Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] their [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman and three children were now laughing and I was pleased about that , as they had looked scared stiff when I entered their house a few moments before . |
| 2 | One unfortunate decided to fill the reception area in Carno with tropical plants , a major gaffe as anyone who knew Laura realized ; she found their artificiality an affront . |
| 3 | ‘ You tied them with a line and taped Mrs Bayles mouth so she could not speak , threatened them with weapons and left them tied while you ransacked their home a truly terrifying experience for them . ’ |
| 4 | Have you ever had to tell your family you ended their holiday a week early ? |
| 5 | Had we taken their advice the nurses would never have received what has proved for them their biggest breakthrough since the war . |
| 6 | But as they made their getaway the gang crashed into a lorry , and then panicked hijacking four cars at gunpoint , and opening fire on police . |
| 7 | They found their spaceship a few minutes later , and soon they were ready to leave the planet . |
| 8 | They found their bedroom the hardest room to decorate in the new style . |
| 9 | They paid their rent every Friday ( the money was put straight into a jar for Oreste 's journey ) and always enquired if there was any way in which they could be of use to their landlady in her circumstances . |
| 10 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 11 | Parents , however , should remember that if they give their child an investment that produces over £5 annual income , it will usually be taxed as their own unless the child is over 18 or married . |
| 12 | Parents , however , should remember that if they give their child an investment that produces over £5 annual income , it will usually be taxed as their own unless the child is over 18 or married . |
| 13 | Parents , however , should remember that if they give their child an investment that produces over £5 annual income , it will usually be taxed as their own unless the child is over 18 or married . |
| 14 | Between them they give their mother the support she needs since their father has had a stroke . |
| 15 | They named their fund the " loaves and fishes " ! |
| 16 | Even as they gathered their evidence the defence committee members knew they had no power , only the hope of influence . |
| 17 | AN ICY reception awaited the Soviet Union touring side at Aspatria last night , but they did their reputation no harm by providing a stern test . |
| 18 | They do their life-work the more successfully and enjoyably because , living together , they encourage , support and cross-fertilise each other . |
| 19 | They earned their promotion the hard way . |
| 20 | He watched the girl for a minute before calling to her to bring their heading a little to port . |
| 21 | It is no accident that certain adjectives which can appear as postnominal , but not prenominal , attributives do also appear in predicative position , while , on the other hand , certain adjectives which only occur prenominally can not stand as predicatives : ( 33 ) the robber was asleep not noticing the robber asleep , they missed their revenge the asleep robber ( 34 ) their proposals are sheer lunacy their lunacy is sheer lunacy sheer of this sort is unsurprising |
| 22 | as if he sensed their homage the Kha-Khan elect waved a hand in dismissal . |