Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is , they say , a bit inconvenient as they have to meet their girlfriends in the Charles Hawtrey Patio at the Duck and Forceps at midday . |
| 2 | The trend for suburban dwelling was set by the wealthy , and planned suburbs appeared in order to meet their needs in the 1860s . |
| 3 | It was noted that most of the ministers from Chatichai 's own Chart Thai party retained their posts in the August reshuffle . |
| 4 | The children place their cards in the pack face downwards . |
| 5 | Food — Farming : Farmers grow their crops in the valleys . |
| 6 | Charitable work was also something that daughters could do without prejudicing their chances in the marriage market . |
| 7 | Since the 1950s the USSR has tried to persuade Latin American governments that trade with the eastern bloc should be ‘ a major element in the Latin American countries ’ drive for economic independence' , since it would enable them ‘ to gain more favourable terms with the industrially developed capitalist states , to consolidate their forces in the struggle against foreign monopolies [ and ] to expand their export ( sic ) and develop their industry and agriculture ’ ( Gladkov : 1975 , p. 11 ) . |
| 8 | Such classificatory techniques and use of social binaries seem all too obvious in police practice and undoubtedly enhance ideological barriers and present further opportunities for the powerful to encourage their agents in the police to pursue bigotry and authoritarian measures in their contests with the dispossessed . |
| 9 | They are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 10 | ‘ Marsco emphasises his own side in this way , sending two lords back to secure their fiefs in the middle of a council . |
| 11 | Under the captaincy of Tom Ingledew , the Hopewell had returned late , but safely , the first autumn of their occupancy of Everhope , laden with goods , with candles , skillets , nails , lace shirts , hats , hammers and other necessities of civilisation ( but no shoes , unfortunately ) , as well as several more of their countrymen willing to try their fortunes in the Americas . |
| 12 | The work also voiced taboos and silenced areas in an attempt to make visible shared and common experiences , revealing their roots in the social and cultural rather than the personal . |
| 13 | But he also made use of tunes from bourgeois sources — and transformed their meanings in the process . |
| 14 | FORTY million people have ‘ disappeared ’ in the icy wasteland of the Soviet Union , and British archeologist Dr Andrei Miller joins their ranks in the harrowing Lost In Siberia ( High Fliers , 15 , out now ) . |
| 15 | They said that car owners have an inherent right to repair their cars in the most economical way possible and , for that purpose , are to have access to a free market in spare parts . |
| 16 | They still build their houses in the arc-like forms , they say , of the ships which once brought them , and their funeral rites , which for their nobility are unequalled for extravagance , are intended to launch the souls of the dead back to the stars of their origins . |
| 17 | But this support evaporated once deputies had won their seats in the Majlis ( parliament ) on a pro-Rafsanjani platform . |
| 18 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 19 | They held a series of seminars and workshops to indoctrinate their members in the newly defined ways of fair trading from which they should not stray . |
| 20 | The security situation within Kashmir deteriorated during the latter half of 1989 as militant groups pursued their aims in the face of a state government unable to give any effective response . |
| 21 | He admitted last night : ‘ I ca n't wait for the players to find their feet in the Premier League . ’ |
| 22 | The obvious advantage is that they provide sack-loads of fun and laughter , and the disadvantage is that you sometimes have to wait three hours for them to find their boots in the morning and finish flossing their teeth . |
| 23 | Besides the more obvious areas for employment , actuaries are to be found applying their skills in the academic world , in computer development , operational research and as business consultants . |
| 24 | In the early stages of the war for the Caucasus the Russians concentrated their resources in the west . |
| 25 | The resistance would have to be disarmed too , but documents said to have been captured from the Khmers Rouges give details of plans to hide their troops in the jungle . |
| 26 | A scrip alternative , if offered to ordinary shareholders , will enable them to increase their shareholdings in the Company without incurring dealing costs and , to the extent that ordinary shareholders elect to take new ordinary shares instead of cash , there will be enhanced cash flow and increased liquidity to the Company . |
| 27 | A nation of cricket lovers could bury their heads in the dust of the Oval and forget all about Continental goings-on . |
| 28 | Many top speedway riders will be pitting their skills in the National motor cycle grass track meeting . |
| 29 | The ethologists , some of whom prefer to call themselves socio-biologists , endeavour to observe their subjects in the wild , in circumstances where the gadgetry of scientific apparatus will have only minimal consequences for what is going on . |
| 30 | ‘ Word came that the reivers had hidden their galleys in the sea lochan at Arivegaig . ’ |