Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a ghetto they create their own lifestyles and moral values and often express theologies that are anti-Christian as well as anti-human — pelagian , Arminian and gnostic . |
| 2 | Over five centuries they developed their own art and architecture , which were derived from Greek and oriental sources , but adapted to their needs in Italy . |
| 3 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 4 | At the point when abolitionists turned to making the emancipation issue a mass campaign they published their own news-sheet , the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter ( 1825–30 ) , followed by the Anti-Slavery Reporter ( 1830–3 ) and thereafter the mark of an antislavery organisation with claims to national standing was a paper of this kind . |
| 5 | And some places that erm I know that in some places they have their own local way of speaking and then they speak a different way to other folk . |
| 6 | What was happening in Europe whilst this was happening cos that 's after the war they had their own development and they developed a different type of machine called a flat machine . |
| 7 | The Australian Aborigines make a clear distinction between the works of art they consider their own and those they claim go back to the time of their creation , popularly referred to as the Dreamtime in all literature about Aborigines . |
| 8 | yeah , and they make their own , he 's got all the machinery and all , all the people they make their own pumps |
| 9 | Mr Major and his Secretary of State Ian Lang mounted a robust defence of the Union , deliberately challenging the opposition parties on ground they consider their own . |
| 10 | Coverage of all kinds can be both favourable and unfavourable — no matter whether politicians are in government or in opposition — and politicians themselves must bear the prime responsibility for ensuring that when they do get access to the media they present their own case well . |
| 11 | So surely if the government er , have , ca n't have the money they cut their own throat ? |
| 12 | Echo and The Bunnymen : The Arena , Middlesbrough THE last time Echo & The Bunnymen graced a stage in Middlesbrough they brought their own detective story with them entitled The Strange Case of the Disappearing Audience . |
| 13 | Once they were on the road they had their own coach , staying a day or half a day in each town . |
| 14 | You bring your children up , you do your best , but in the end they go their own way . ’ |
| 15 | Brian Jacksons wrote eloquently about the still frequently thwarted aspirations of young fathers today to be different from the invisible or authoritarian men they remember their own fathers as having been . |
| 16 | During the ensuing eight centuries they recognised , at different times , the suzerainty of the Byzantine , Habsburg and Serbian emperors , the King of Hungary , the Doge of Venice and the Sultan of Turkey , but in the main they kept their own internal self-government . |
| 17 | FOUR young pigs set sail for the Falklands last month and to make sure they did n't get hungry on the way they took their own feed with them . |
| 18 | Many step-parents feel guilty for not loving their step-children in the way they do their own . |
| 19 | Acute peasant disappointment at being made to pay for land they considered their own led to widespread and in places violent protest between March and May 1861 . |
| 20 | After the painting they used their own products to furnish the house , surrounding the old ranges and fireplaces , and covering the floor of the glazed backyard with tartan ceramic tiles . |
| 21 | By the time they produce their own young they are solitaries with no older females around to teach them by example . |