Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] their [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom . |
| 2 | The Abortion Law Reform Association , founded in 1936 by seven women , of whom Dora Russell , Stella Browne and Frida Laski were particularly sympathetic to the labour movement , believed abortion to be safe , but called only for legal abortion to be made available on health grounds , using as their justification the way in which deaths due to abortion inflated the maternal mortality rate . |
| 3 | They involve in their essence the consideration of the future of the nation state . |
| 4 | To enable teachers to perform this function with regard to language , they will need in their training the research tools that will enable them to do this . |
| 5 | Most Christians , if asked about their faith , would include in their explanation the simple joy and happiness that faith has given to them . |
| 6 | The media through which the sharers of a culture refine their insight into what goes on in each other 's heads are the arts in general , through which the most aware evoke in their audience the look and feel of things from their own viewpoints ( in the case of the drama and novel , of multiple interacting viewpoints ) , in fixed forms available to be explored at our leisure . |
| 7 | The unions have dropped from their claim the demand for increased annual leave , extra holiday and pay for long service , and reductions in working hours . |
| 8 | When one person has in their mind the whole range of the project from initial conception through data analysis and system design to sitting at the computer and typing the program lines into the computer , it 's not only more efficient : the person is creating in freedom like an artist and is involved in the act of creation at a deeper level and as a result enjoys the whole thing . |
| 9 | It might have been said that since one representative was absent they could not do anything about it , but the fact of the matter is they plainly had come to their decision the day before . |
| 10 | If matters are n't resolved to their satisfaction the environmental groups warn whatever Timbmet say they may well come back . |
| 11 | The Ferry loop line brought the trams to the waterfront , passing on their return the Pharos Lighthouse , which had been built in 1840 . |
| 12 | Before going for their lunch the Physical Training Instructors must complete the last of their duties as ushers . |
| 13 | As they climbed after their quarry the Hurricanes were suddenly ‘ bounced ’ by the Bf109Es , Oblt . |
| 14 | They had twice had in their possession the girl they were sent to recapture and once had the boy . |
| 15 | Okay , let's swap over , what I want you to remember is it 's not a conversation it 's not the try not to get into a conversation what we 're trying to do is we 're trying to stick to one person 's trying to stick to their point the other person 's trying to take them off it , okay ? |
| 16 | Tae Kwon-Do champions David , Gavin and Laura Scott just ca n't stop winning and this month add to their collection the Northern Electric Foundation for Sport Promising Talent Award , worth £1,500 . |
| 17 | If a government inspector agrees with their decision the private hospital will not be built and the CT Scanner which Bioplan promised to bring to Darlington will be lost . |
| 18 | Just when they get near their destination the raft capsizes , the missionaries nearly drown and the Indians disappear . |
| 19 | The power of the officials stems from their understanding the processes and procedures that characterise the bureaucratic organisation . |
| 20 | Secure in their strength the Elves began to run down their armies and fleets . |
| 21 | The Samaritans petitioned the Syrian king in order to dissociate themselves from the Jews , to be considered Sidonians and to give to their god the name of Zeus Hellenios : " Now you have dealt with the Jews as their wickedness deserves , but the King 's officers , in the belief that we follow the same practices as they through kinship with them , are involving us in similar charges , whereas we are Sidonians by origin , as is evident from our state documents . |
| 22 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every local authority to enforce within their district the provisions of this Act and of the orders made under those provisions , and for that purpose to institute and carry on such proceedings in respect of contraventions of the said provisions and such orders as aforesaid as may be necessary to secure observance thereof . |
| 23 | It would be an advantage if Christian writers would take as their example the actual usage of the Christian Scriptures . ’ |
| 24 | And they had to change because apartheid was at a dead end the people of South Africa were continuing with their struggle the country was ungovernable and there stood the prospect of more sanctions which would bring the noose around the apartheid system . |
| 25 | Best of all , he tells of the people caught up on the fringes of small wars , and finds in their resilience the small mercies of his title . |
| 26 | Their Majesties mount the platform and remain standing under a canopy , having on their right the ministers , marshals , admirals and the Court officers ; on their left are the Empress 's ladies and facing them , the diplomatic body . |
| 27 | This does not follow , however , from Simmel 's approach ; for him , the Walbiri 's intimate relation to the objective forms taken by their social products , and their classifications of the landscape , might well have appeared more ‘ cultured ’ than the attitudes of his German contemporaries , who , in spite of having at their disposal the enormous possibilities of mass culture , did not possess the means for assimilating these into the development of person or group . |
| 28 | Many history conferences in the 1970s and 1980s took as their theme the defence of the subject . |
| 29 | They chose for their project the task of landscaping an area of waste land , turning it into a very pleasant garden with flowers , trees and shrubs for the benefit of the village . |
| 30 | Some contemporary defenders of human rights , and with them animal rights , such as Bernard Rollin , use in their support the arguments of Ronald Dworkin in his influential book Taking Rights Seriously ( 1977 ) . |