Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] with their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has fertility changed mostly because successive cohorts each grow up with their own characteristic attitude to childbearing ( ‘ cohort ’ effects ) , or do families respond in a more opportunistic way to the economic and social opportunities or problems of the moment ( ‘ period ’ effects ) ? |
| 2 | Meanwhile state-owned energy monopolies have come up with their own solution to generating more electricity without angering local environmentalists : moving their power stations to Eastern Europe . |
| 3 | It may happen when parents have indoctrinated their children , that is , laid down a set of beliefs without allowing the children freedom to think for themselves and to come up with their own reactions . |
| 4 | European manufacturers are afraid of getting left behind if the emerging handheld personal communicators generate a sudden rush of consumer excitement , and rather than wait for their labs to come up with their own local products , are weighing putting their names on one of the American products and manufacturing it locally . |
| 5 | DEC says it has no plans to licence its SVR4 work to other OSF/1 probables like Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , fully expecting them to come up with their own solutions in this area . |
| 6 | The suggestion was made that there should be community discussions with LEDU , that West Belfast people , in the absence of ideas from the IDB , are going to have to come up with their own ideas and develop them in conjunction with the universities , industrialists , and so on . |
| 7 | As we take apart the fight story , more and more men seem to be pushing in with their own excited commentaries . |
| 8 | Is it any wonder that I now plead with my right hon. and learned Friend to intervene on behalf of pupils and parents who wish to move their children over the border to Staffordshire because they are fed up with their own high-spending council and they want that council to take responsibility ? |
| 9 | When they both protested , seemingly in vain , at having lines cut , they came up with their own solutions they would accept the cuts , but make do with them badly . |
| 10 | Saw faces that half an hour before had been puffed up with their own infallibility deflated by doubt . |
| 11 | None of the people on stage knew what was happening , the girls continued to sing their plaintive song and the other men danced on with their own pieces of chiffon , hoping that Ken would go away and disappear for ever . |
| 12 | Identical twins growing up with their own image constantly near them , sometimes very in tune with what the other is thinking and feeling , may have a problem in their search for a marriage partner on several counts . |
| 13 | That would only have been necessary had the troops been requisitioning other people 's equipment , rather than turning out with their own ambulances . |
| 14 | It can bring together polar opposites in a way that would never happen in London or LA , where musicians hang out with their own kind . |
| 15 | Major areas of application of consumer multimedia include music , games , home education and self-improvement , popular reference , ‘ how to ’ applications such as DIY , car maintenance etc , and child-minding software designed to keep children quiet and entertained while adults get on with their own lives for short but blissful periods of time . |
| 16 | Everybody gets on with their own lives and old links get used less and less till they 're forgotten , and before you know it , people are dead and gone and it 's too late . |
| 17 | Some women find , for instance , they can renew old friendships which did n't fit in with their former lives ; interests that may have been put aside many years ago to accommodate someone else can be taken out of mothballs . |
| 18 | Tanzanians were brought up with their own musical , dance and oral traditions but at school or college were taught the language , culture and even the history of the colonial power . |
| 19 | Rivals in Britain , Japan and Finland are now coming out with their own similar designs . |
| 20 | What a lovely sight the ships make , decked out with their own coloured light bulbs , the tugs and cargo boats as well as the eight or nine cruise liners . |
| 21 | We can provide a small group with a stimulus in the play area and let them get on with their own play , occasionally intervening ( as described below ) . |
| 22 | Many people wish to be left alone to get on with their own lives and they must be allowed to do so , and there must also be opportunities for different degrees and different kinds of involvement . |
| 23 | How long can you leave the rest of the class to get on with their own work ? |
| 24 | The nations of Europe , increasingly taken up with their own military and economic problems , responded by increasingly withdrawing from any attempt to exact further concessions . |
| 25 | Moreover , other territories were taken up with their own internal problems . |
| 26 | the tinkers , did they come up with their own scythes ? |
| 27 | While these , of course , are unique to each school , other schools , by using similar methods , would come up with their own action plans , secure in the knowledge that those most involved with the school have had a chance to pull together to ensure that appropriate learning , with support , is taking place . |
| 28 | The Trust agreed to let HUG come up with their own feasibility study on how the clinic could be better used . |
| 29 | Kangaroos happened to exploit two-legged hopping , and so ended up with their own uniquely ( at least since the dinosaurs ) massive hind legs and tail . |
| 30 | The only thing that could warp the way that the band goes is the media , because they lie for the most part ; they come up with their own reasons and their own interpretations and people just believe what they read . ’ |