Example sentences of "[v-ing] their [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charitable work was also something that daughters could do without prejudicing their chances in the marriage market . |
| 2 | The work also voiced taboos and silenced areas in an attempt to make visible shared and common experiences , revealing their roots in the social and cultural rather than the personal . |
| 3 | Besides the more obvious areas for employment , actuaries are to be found applying their skills in the academic world , in computer development , operational research and as business consultants . |
| 4 | Many top speedway riders will be pitting their skills in the National motor cycle grass track meeting . |
| 5 | Eventually he decided to give them their marching orders , and one spring , just before the birds were due to arrive , he nailed wire netting and a large dustbin bag along the eaves to stop them building their nests in the usual place . |
| 6 | When White and Davies were building their castles in the Midlands , the game was still mostly amateur . |
| 7 | Even the decoits in the interior of Sind who had been closely following Pakistan 's victory march in their hide-outs expressed their joy by firing their weapons in the air without fear of being discovered . |
| 8 | There is no reason to suppose that in Harlingdon Ltd such an exclusion clause would not have been maintained , especially since it would hardly be likely to deter art experts from using their skills in the market place to discover masterpieces . |
| 9 | Car drivers are banned from using their cars in the capital one day each week — although many have circumvented the ban by purchasing a second car . |
| 10 | It had a painted chest of drawers and tiny wardrobe and she fell asleep enjoying their shapes in the fading light . |
| 11 | When he smiles , he looks slightly goofy , the skin pulled right over his cheeks like the face children make by sticking their fingers in the corners of their mouths . |
| 12 | Assuming Dr Powell 's right , the people of Venice will be able to continue living their lives in the manner and surroundings which have made it one of the world 's greatest cities . |
| 13 | Many step-parents feel guilty for not loving their step-children in the way they do their own . |
| 14 | The members of the Chicago School were , therefore , actively developing their theories in the process of trying to understand the problems and changes with which they were surrounded . |
| 15 | The aim of the study is to help a large civil engineering consultancy firm determine their longer term strategy for training their technicians in the use of computers as an aid to design . |
| 16 | Consideration will be given to seasonal dwellings ( such as the shielings where members of rural communities lived while tending their animals in the upland summer grazing ) and to the temporary nature of much Scottish housing in the past . |
| 17 | The qualification " as it were " in ( 1 ) suggests Pemberton 's own inner voice ; " that he could n't find it " in ( 4 ) suggests the boy 's peremptory style of speech ; something really superior in the way of a resident tutor " ( 11 ) suggests the Moreens ' way of expressing their requirements in the style of genteel private advertisements . |
| 18 | The Argentines are still ethnically the same , the population still predominantly Italian , most of them havin' their roots in the south of Italy and in Sicily . |
| 19 | These catfish have been bred in captivity in tanks containing African Rift Valley cichlids , although there have been one or two reports of them scattering their eggs in the substrate in the usual Synodontis fashion when no cichlids were present . |
| 20 | A chain of fishermen were unloading baskets of crabs from a boat moored against the quay ; beyond this others sat mending their nets in the sunshine , and further along signs extolled holidaymakers to experience the splendours of deep-sea fishing . |
| 21 | Within the USA , the states are increasingly flexing their muscles in the form of rushing through anti-takeover laws when a favoured local firm is threatened . |
| 22 | People were turning their cars in the driveway to leave the party and caught us in their headlights . |
| 23 | PREMIER LEAGUE football kicks off today and every young fan will be imitating their heroes in the nation 's parks first thing Monday morning . |
| 24 | On the other hand , they know that the price of preserving their communities in the way that they want will be too high for their own country to have to pay . |
| 25 | They do similar actions , creating a still image from their own lives — cleaning their teeth in the morning , eating a packed lunch , etc . |
| 26 | To mark the 75th anniversary of the RAF , Greenhill publishes High Flyers ( April , £15.95 ) , with contributors including Tony Benn , Frederick Forsyth , Gavin Lyall , Norman Tebbit and Brian Rix recalling their days in the force . |
| 27 | It said : ’ There will be many continental businesses today envying their competitors in the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 28 | whether that means anything to people who live in Bishop 's Stortford but I 've always lived in Chelmsford and people who wore their hat sort of at a flaunty angle on the back of their heads were always seem to wearing their hats in the Hollywood fashion . |
| 29 | And both wearing their coats in the stifling smelly heat of paraffin . |
| 30 | Its disadvantages are : ( 1 ) The regulators might stop framing their rules in the shadow of and by reference to the principles of fiduciary law . |