Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people are rarely honoured in their lifetime . |
| 2 | Any course modules successfully completed throughout their career can then be included in a record of achievement , ensuring an up to date record of professional development undertaken . |
| 3 | The Bishops of Rochester now mostly lived at their Palace at Rochester or Lambeth , the houses at Halling and Trottescliffe being allowed to decay owing to the expense of maintaining them . |
| 4 | ‘ Being so close to Merseyside is a disadvantage , because a lot of Liverpool lads would rather stay in their area where there 's such a good standard than travel into Wales . ’ |
| 5 | With your wonderful knowledge of the Bible , Mr. Deputy Speaker , you produced the Lazarus motion which revived them all from the dead and they eventually passed on their way through the House . |
| 6 | With these exceptions , troops lived in barracks , and certainly the officers were rarely posted to their home territories . |
| 7 | Many parents bitterly objected to their loss of control over their children ( and particularly to the violence of ritualised corporal punishment ) . |
| 8 | Through therapy , teaching and psychological help , some patients are eventually rehabilitated for their return into society . |
| 9 | The Christian should remember that Jesus will not desert his modern-day disciples who may be called on to suffer for their faith ( The Calming of the Storm ) . |
| 10 | Amendments to the bill will be tabled — at the last attempt it collected more than 300 , and effectively sank under their weight . |
| 11 | I really enjoy touring , whereas a lot of musicians are n't interested ; they 'd rather concentrate on their session work . ’ |
| 12 | Pious it may sound , but I do actually believe that there is a sense in which a group of students do collectively know much of what they need to know about learning : the problem of the PGCE year is to give them confidence that they know ; and the experience that knowing they can successfully act on their knowledge . |
| 13 | Cassie stared for a moment at the spots of rain , apparently fascinated by their presence , and then she glanced quickly towards the window and the calm , unclouded summer sky beyond . |
| 14 | The work of different mosaicists might be visible here , so hinting at their number and therefore the probable diversity of subsequent developments . |
| 15 | Locke does not mean , though , that ideas are necessarily received in their simplicity : complexes can be got directly from experience , and do not always actually have to be built up from experienced simples . |
| 16 | They became interested in the Oakeley Family and did much research for their Introduction , when they published extracts of the diary in 1980 . |
| 17 | Eight times larger than a lion , the griffin has an acute sense of hearing , and its talons are highly prized for their ability to change colour when they come into contact with poison . |
| 18 | They were perhaps justified in their anger at the relatively low priority accorded to older people . |
| 19 | But they are still highly circumscribed in their authority , and wholly dependent upon their salaried employment . |
| 20 | It 's not all going according to plan , however , and most days they wind up literally singing for their supper . |
| 21 | Yet such groups are extremely limited in their scope . |
| 22 | They were closely followed by the children who settled down to wait for their treasure trove . |
| 23 | The limitations of this class were clear : they were the opportunists whose sense of failure and sense of grievance could be nicely manipulated through their sense of German identity and nationalism . |
| 24 | Today the Chippendales , put down their bibles long enough to pull on their bicycle shorts and reach for burn . |
| 25 | This project will develop means which students can better profit from their stay abroad and which will enable their tutors to integrate the learning during the year with parts of the course which takes place before and after . |
| 26 | If zebras and other grazers all succeeded in their aim , the lions would die of starvation . |
| 27 | Later , I asked her again : had n't she been somewhat shattered by their tone ? |
| 28 | Could my right hon. Friend find time today to think again about the significance of an historic referendum which took place in the Ukraine on 1 December , in which the people of Ukraine freely and democratically voted for their sovereignty and independence ? |
| 29 | In Scotland at that time hundreds of Covenanters were brutally martyred for their faith in Christ . |
| 30 | However , the fact that the royal scholars had found conservative rather than revolutionary arguments to support their case only added to their appeal , and Henry read the Collectanea with interest and approval in the late summer of 1530 . |