Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was over 150 years ago that he saw the need for working men to have somewhere to meet in their spare time , to talk and relax . |
| 2 | and that that 's why the Americans came into the war , they did n't come into the war to look after us , they came in to look after their own interest in the |
| 3 | It 's all to do with their continued wilful rejection of Captain Bob 's morale-boosting pay and conditions package which , for some reason , they deplore . |
| 4 | The urban poor tried valiantly to give to their dead a dignity they had scarcely known in life ; but the attempt often proved unavailing . |
| 5 | Some people leave it very late to discover that they may not be aggressive/intellectual/pragmatic enough to succeed in their particular company . |
| 6 | Addicted only to love for their fellow man , these needle guerillas know that all life is precious |
| 7 | While they maintain there are no plans to change the status quo , they also admit they have invested heavily in the next stage of managerial succession and feel confident the culture they have created is strong enough to survive beyond their actual involvement . |
| 8 | Unless the United Nations peacekeepers proved very much tougher in Serbia than they have done in Croatia , that would have made it unlikely that Croats and Muslims would have felt secure enough to return to their former homes . |
| 9 | God might have oversight over the destinies of nations , for example , in times of war ; but individuals would do better to rely on their own foresight , and on such pressure on the state as could be exerted by groups organised to sustain collective interests . |
| 10 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 11 | Three hundred years after the events , our Irish nurses were still being exhorted not to consort with their British patients but to remember Drogheda and Wexford . |
| 12 | Genetic counselling was sought by all nine families , but it is still too soon to comment on their reproductive choices . |
| 13 | Sets of spaces found not to conform to their specified relationships can be redefined or repositioned in order to reestablish those relationships . |
| 14 | Thousands of East German troops urged their comrades in the Romanian forces not to fire on their fellow citizens peacefully demanding their human rights . |
| 15 | This is a code of conduct for directors of listed companies requiring them not to deal in their own company 's shares on short-term considerations or at a time when they are in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information . |
| 16 | Some of the anthropologists chose not to refer to their ethnographic experience but to address more general issues of methodology and definition ( Carrithers , Campbell , Heelas ) , but the majority of the papers are embedded in the particularity of an ethnographic setting . |
| 17 | Their Lordships endorse this statement of the manner in which the court should exercise its exceptional jurisdiction to halt criminal proceedings and , except in one respect , they prefer not to offer for their own account any further exploration of the prior authorities . |
| 18 | Other European countries will need to start raising taxes sooner to pay for their old people . |
| 19 | A BUILDER is bribing a herd of inquisitive elephants not to move into their new home too soon . |
| 20 | Just to dream of their stimulating discussions was enough to make his head spin . |
| 21 | The controllers , own awareness of local conditions and operational requirements ( not to speak of their pre-nationalisation experience in design and construction ) could , they thought , have been more fully harnessed to the task . |
| 22 | — not to use force or threaten the use of force against the Persian Gulf countries , and not to interfere in their internal affairs ; |
| 23 | We hear that progress has been rather slow of late but feel this has less to do with the quality of Swan Vesta the boys are using and more to do with their strange diets . |
| 24 | It was not so much a case of social science theories being senseless , misguided or absurd , but more to do with their serious lack of evidential support . |
| 25 | Their rundown had more to do with their social function becoming anachronistic . |
| 26 | All avid travellers , they return from their journeys with yet more to add to their exotic collection of objects and furniture . |
| 27 | NEARLY one German in three believes the Nazi era had its good points and that Jews were partly to blame for their own persecution , according to a new poll . |
| 28 | Thus the decision not to appoint Risk could be seen as an attempt by the Board to carry out its fiduciary duty to the shareholders ( ie to act in their best interests ) . |
| 29 | ‘ But do not drink , mortal ; it is hard for those who drink here to return to their own world … ’ |
| 30 | Ruth stared at him , remembering Fand 's words — It is hard for those who drink here to return to their own world … |