Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] their [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eminent female psychologists in O'Connell and Russo 's ( 1983 ) study who had married , had all delayed their career development in favour of that of their husbands . |
| 2 | The ADT London Marathon organisers and British Rail have agreed that runners need only show their race number . |
| 3 | Among the big gainers , Tonka 's 16.5% 1997 bond , Macy 's 14.5% 1998 , Southland 's 14.5% 1995 and RJR Nabisco 's 17% 2007 have all seen their price rise by half or more this year . |
| 4 | Grandparents do n't only give their grandchildren time . |
| 5 | Farmers need only give their NFU membership number to get 15 minutes of free advice by phoning 0993 706999 which will be available Monday to Friday from 9am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm . |
| 6 | ‘ Because if they do , it 's possible they might discover that they 've only got their zombi gas for about another twenty minutes . |
| 7 | In severe winters this has certainly improved the chance of survival of many common birds and has perhaps raised their winter survival rate generally . |
| 8 | But urban guerrillas do n't kidnap distinguished foreigners only to keep their exploit secret , hijackers can hardly help becoming news on the instant , and here there has been profound silence . |
| 9 | To participate , senior citizens in Northern Ireland aged 65-plus need only produce their concession fare pass , as issued by Ulsterbus , to receive their discount voucher booklet from any main Northern Ireland Railway station or Ulsterbus office when buying their rail or bus ticket . |
| 10 | This taught us how to tell what a person is feeling by merely observing their body language and facial mannerisms . |
| 11 | That fact alone put their election performance under even closer scrutiny than usual , from all sides — and they knew it . |
| 12 | These were the copper sheathing which greatly reduced the fouling of their bottoms by weeds and the loss of speed this entailed ; and the carronade which greatly increased their fighting power . |
| 13 | Just as seeds provide a rich feast to those that have the equipment to deal with them , so do their animal equivalent , eggs . |
| 14 | Not only does their body temperature not regulate efficiently , but they are not aware that they are very cold or very hot . |
| 15 | How depressed those tough pioneers would be to see their descendants , who had not only lost their pioneer spirit , but the ability to walk ! |
| 16 | It seemed obvious that the best form of organization for overseas trade was the one that was used first in exporting wool and then by the cloth traders , who still accounted for three-quarters of English exports in the first half of the century : all the merchants involved would sell together at a ‘ staple ’ town , usually in Belgium or the Netherlands , where they could avoid competing with each other and so increase their bargaining strength . |
| 17 | Our invaluable handbook , which otherwise retails at around £100 is included in membership — and members invariably find that knowledge gained via membership , be it from the Handbook , a seminar or fellow members , allows them annually to recover their membership subscription . |
| 18 | Others still In past wounds so haunt their waking world , they are continually finding emotional parallels in everyday experience , their anger and bitterness becoming recognisable as a definite and unattractive personality characteristic . |
| 19 | This so enraged their mother Dilga that she drowned all the Cat-people in a river of milk and reincarnated her sons , one as a giant water-snake , the other as a placid white cloud . |
| 20 | A spokesman said : ‘ Cardholders should only offer their account number to companies when they themselves have initiated the call . |
| 21 | A spokesman said : ‘ Cardholders should only offer their account number to companies when they themselves have initiated the call . |
| 22 | By concentrating on that , they 've not only improved their service level remarkably but they 've also reduced their stock levels at a number of warehousing points and reduced their cost structure . ’ |
| 23 | The current area may not appear attractive to staff , possibly because of high house prices , and so firms may want to move to help their recruitment or perhaps reduce their staff turnover levels . |
| 24 | On the contrary it would merely increase their anxiety level , even if there was nothing to worry about . |
| 25 | Lotus say they have greatly improved their Mermaid pond pumps while Cyprio 's UVC s can be used on ponds or as anti bacterial systems on tanks . |
| 26 | ‘ They have all learnt their three-times table . |
| 27 | THE REICHMANNS HAD already turned their attention south of the border when Edward Minskoff , a sophisticated New Yorker , called Paul Reichmann one day in the spring of 1976 . |
| 28 | And they can just stick their finger finger in the earth . |
| 29 | BRITAIN 'S Nigel Short and Russia 's Gary Kasparov finally begin their £1.6m battle for the world crown in London on Tuesday . |
| 30 | I soon developed their reflexive habit of checking behind whenever someone walked towards me in a fairly empty street . |