Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually ministers are formally answerable to Parliament only for discharging their own responsibilities relating to sponsored bodies ( such as in terms of broad policy and general oversight ) , while responsibility for efficiency and day-to-day matters normally rests with the organizations ' own management . |
| 2 | The first is to allow individuals to act alone in planning their own lives ; people should be allowed to capitalize part of the value of their national insurance benefits . |
| 3 | They should be encouraged to spell words for themselves , and to remember the correct spelling , eg by compiling their own list of words they have used . |
| 4 | Similarly , each and every producer , merely by setting their own marginal cost equal to the price of their output , will ensure that the marginal cost of films is twice the marginal cost of meals . |
| 5 | On royal orders , the towns were directed to see to their defences , and they had to do so by finding their own sources of finance through local effort . |
| 6 | However , in the investigators ' study of deaf mothers and their infants they have begun to see that the mothers create the crucial joint reference naturally but differently by altering their own sign language . |
| 7 | Artists ' writing on art can naturally be more practical or technical , even in defining their own aims . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Swindon celebrated promotion to the Premier League today by breaking their own club record transfer fee . |
| 9 | In our main 1979 survey , we asked people which of four statements came closest to describing their own feelings about credit . |
| 10 | In the perversion of this process that typically occurs in Burkitt 's lymphoma cells , any of three chromosomes containing the antibody genes , instead of reorganising their own DNA , exchange some DNA with chromosome 8 . |
| 11 | ‘ They tend to want everything handed on a plate to them instead of adding their own personal touch . |
| 12 | Instead of forcing their own decisions on a clearly reluctant public , they offered the public the opportunity to make the choice . |
| 13 | Instead of projecting their own imaginings onto the forms of faceless archetypes , women surrealists tapped into their subconscious by taking their own bodies as source and subject matter . |
| 14 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |
| 15 | They were looking forward to tilling their own fields in a land of plenty . |
| 16 | The swords which had been clubbed or shortened into daggers for want of space to use them , now came into more orthodox play ; and the Welsh archers above on the hills were able to select their targets again without killing their own comrades , and worked with supercilious skill as long as there was light to slay by , and an Englishman still alive . |
| 17 | He was a wanted man in the Lebanon and UNACO could n't do anything publicly without endangering their own clandestine existence . |