Example sentences of "[coord] their [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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31 Their mothers and their partners ' mothers play a particularly important part in this informal economy of care , providing both practical help with child care and material support , typically in kind rather than cash .
32 Now that I had my dolls and their dolls ' houses , I set about playing with them with the greatest pleasure , and when I visited Wood Green I shut my eyes to some of the realities .
33 Buthelezi and the ANC deputy president , Nelson Mandela , meeting in Durban on March 30 amid media claims that both their own and their organizations ' authority had been diminished by the events , issued a new five-point plan to try to control the situation .
34 With prices at their lowest level for 14 years , small farmers are turning away from the crop , even though it is often their only source of income and their governments ' only source of foreign exchange .
35 Investigation into the lives and times of writers in the 1920s in Peking , China through their reminiscences and their firends ' , both written and oral .
36 They lived together peaceably enough , busying themselves with good works and their neighbours ' affairs , and collecting objets d'art for their overcrowded gem of a house with a ruthless zeal which was a byword for miles around .
37 The structure of the ‘ curriculum for all ’ rests fundamentally on the Conservative government 's intention to locate children in standardised hierarchies of achievement in each subject throughout their school career , so that they could be compared to each other , their teachers ' performance compared to that of other teachers and their schools ' standards set against their competitors in the marketplace .
38 Matching applicants to available jobs — both under- and overqualified employees represent significant risks by being a negative influence on morale ( both their own and their co-workers ' ) .
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