Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also insisted that I sue their front door — and not my own — so that people had to go through their gallery . |
| 2 | Eleven o'clock , there were n't restrictions then on , they could keep open as long as they liked , no restrictions on , on time , and er as I say their own place you know it really it was picturesque , I thought in since erm I contacted you I 've been thinking how , what I could help with and er what I could still think about , and er it was really a sight because to walk and it always used to be crowded , well it was one of the best markets round here and er people used to go off and from Bloxwich and er although there 's a good market at Walsall there was n't a Bloxwich market then sadly for years and years , but erm and then if you went to Wolverhampton you got to walk through Windsfield you got to er walk everywhere you went then and except on a Saturday night when the wagonettes used to run on a Saturday but it was amazing to see the girl behind the range now controlling |
| 3 | Yet I did not want to leave things alone entirely , without making an effort , but it is restricted to the expression of two things — the cypresses — the olive trees — let others who are better and more powerful than I reveal their symbolic language … |
| 4 | I read their new position with the carriage and started knitting . |
| 5 | I like their useful monstrousness . |
| 6 | Once I am interested in an act 's music and I like their live performance , the first thing I want to know is where this new band sees itself going . |
| 7 | And I like their white teeth . |
| 8 | I remember their first UK showcase . |
| 9 | I think of Claudia and Victoria and Candice and I compare their facial motions in an impertinent fashion . |
| 10 | I suppose their new single will be the price of a double album ! ! |
| 11 | Now I use their old vivarium to rear owls in . |
| 12 | They have their hind shoes removed , just in case they kick , but I leave their front shoes on to protect their hooves . |
| 13 | ‘ Somewhere , ’ Lee said , ‘ I do n't know where — in Africa , I think — there dwell two tribes , close to one another — I mean I think their assumed boundaries could well be adjacent — who hold diametrically opposed attitudes to the birth of twins . |
| 14 | I think their greatest achievement was to realise that despite the fact that she was unable to speak , she was still able to communicate in other ways . |
| 15 | In my experience , even at this early stage when the process has hardly begun , the family trying to make sense of what is happening around them focus their general distress on what they see as the church 's preoccupation with making money , rather than offering help . |
| 16 | Types of racism which do not conform to this model are either ignored , marginalized , or ‘ redescribed ’ in ways which deny their independent significance . |
| 17 | These discussions will include representatives from supply and end-user companies which gain their competitive edge from putting advanced information technology into their products . |
| 18 | Where previously the hiatus between sections acted as an invitation for the reader to cross-relate them , Pynchon now gives individual captions to episodes which emphasize their local autonomy and which attenuate plot continuity almost out of existence . |
| 19 | governing bodies are free to make expenditure decisions which match their own priorities ; and |
| 20 | No one , of course , has asked to read it , for — if my argument is correct — the service has no need of any reminder of how the ideology works or how to implement the paradigms which support their cultural norms . |
| 21 | The waits were officially disbanded in 1832 but existed as am independent body until the late nineteenth century , by which time their peculiar custom was becoming more than a little irritating to certain residents of the town . |
| 22 | This is very much what we are about in developing financial services for our cardmembers which meet their particular requirements and provide added value . ’ |
| 23 | Furthermore , in his continued discussion of the problem in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego he likens the manic state to festivals such as the Roman Saturnalia , ‘ which owe their cheerful character to the release which they bring ’ . |
| 24 | The choice is varied and students may take advantage of tuition in many sports or alternatively may organize their own programme of activities and book the various sports facilities at times which suit their academic timetables . |
| 25 | The children of the rich may work in health food shops or other faddish and esoteric pursuits which utilize their educational experience and may provide a more acceptable form of class reproduction than simple inheritance . |
| 26 | The Fund 's overseas director Mike Aaronson said on Aug. 29 that there was " a shameful degree of infighting between UN agencies which pursue their own interests " . |
| 27 | For instance , he examines the development of dolls from 3000 BC , via the 18th century mechanical automata , through to the possible future delights ( or horrors ) of pornographic robots which entertain their human companions in ways that might well be measured in kilocuddles . |
| 28 | The appropriate change in day length causes the animals ' bodies to produce hormones which activate their reproductive organs . |
| 29 | Or in the same general category there are institutions like some of those in broadcasting ( in Great Britain the BBC ) which depend on one form or another of public revenue but which direct their own production . |
| 30 | But baleen whales ( Mysticeta ) , such as the blue whale and hump back , which use their vast curtains of whalebone to sieve a living from the sea , are very seldom stranded . |