Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tribal communities — who have ownership rights over 97 per cent of the country 's land — are becoming more reluctant to sign agreements with the logging companies , the RIC says , while developments such as the " walkabout " sawmill are allowing them to operate their own small-scale logging operations in a more or less sustainable manner . |
| 2 | A lead team of managers and trade union members oversees the whole programme but the emphasis is on involving employees and encouraging them to solve their own problems . |
| 3 | It 's very important to reassure the person , to help make them feel their own worth and to deal with the incontinence before it becomes a habit . |
| 4 | While sending hearty congratulations to the trophy winners , Central Council also offers sincere thanks to all the Branches whose extra endeavours led them to beat their own previous records . |
| 5 | The history of the evolution of this project , provides a fascinating insight in the way in which Highlander has chosen to work in communities , and seeks to enable them to develop their own solutions to the situations which they themselves perceive as problem issues . |
| 6 | The working hypothesis reached by the counsellor has to be transferred to the counsellees , not through direct transmission , but by helping them achieve their own insights . |
| 7 | And in trying to protect the future of Europe 's television manufacturers , may actually be helping them to cut their own throats . |
| 8 | Soon after his appointment he went to the north to meet representatives of the non-Burman races , and in effect asked them to state their own terms for participation in a Union of Burma . |
| 9 | Fostering links between school and community , after strengthening the communities by enabling them to develop their own organisations to meet existing needs whether in the social , cultural or economic fields . |
| 10 | Rather than passively absorbing the latest word from abroad , the intelligenty selected those ideas which helped them to address their own problems . |
| 11 | The prisoners who built it left their own rather macabre memento by incorporating a hangman 's noose into one of the rafters , with a nearby door leading into empty space and a four metre drop . |
| 12 | The hardest loss for many is to move ultimately from their own home to a home for the elderly , a move which they recognize may well be the last one they will ever make , and which forces them to confront their own death . |
| 13 | I told them to do their own dirty work . |
| 14 | What it aims to do is discipline students , systematically , in the areas mentioned above , training them to edit their own work , correcting errors in style , grammar , and punctuation . |
| 15 | Angels are notoriously difficult to sex , especially without experience , so buy several and let them choose their own mates . |
| 16 | Cats sleep a lot , so let them choose their own spots — instead of a cosy fireside , your two might prefer an old box on top of the filing cabinet . |
| 17 | Let them do their own dirty work . ’ |
| 18 | Oh I see , yes , that 's right Well let them mark their own I mean who 's gon na cheat ? |
| 19 | They had their own police photographers out there , let them get their own pictures . |
| 20 | Let them get their own prescriptions . |
| 21 | But as many as are thus sottish , let them enjoy their own wildness and ignorance , it is sufficient for a good man that he is conscious unto himself that he is more nobly descended , better bred and born , and more skilfully taught by the purged faculties of his own mind.2 |
| 22 | Melanie wondered if she would have to take a tray to the basement but it seemed they had their own gas ring down there and brewed up continually for themselves . |
| 23 | ‘ Hope they brought their own sugar . ’ |
| 24 | Kenya 's dilemma then became that of finding how to make foreigners welcome whilst forcing them to bring their own capital . |
| 25 | Every manager has a responsibility towards his subordinates ( ie to make sure they know what is expected of them , to help them set their own objectives , to help them attain their objectives , to offer counsel and advice etc ) . |
| 26 | Every manager has a responsibility towards his subordinates ( ie to make sure they know what is expected of them , to help them set their own objectives , to help them attain their objectives , to offer counsel and advice etc ) . |
| 27 | But spreading the work out though actually extended the administration costs and not giving start and finish times that were fairly tight , so the people doing the work allowed them to make their own judgments on when it was going to be done . |
| 28 | None of this was the assertion of a separate nationality ; they were all subjects of the King of England , and relied on this for their safety , but this reassuring English presence only encouraged them to manage their own local affairs in smaller and smaller units . |
| 29 | At the East 15 Drama School I have taken audition technique sessions , which was all fine and large but I encouraged them to write their own material as well as having stock pieces to do . |
| 30 | We receive numerous calls from mothers in this situation , and have put them in touch with our consultants who have advised and helped them reach their own decisions . |