Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last straw for the soldiers was not so much their own suffering as the perception that the home and hearth which , ostensibly , they were fighting to defend , was itself under threat : ‘ You would think they would come to some terms when they see the country in that state . ’ |
| 2 | In addition to their fears that ratification would fail and perhaps also their own doubts about the enterprise , French governments argued that ratification must await agreement by their proposed partners on suggested modifications to the treaty , as well as upon a clarification of the British attitude . |
| 3 | But this policy has been pursued along with changes that have allowed the very rich to increase still further their own wealth holdings , while simultaneously excluding the very poorest from this process . |
| 4 | Wives , becoming less absorbed as babies become more clearly their own persons , but often remaining tied , tired or bored by the demands of toddlers , perhaps feeling lonely and lacking enough external stimulus , may similarly find themselves resenting and envying what they see as their husbands ' ‘ freedom ’ of action . |
| 5 | Anthony Phillips may have quit Genesis twenty-two years ago , but he has never stopped exploring the musical landscape that was once uniquely their own . |
| 6 | Poles had experienced the crisis as a series of personal events ; they had not experienced it as a nation through institutions and organisations they saw as undeniably their own . |
| 7 | The stories about these goddesses show that they are not beneficent ; they are mostly older females who choose young men — sometimes even their own sons — as lovers to be kept in subjugation . |
| 8 | With Dundee 's Ronald Duncan — the 1991 British champion and Britain 's best in the world rankings — out through a back injury , the Bell brothers had it pretty much their own way . |
| 9 | We imagine our children being accosted in dark alleys and force-fed narcotics until their souls are no longer their own . |
| 10 | These jumped-up jacks-in-office have things all too much their own way . |
| 11 | There were three brothers , Jacob , Phillip and John , who were very much their own men and who would stick to a viewpoint through thick and thin . |
| 12 | The main point to make , however , is that few teachers consciously build in such skills when planning resource-based exercises , and regrettably few teachers could either articulate the nine simple points above or even demonstrate very convincingly their own abilities in a library setting . |