Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 60 per cent of self-poisoners take psychotropic drugs that have been prescribed for them in their overdoses ( Hawton et al. 1977 ) . |
| 2 | He made me feel cheap , as if I 'm the type to bitch about somebody behind their back . ’ |
| 3 | Gorbad drove his wolf chariot straight at the Count , its three slavering wolves leaping as one for their enemy 's throat . |
| 4 | The women ended up having to negotiate everything through their husbands , and when they were expected to work for nothing on their husbands ' plots they refused and demanded full payment . |
| 5 | It is dealt with in detail here because visitors in search of out of the way spots are almost certain to pass through it on their way to Appenzell , or even to break their journey here . |
| 6 | Most media professionals appear to know what is expected of them in their various organisations , each of which has different political backers , and the media product tends to be created accordingly . |
| 7 | The primary source of their superior financial performance is capital gains from acquiring corporate assets and activities that , under present ownership , yield less than their opportunity values , and disposing of them at their higher market values . |
| 8 | But the characters played by Leslie Banks in The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ) , or Robert Donat in The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) , are archetypically English in their capacity to muddle through , triumphing over the dark forces ranged against them by their flexibility of mind . |
| 9 | Where the latter have rejected other gods in favour of the one they wish to follow , the former has attempted to assimilate the many gods in which it believes into a single Deity who stands behind them as their ground . |
| 10 | They found a wooden bench seat in a corner and squeezed into it with their drinks — Edward had a pint of bitter and Sally a Babycham in a pretty glass decorated with a dancing fawn in a blue neck-bow . |
| 11 | They long above everything for their two parents to be reunited . |
| 12 | And very soon they were , he said a moment ago they had taken it from Jesus , they were no longer trusting in him , and they started to trust in themselves in their own ability . |
| 13 | To get there they had to cross the mud , and sank in it to their ankles , but below the soft surface the foreshore was hard here , and although it was a filthy journey it was n't particularly difficult . |
| 14 | With companies continuing to cut back on corporate travel , the first-class and business-class passengers who have traditionally provided airlines with their profits are not returning in anything like their earlier numbers . |
| 15 | Today 's senior citizens may complain that they do not receive the respect or consideration that was expected from them by their parents , but most of them welcome the far more open and equal relationship which exist between them and their adult children . |
| 16 | Three black youths with huge , multicoloured knitted caps pulled over their dreadlocks like tea-cosies lean against the plateglass window of the shopping-precinct cafe , drumming a reggae beat on it with their finger-tips until shooed away by the manageress . |
| 17 | Finally , may I ask all hire car users to write to me with their comments on the use of a mobile phone . |
| 18 | Candidates must now set up personal machines manned by workers attracted to them by their individual qualities and stands on the issues with little or no reference to party loyalty . |
| 19 | Both the New Criticism and Scrutiny were products of the modernist literary revolution , and drew on it for their methods and their assumptions . |
| 20 | ‘ So the folk of the village capitalized on this gift from the gods , that had come to them in their darkest hour . |
| 21 | They were free to raise funds elsewhere if they could , and one at least got a substantial sum from a local authority which would not have supported a project of that nature if it had not come to them from their own school children . |
| 22 | " Who exactly are the slant-eyed oriental gentlemen who 've come among us in their gaudy silk dressing gowns and funny hats ? " |
| 23 | The ladies mocked him , laughing at him behind their hands . ’ |
| 24 | How she had looked at him on their wedding day — as if he were a god ! |
| 25 | A compositor is employed as a compositor ; a machine-minder ( printer ) likewise has to keep to his own job ; the print union is a strong one — and very jealously guard the many gains won by them for their members . |
| 26 | ‘ has liberated English public law from the fetters that the courts had theretofore imposed upon themselves so far as determinations of inferior courts and statutory tribunals were concerned , by drawing esoteric distinctions between errors of law committed by such tribunals that went to their jurisdiction , and errors of law committed by them within their jurisdiction . |
| 27 | ‘ has liberated English public law from the fetters that the courts had theretofore imposed upon themselves so far as determinations of inferior courts and statutory tribunals were concerned , by drawing esoteric distinctions between errors of law committed by such tribunals that went to their jurisdiction , and errors of law committed by them within their jurisdiction . |
| 28 | He is also puzzled by the fact that the Smyrna and Georgetown plants both have a pool of job applicants selected for them by their state governments before they make the final choice . |
| 29 | For those who enjoy making every meal a special occasion — whether it 's Saturday brunch or a dinner party for eight — and so are looking for something between their ‘ best ’ fine bone china service and oven-to-tableware , Wedgwood has introduced a range of ‘ casual ’ designs , on fine bone china , on Queen 's Ware and on their new fine china body . |
| 30 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |