Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [prep] their [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They underlined the pain inflicted on the conquered Gauls and their courage in facing death — alone or with their families . |
| 2 | The Committee arranges the daily timetables , ensuring that all women are in the building by 8 pm. and in their bedrooms with the lights out at 10 p.m . |
| 3 | The first heavy drops splashed in coin shapes on the pavement below and in their tubs the pink flowers on the forecourt dipped and swayed . |
| 4 | Equally , it meant that rivals were judged not only personally but in their relatives too . |
| 5 | The doctor , universally known as ‘ Hubert ’ , was rotund , but it was a jolly bouncing roundness , not like the disgusting pot-bellied men who do n't know whether to wear their trousers above or below their pots . |
| 6 | The position of married women today , both generally and vis-à-vis their husbands , is very different from what it was when the equitable principles underlying Turnbull & Co. v. Duval [ 1902 ] A.C. 429 and Chaplin & Co . |
| 7 | Copiousness of detail excepted , a fundamental difference in the attitude of each traveller again lies deep within and beneath their texts when they write of Anoch and Mr McQueen . |
| 8 | All public services are paid for by individual citizens , either directly or through their taxes . |
| 9 | The other is by what you say , either to them directly or behind their backs . |
| 10 | Meanwhile professional advisers , both directly and through their managers , address changes that affect prescribing in primary care with regional health authorities , purchasers , and providers ; among these changes will be better information systems between secondary and primary care so that patients being discharged into the community have their medicines available and that ‘ at risk ’ patients are identified : pharmaceutical services must follow the patient . |
| 11 | But when it comes to ensuring that public bodies act reasonably and within their powers , it is often felt to be much less clear how the law ought to be enforced . |