Example sentences of "[verb] to [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several other British towns and cities are already committed to developing their own version of this game , with all profits going to the local YMCA . |
| 2 | As the principals were all noblemen and their ladies , each used to having their own way in their own time , organising them was almost impossible . |
| 3 | In order to absorb growing labour militancy , maintain and prevent turnover among their ( mobile ) key workers , and strengthen their right to manage , employers ' labour strategy in the larger enterprises turned to establishing their own training schools and internal promotion ladders . |
| 4 | For many of us it was a huge disappointment ; a paradox , too , that a people who had proved themselves historically and geographically over and over again , who had shown a rare talent for managing the affairs of other people , should choose to chicken out when it came to managing their own . |
| 5 | Yeah they they groaned at the ones we 'd come up with but when it came to making their own up |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ Athelstan replied , ‘ we should be looking for a man or woman with no background , someone who has suddenly appeared on the scene , but everyone we have talked to has their own little niche . ’ |
| 7 | In Britain the majority of people aspire to owning their own home and those who do acquire a certain position in society . |
| 8 | Answer guide : This is an ideal situation to focus on how students will react to setting their own targets and having targets set for them and then relating this to a business situation . |
| 9 | Moorhens , for example , are rather poorly adapted to parasitising their own . |
| 10 | the operating priorities of a CMHT are set by manifest , but more importantly latent lines of local service policy ; without clear specifications as to the roles of team members , members will drift towards their common ground ; where team members have no actual or perceived authority to coordinate services , they will create their own service niche to fill ; where teams have little direct control over service resources , their own role will be limited to using their own personnel as resources . |
| 11 | Once here , the racism they faced in employment often forced them to turn to starting their own business as a means of livelihood . |
| 12 | But just as black British musicians have developed the confidence to create their own sound independent of Jamaica or the USA , a new generation of black novelists is now emerging , dedicated to telling their own stories in their own style . |
| 13 | ‘ Most people in the health service suffer from the feeling there are far too many layers of authority above them and far too many constraints about what people can do when it comes to running their own unit better . |
| 14 | Composers are notoriously fickle when it comes to performing their own music , but with a few exceptions ( the first part of the Diptyque being the most obvious , where the innumerable pauses , rallentandos and general changes of speed , not to mention more than a few smudges and slips , have no basis in the printed score ) Messiaen not only fulfils his own written requirements , but does so with utter conviction and persuasiveness . |
| 15 | Our Royals , I am afraid , are arrogant , uncharitable , greedy and downright un-Christian when it comes to preserving their own privileges and image . |