in my opinion . |
| 8 | The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired . |
| 9 | German agents were allowed to act freely in what the British had hitherto considered their own area of influence . |
| 10 | Political edge groups like The Redskins , Billy Bragg and The Three Johns held the music press to ransom , peddling their polemics while feverishly climbing their own ladders to success . |
| 11 | Um it 's also the case that um particularly round about that time there was an an idea that children were not competent enough to know what had happened to them , not competent enough to know their own minds . |
| 12 | It seems that adults who provide optimal conversational support for language learning are those who are sensitive to the child 's conversational needs and are able constantly to adjust their own contributions to match those of the child ( Wells 1981 ; Wood 1988 ) . |
| 13 | It is absurd that Western citizens should give money to help victims of apartheid in Mozambique and Angola , only to find their own elected governments undermining that work by continuing to trade with South Africa . |
| 14 | The people , the councillors and the business community of Northern Ireland are coming together to create their own economic future and to undermine the men of violence on either side . |
| 15 | Intasun and Horizon are taking backward integration even further by not only operating their own airlines but also developing or buying up hotels and holiday centres in the Mediterranean area . |
| 16 | In all possibility the Perks merely infested their own elusive craft , following their urge to burrow into whatever comes along . |
| 17 | And who has not zipped past one of the BSM Mini Metros and fondly recalled their own experience of chronic problems with clutch control , seven point turns and botched emergency stops ? |
| 18 | But they had only done their own jobs . |
| 19 | Women , by contrast , not only support their own kin but their husband 's as well in some cases . |
| 20 | Some of them are capable and sensible drivers , but as the records show there are those who not only put their own lives at risk , but that of others as well . |
| 21 | His three children have all made their own way in the world , preferring not to join the family firm . |
| 22 | They will , as will stoats , penetrate into a doe rabbit 's breeding stop and kill her young and carry them away , perhaps to feed their own litters . |
| 23 | When one finds a sympathetic platform from which to display an idea , many more ideas are stimulated which , although having no sympathetic platform , may be strong enough to create their own . |
| 24 | Well I was , there 's nothing to say they 've got to all stick together they can all do their own thing ca n't they ? |
| 25 | Others had so mismanaged their own social work departments that they no longer had sufficient staff to fulfil their minimum statutory responsibilities to children at risk of abuse or to operate the Mental Health Act . |
| 26 | Give people who like gardening a chance to look after the Home 's own garden , perhaps growing their own seeds or vegetables . |
| 27 | The package would seem to be designed to appeal to people with enough money to make a ‘ once for all ’ holiday payment , but not enough to buy their own holiday home . |
| 28 | Mr Thornton 's position may be more sympathetically received today , when ‘ paternalism ’ has become a dirty word ; but if , as a later critic was to claim , such philanthropists as Dorothea wished only to fulfil their own personal sentiment of pity and justice , and could not escape the disability of their arbitrary self-appointment , they undoubtedly had a great deal to contribute in the absence of state measures to fill the gap . |
| 29 | They need only mind their own businesses , exercise tight financial controls , keep debt levels right down , cherish their customers , develop their people , innovate in both products and processes , and stay fully alert to changes on the marketplace and in technology . |
| 30 | Very often PR consultancies only give their own executives ' names , but there are times when a journalist will want to " go straight to the horse 's mouth " and a contact within the client company can be very important . |