Example sentences of "[prep] their [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After their initial meeting they reconvened in March 1838 and lobbied parliament heavily . |
| 2 | And when I ask about their installed base they change the subject . ’ |
| 3 | And if Matey complains about their rapid disappearance you may tell her that I have developed a passion for them ! ’ |
| 4 | So when [ named defendant ] , 41 , made sexual overtures for the first time during their five-year friendship she went to a neighbour and cried rape . |
| 5 | During their bizarre courtship she was his willing puppy who came to heel when he whistled . |
| 6 | Beyond these specific issues , there was an acute sense within the Essex Federation of the general threat posed by professionalism to the WEA 's essential character : and several leading voluntary members came to feel that through their own initiative they could advance the movement more effectively than any tutor-organiser . |
| 7 | Through their pyrotechnic effect he looked unreal . |
| 8 | With some encouragement from other quarters plus careful selection of the subject for their first course it should be possible to get a number of these persons to participate . |
| 9 | In return for their hard work they get a chance to fulfil a lifetime ambition . |
| 10 | So spare a thought for their original research they speak with feeling of badly-signed junctions and of chaos over the A1 and its renaming round Tyneside . |
| 11 | Monmouth Unionists backed another fund , but for their own candidate they chose the nephew of their president , Lord Tredegar . |
| 12 | Whether it 's you or one of your kith and kin who 's been too clever for their own good you can bet your bottom dollar it 'll end in tears . |
| 13 | If they do not then deny them as possible bases for their own action they defeat the very point and purpose of the arbitration . |
| 14 | For their own safety they should stand back to back so that they have a completely free field of fire over 180 degrees each . |
| 15 | I thought the Danakil an attractive-looking people , and despite their murderous reputation they appeared to manifest a genuine friendliness . |
| 16 | It would mean returning to Wellington with a broken heart , and despite their short acquaintance she already knew it would be a long time before she would be able to evict him from her thoughts . |
| 17 | It may be appropriate for the person who maintains the cash books to do this , but because of their technical nature it may be necessary for the accountant to do this instead . |
| 18 | In one way their love had got stronger yet absurdly it was n't quite right and the outcome of their renewed affair she could n't foresee . |
| 19 | Because of their cationic nature they are attracted to plastics and cellulose products . |
| 20 | Regardless of their sacerdotal status they , too , had to provide sufficient funds for their endowment but , as they were often as wealthy and powerful as the nobility , this was no hardship . |
| 21 | As a consequence of the foregoing and in order to establish the basis of their mutual understanding they execute this document in the following terms : |
| 22 | Because of their traditional background they are easy to handle and have a notably long life : one cow produced and reared 30 calves of her own . |
| 23 | In spite of their unsystematic nature they were nevertheless very influential in constructing a particular image of political woman . |
| 24 | As often happens in such cases , a distinct style was evolved during the early stages of each painter 's development , but by the time of their full development they had diverged . |
| 25 | Orphism appealed particularly to the Germans , since like so much of their own painting it was brightly coloured and was simultaneously a more theoretical and a more popular type of art than Cubism . |
| 26 | By using words which originated in the context of their own society they imply that the institutions of that society have some kind of privileged universality . |
| 27 | Even above the sound of their own engine she could hear the drumming beat of Oscar 's souped-up motor . |
| 28 | Now even teenagers can get a direct mail delivery of their own Check it Out ! publication . |
| 29 | To the innermost heart of their own land they are known |
| 30 | When Lars Ake Wilkstrom , Chairman of the Swedish Deaf Association , addressed the BDA Congress of 1986 at Rothesay , Scotland , and told his audience of the benefits to the Swedish deaf community from the official recognition of their own language they were astonished and excited . |