Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [v-ing] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least sheep trot about doing their own unpleasant things well out of sight of the farmhouse kitchen window , and can be brought home by a couple of mad , slavering collies and a man with a whistle . |
| 2 | My basic feeling is that while it is reasonable to ask that that a council , as a council , as a political grouping , may make the decisions about things , it is an absolute nonsense that many , many councils — some of them are worse than others — will not let their professionals speak out on their you know from using their own expertise , their own knowledge , their own experience , and quite often that that debate , the whole debate is gagged by the fact that you 're employees of the council . |
| 3 | In Britain the majority of people aspire to owning their own home and those who do acquire a certain position in society . |
| 4 | It 's only once all these preparations have been done that the family concentrate on decorating their own home . |
| 5 | In other instances the , client company insist on using their own letter heading at least a brand identification . |
| 6 | Find some of them insist on finding their own cage and er so you do then have to er have a flexible approach . |
| 7 | Tim Albery 's production takes this weird eighteenth-century fantasy of nobles , bourgeois , and servants , all of whom finally settle for marrying their own class , and instils it with Fuselian surrealism . |
| 8 | Students feel they will gain through the poor performance of others and suffer by imparting their own knowledge to fellow students . |
| 9 | Such figures are also useful for indicating the distribution of various life chances , for instance the chance that different social groups have of owning their own home . |
| 10 | The family will have to decide on how much its teenage members will be allowed to spend , and how much discretion they have in making their own choice of clothes , records , holidays or motor cycles . |
| 11 | SEYMOUR PAPERT believes that children learn by building their own intellectual structures which they then apply to reality . |