Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other cases there were no restrictions on numbers of temporary workers or the duration of their employment , merely a requirement to inform or consult about their use . |
| 2 | When using those dramatic frames which require children to prepare and then share small group work ( e.g. the investigation , the pageant , the making of a documentary ) take the opportunity to question or comment on their use of space : " I wonder why the council official would n't look at the interviewer ? " |
| 3 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 4 | Whatever you may have read or heard about their relationship still can not prepare you for her own account . |
| 5 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 6 | Also , at the end of the day there may not be a great deal of difference between a system which requires all charges subject to exceptions to be registered as opposed to the present one which requires specified charges to be registered subject to the power of the Secretary of State to add to or delete from their number . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) To require the person whose affairs are to be investigated ( a ) to produce documents appearing to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation , or account for their absence , and ( b ) to provide an explanation for any such document . |
| 8 | ( 4 ) To require any other person ( a ) to produce documents appearing to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation , or account for their absence , and ( b ) to provide an explanation for any such document . |
| 9 | The content of the text appeals to them or fits into their experience differently . |
| 10 | In actual practice you could find an analysis that very often the things that have been repressed have not been repressed in the sense that they 've been totally submerged from your consciousness and totally forgotten without any trace , but what often happens is they 've become isolated or , or divorced from their context in your memory . |
| 11 | Our link up with adidas has certainly provided a boost to membership , with many of you taking up the option to join and receive a free headband or wristband for their trouble . |
| 12 | It is not caused by the absence of encouragement or love , nor prevented or helped by their presence . |
| 13 | Inside the territories the NGC was dismembered by Israel , its leaders expelled , imprisoned or confined to their home town . |
| 14 | In spite of the pill he kept waking and hearing the old men around him coughing or mumbling in their sleep . |
| 15 | It was not that the athletes who won in 1924 were any less determined or committed in their approach . |
| 16 | Most systems also have some method of assigning scores which rank competing hypotheses according to how well they match the constraints , or according to their probability given the evidence . |
| 17 | Many parents manage aggression by hitting or shouting at their child . |
| 18 | or worry about their performance as compared with that of |
| 19 | ‘ It is not for us to steer these people or act on their behalf ’ , said the SPD spokesman Eduard Heussen . |
| 20 | It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching . |
| 21 | They enjoyed doing the shop , and wanted others to have the pleasure of listening to it as they drive in their car , or walk with their walkman . |
| 22 | It can be a fairly minor loss , like social status or face — some people suffer agonies for fear that someone will laugh at them or sneer at their taste or intelligence , for example . |
| 23 | ‘ … one who deals with goods at the request of the person who has the actual custody of them , in the bona fide belief that the custodian is the true owner , should be excused for what he does if the act is of such a nature as would be excused if done by the authority of the person in possession , if he was a finder of the goods or entrusted with their custody … . |
| 24 | And obviously , you know , the idea of this report is to say you know , should the communists er trail behind and or stand in their way . |
| 25 | Manuscripts and correspondence of many other 20th-century Scottish writers were added to the collections , creating or adding to their representation . |
| 26 | The likely profit for most individuals is likely to be as large as a percentage point or two in the wage settlement made by their unions , or offered by their employer . |
| 27 | Although there was no dramatic change in their circumstances — no fear of eviction or drop in their standard of living — Constance felt rudderless . |
| 28 | But often we are unwilling to let the other person know what we prefer or appreciate in their attitude and behaviour . |
| 29 | For example , we have been able to show that the proportion of time that different species of primate spend feeding , resting , or moving about their home-range or territory , is correlated with body size . |
| 30 | Just as young children will cry and remonstrate or say ‘ do n't leave me ’ , so the adult may use just the same words or convey by their behaviour that this is their worry . |