Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary source of their superior financial performance is capital gains from acquiring corporate assets and activities that , under present ownership , yield less than their opportunity values , and disposing of them at their higher market values . |
| 2 | The ladies mocked him , laughing at him behind their hands . ’ |
| 3 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |
| 4 | Finally , residential workers have an important part to play not only in standing by young people , but also in communicating with them about their experiences and in helping them to explain and discover meaning in their lives . |
| 5 | Meeting their expectations means communicating with them in their own tongue . |
| 6 | One friend of mine had her mother-in-law living with them from their wedding day . |
| 7 | With his family and friends Doak has pioneered work and communication with dolphins in the wild , interacting with them on their terms , and in their environment . |
| 8 | When Pennant visited it in 1772 there were three farmers living in it with their stock and crops and at times in the summer months as many as twelve families were known to stay in it at once and it was the headquarters of those employed in the manufacture ( if kelp . |
| 9 | Anxious readers of the Daily Telegraph have been writing to me in their thousands to ask : what happens to these celebrities in the event of a hung parliament ? |
| 10 | The two eldest of the ‘ broth ’ agreed with their father , nodding and grinning at him with their mouths full . |
| 11 | Many of the mothers felt their children had been subjected to physical and emotional abuse by those caring for them during their absence , and were concerned about their lack of academic progress at school . |
| 12 | She thought about them a lot , wondering how it was going for them on their first real day on active service ; the first day , she supposed , of the rest of their lives — of the duration , at least . |
| 13 | It is extremely likely , also , that someone was waiting for them at their intended destination . |
| 14 | Beyond that lay the Germans ' barbed wire , and beyond that still the Germans , waiting for them in their trenches . |
| 15 | I heard my men going after him with their guns — and then everything went black . |
| 16 | and is strolling with her to their car |
| 17 | WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives . |
| 18 | calling to him in their stone language |
| 19 | while the material mode of existence is the primum agens this does not preclude the ideological spheres from reacting upon it in their turn . |
| 20 | However , his young family is very important to him , and he had reservations about being a selector because players might be inhibited from coming to him with their problems . |
| 21 | It is more important to study the structural relationships maintained by bureaucrats , and the potential power coming to them from their control over much of the information required for the administration of a modern state . |
| 22 | Suddenly , lo and behold , what should they see but the tiger and the jackal coming toward them with their tails tied together . |
| 23 | She was more than halfway through the set before she managed to screw up enough courage to glance down at Adam 's table , and her heart turned to cold stone as she spotted him in his usual seat , his dark eyes staring at her with their disturbing lack of expression . |
| 24 | Groups did manage to stand fast , and to fight bravely , but not for long , with the English foot descending upon them in their thousands . |
| 25 | She had summoned these people up , these ghosts would materialize , even now they were converging upon her in their finery at her bidding , each of them willing to surrender a separate self for an evening , to eat , to drink , to talk , to exchange embraces , to wait for the witching hour . |
| 26 | There is the camel rider of Blunt in the glaring light and the thorn bushes clutching at him with their crooked hands . |
| 27 | We are to read the stories of women as though they were our stories , empathizing with them in their suffering and standing with them in their courage in the face of patriarchy . |
| 28 | They had seen enough of their father drunk and there had been a terrible scene at Uncle Mick 's funeral when Denis got drunk and started arguing with them about their business practices . |
| 29 | infer the thoughts and feelings which men would have in a particular situation if they were able to assess both it and the interests arising from it in their impact on immediate action and the whole structure of society . |
| 30 | In these new communities Christians have developed their own way of listening to the Word and responding to it from their own situation . |