Example sentences of "[pron] [be] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm their only daughter . ’ |
| 2 | There were others , I pointed out , who might wish Ralemberg 's death and I was their pathetic dupe . |
| 3 | I think my parents were rather surprised at my reaction , because I was their first child and they had been following child development textbooks that said that children ought to start making social relationships at two . |
| 4 | ‘ I was their first student . ’ |
| 5 | I was their new rector . |
| 6 | Long , black , fat-bellied and red-eyed , the bastards watched me hungrily as if I was their next meal . |
| 7 | They are not so much status-based as functional , but they have an all-pervasive influence on the individual 's life far beyond the narrow functions which are their specific object . |
| 8 | With its aim of achieving ‘ a greater unity between its Members for the purpose of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress ’ , the new body became Western Europe 's first postwar political organisation , one which immediately and daringly claimed that it would work for ‘ an economic and political union ’ . |
| 9 | The composer and the writer of the text ( where one is used ) mediate and transcribe the words and music which are their particular inspiration from God . |
| 10 | The first is that the stockmarket does not collapse again , causing banks ' equity capital and their unrealised share gains ( which are their main cushion against bad loans ) to dwindle . |
| 11 | Anyone with any memories or information about Walker Brothers , the Pagefield Ironworks and in particular the railcars which were their post-war bread and butter , should contact him on |
| 12 | Here I must emphasize that , although social anthropologists in the field concentrate a great deal of their attention on day-to-day domestic relationships , it is not really the set of domestic relationships as such which is their ultimate focus of interest . |
| 13 | But they must find Shetland pretty inhospitable , with no trees to support the grubs which is their normal diet . |
| 14 | Many of them have had their terms and conditions reduced , some have been dismissed and they now have no one to turn to as they have turned their back on the Trade Union which is their only guarantee of protection ’ . |
| 15 | The Belfast date is part of a tour to promote their current chart-topping album ‘ Promises And Lies ’ , which is their first album of original material for some time . |
| 16 | Remember that we , we sent er ten pounds to the area committee , which they 've said , thank you very much indeed , erm for , and , and there 's a meeting erm next in June , which is their next meeting . |
| 17 | But many of his backbenchers are getting over-excited ( which is their constitutional function ) . |
| 18 | Walks extend for miles over the hill-tops ; the great beauty of which is their wild simplicity : they are perfectly smooth , without rocks . |
| 19 | We went out , 2–0 at Old trafford , in front of 30,000 — which was their only consolation … they all thought theyd see us get thrashed . |
| 20 | The assumption was that their wages only supplemented the family income and , anyway , they did not need to find work interesting because they had families to look after , which was their real job . |
| 21 | They , they did have the option that they could have had complete absolute egalitarianism and made everybody into a poor peasant , but the commun but the commun the Communist Party were progressive and they s saw that how that you needed to have industrialization in order to increase the welfare of peasants which was their ultimate aim , and I mean it appears that how that they did n't actually care er what kinds of means they 'd have to achieve that , as in capitalism was justified in this longer term perspective . |
| 22 | I asked innumerable friends and acquaintances which was their favourite house in England ; almost invariably their choice was built between these dates . |
| 23 | When I was asking them which was their favourite area , not unsurprisingly a couple of them mentioned the Lake District — anytime except in the summer holidays . |
| 24 | Patrick showed her Spar Cove , which was their favourite haunt — a fascinating little bay , formed by the clyst itself . |
| 25 | Though no longer the sole data providers which was their previous role , data processing departments now need to function as enablers , responsible for co-ordinating various computer systems . |
| 26 | and of course they had the Thames which was their main highway , Thames was much easier to use than |
| 27 | The two men were picked up on the Ross ice shelf , about 350 miles from the coastal camp at Scott base which was their original target . |
| 28 | We had read that the Toraja hunted heads until as recently as the 1920s , but they were feared by their neighbours less for their ferocity than for their magic , part of which was their unnerving reputation for being able to cause the dead to walk . |
| 29 | Tokyo 's newly rising share prices are likely to prove as fickle as the foreigners who are their main support |
| 30 | They 're not viable for women who are their own breadwinners . |