Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The military bomb boys can churn out their own fissile materials without difficulty . |
| 2 | Hungarians are no longer afraid , at least not so long as reformers run Russia , that Soviet tanks will snuff out their democratic experiment , as they did in 1956 . |
| 3 | ‘ In the last year some of the rooms have been transformed , because we actually encourage clients to buy or bring in their own beds . |
| 4 | There was no way they 'd give up their best friends . |
| 5 | The original board ( linked by the presence of John Locke to the Carolinas and the colonies of the 1660s ) helped to unite the two New Jerseys , and continued the policy of encouraging proprietors to sell or give up their special powers and turn their domains into royal colonies . |
| 6 | Sometimes a single son or daughter will give up their own home to come back and care for parents . |
| 7 | In a study of potential nursing home residents it was observed that the old people were likely to undergo a major psychological upheaval as they realised that they must soon give up their own homes and accept institutionalisation for the rest of their lives ( Tobin and Lieberman , 1976 ) . |
| 8 | However , once they learn the conventional term for a specific meaning , they must give up their own coinage and begin instead to use the conventional term . |
| 9 | They did give up their own time to come along and we appreciate that . ’ |
| 10 | Only six per cent would give up their priceless pets in exchange for £1 million . |
| 11 | BANKS should give up their High Street locations and move into the back alleys with the grubby little money lenders they increasingly resemble . |
| 12 | ‘ These console type games costing around £36 are not cheap so I thought customers could bring back their used games within , say , a month and swop for another for a fiver , ’ said Mrs Spence . |
| 13 | By living in a hired room somewhere , they might spin out their financial resources a little longer . |
| 14 | In prisons which offer art or creative writing classes , inmates will pour out their frustrated feelings in painting or poetry . |
| 15 | Mr Major 's transport ministers have desperately tried to discover some way in which they could carry out their former leader 's instruction that the railways must be privatised . |
| 16 | They were even willing to occupy pre-moulded nests so long as they could carry out their normal movements before laying . |
| 17 | At the very least , therefore , there must be some preliminary analysis at SBU level , even if that ignores the interdependencies , and this must then be transmitted to corporate level before the central teams can carry out their cross-SBU analyses of the key corporate-level strategies . |
| 18 | Production cells may carry out their own machine maintenance , set-ups , and even packing and labelling . |
| 19 | A draft report on that study , by Southampton University , will be ready this month , while the NRA will carry out their own survey . |
| 20 | The lease runs out in May and on Saturday the Rimers will send out their last Grand National horse . |
| 21 | They should send out their own photographers , let them risk their lives . |
| 22 | then again all I turned round and said the bloke that I hit , he said he did n't want to press charges , but then I thought the police can bring out their own prosecution against me but they turned round and said no he does n't want to press charges so we 'll just caution you again . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm tired of reading and hearing about bands who do nothing but slag off their first record , and blame the producer for not getting it right . |
| 24 | The athletes would pump up their compressed-air bottles themselves , beforehand . |
| 25 | Mops and cloths should be provided so that children can mop up their own spills , and so help to prevent accidents . |
| 26 | There was a canteen for snacks in the building but they preferred to go to a bar in rue Pigalle where an Englishman , Fred Payne , would dish up their favourite meal which was still egg and chips . |
| 27 | But the pair , openly hostile by the end of last year , will patch up their mutual differences . |
| 28 | We will tear out their sentimental imperialist heart . ’ |
| 29 | Both of them knew , however , that the scrambler equipment was now emitting a powerful high-frequency signal which would effectively blot out their subsequent conversation from any known form of electronic surveillance . |
| 30 | Indeed , the more recent history of pension provision shows more concern on the part of both governments and occupational pension providers to increase widows ' benefits ( themselves symbolic of the financial dependence of wives in marriage ) , than to help women build up their own occupational pension records . |