Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] their " in BNC.

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1 You just say , ‘ Come on ’ — speak to them in their own language and they 'll understand you .
2 Tourism does bring economic benefits to rural areas , but it is usually considered to be a mixed blessing , even by those who depend on it for their living .
3 He says in Mexico for instance there are communities who depend on it for their livelihood and who benefit from the sale of the wood .
4 The motor industry is a key measure of our economic performance , and hundreds of thousands depend on it for their livliehoods .
5 Many horses have a lot of negative things happen to them in their lives , like Anna ; but unlike with Anna , they are usually interspersed with good things too — which fortunately have an undoing effect .
6 Edward I and Edward II had two principal courses of action open to them in their rivalry with the king of France over judicial supremacy in Aquitaine .
7 This book has been written with the objective both of making knowledge gained by research more easily accessible , and of demonstrating how in the course of providing services practitioners can use the knowledge and add to it by their own skill and commitment .
8 Nothing is more characteristic of churches than their attitude to assurance and the place they give to it in their preaching and systems of doctrine .
9 Look at it from their point of view .
10 ‘ But look at it from their point of view .
11 Look at it from their point of view .
12 So it looks as if you , people 's emotions have been tuned in such a way , that mothers look on these situations from their point of view and feel happy about it , and offspring like you look at it from their point of view and feel unhappy about it , and your emotions are the way the evolution has equipped you to deal with these problems .
13 However , some people are more affected by nerves than others so be ready to take this into account and to give people a chance to rethink or rephrase an answer , especially if it seems out of keeping with previous answers or what you know about them from their c.v .
14 The birds are excited by our garden and by the flowers that shine around us in their troughs and pots .
15 This involves selling more government securities and thereby reducing banks ' reserves when their customers pay for them from their bank accounts .
16 So the majority of golfers are best advised simply to judge the wind conditions and allow for them in their choice of club and aim .
17 In the second year , most students in the department have the opportunity to learn Portuguese , if they wish , and continue with it to their final year .
18 talk with them about their feelings on drugs and solvents
19 Alternatively , you can turn your back on nature entirely , using sculptural shapes and textures , which appeal to you in their own right .
20 However , most of his tours are accompanied by freelance lecturers , though never those who rely on it for their livelihood , who , he thinks , get stale .
21 They all just go past me with their baked beans and their fish fingers and washing powder and chocolate biscuits , and my fingers punch the right figures on the till and I do n't see them at all .
22 Our grateful thanks go to them for their support of the Association .
23 The propositions that this book addresses are that research is an important ingredient in the formation and implementation of effective policies and good practice in child care ; and that those who work in the child care services can not only incorporate research into their general experience , knowledge and skill but also contribute to it through their own careful observation and recording .
24 Yet as individuals they are believable , not only for themselves but by virtue of their involvement with other people and the opinions of their behaviour that come to us from their shipmates and their superiors .
25 We pray for them in their studies .
26 You learn about them from their words and actions , and there is no elaborate description .
27 In Pakistan , when girls go to school or college , they learn about it from their friends .
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