Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] their [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | From under the counter Franco produced the familiar battered grey hat which had been left behind in the confusion surrounding their departure for Maidstone 's apartment . |
| 2 | Given the confusion surrounding their plans for railway privatisation , perhaps the Government ought to demand the same test for all of its would-be railway experts . |
| 3 | Furthermore , it is quite possible to maintain control in such situations without the judiciary substituting their view for that of the tribunal . |
| 4 | Davide sighed ; with Tommaso Talvi he had been hungry for experience , but now , he wondered what had impelled him then to want so much , everything , travel , influence , money , work , before he had ever touched a woman ; when now he sang arias of extreme emotion , when he grieved and sobbed his passion in La Forza and Boccanegra and La Traviata , he thought of young men in the future bursting their hearts for his daughters . |
| 5 | There was quite a scrum of people at the bar giving their orders for large post-prandial brandies and ports and the commissionaire waved me through . |
| 6 | This popular attachment to church festivities persisted well into Elizabeth 's reign , the laity demonstrating their affection for them by vociferously opposing the efforts of godly ministers or town corporations to suppress them . |
| 7 | If that gap is n't narrowed , we could well see a backlash as business doing their bit for the environment lose heart at the apparent lack of consumer interest . |
| 8 | The draft contains all the essentials of her later paper ( with Gosling ) in Nature in April , which , together with one by Wilkins and his colleagues , accompanied Crick and Watson 's paper announcing their model for the structure of DNA . |
| 9 | She could hear the village children inside the church practising their singing for Sunday . |
| 10 | The association , all of whose members are required to sign a statement pledging their support for the use of animals in research , is planning to raise the issue with the Medical Research Council . |
| 11 | The two sides also issued a joint statement expressing their support for making Antarctica an international nature reserve , as first proposed by the French explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau . |
| 12 | In Saudi Arabia Baker met with foreign ministers from the six GCC countries and Egypt and Syria , who issued a joint statement expressing their appreciation for Bush 's March 6 speech and its " positive treatment " to the Palestinian question . |
| 13 | Perhaps , he concluded , in his letter terminating their correspondence for months to come , it was all just a terrible nightmare which would only be understood later ? |
| 14 | UNEMPLOYED managers have joined a pilot scheme hiring their labour for as little as £50 a week to help firms reach ‘ Investors in People ’ status . |
| 15 | IAN RUTHERFORD Taking steps : marchers take part in the demonstration in Dundee at the weekend showing their support for the 340 strikers sacked by Timex |
| 16 | EVERY day people passed by our house taking their dogs for a walk . |
| 17 | Any state whose parliament " does not feel able to approve the irrevocable fixing of its currency " could opt out by seeking " exemption " from this stage of economic union ; member states would nevertheless be asked to make a solemn ( non-binding ) declaration proclaiming their support for a " swift transition " to EMU and " their strongest intention to participate in EMU without exemption " . |