Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] on their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? " |
| 2 | ‘ It is not for us to steer these people or act on their behalf ’ , said the SPD spokesman Eduard Heussen . |
| 3 | Where a judgment or order is enforceable by committal , that is where a person is required to do or abstain from doing an act , then if the order is in the form of an injunction , the court office will itself endorse a penal notice ( in new form N 77 ) , probably by attachment , rubber stamp , or printed on their form . |
| 4 | Most of them were massacred or tortured on their return . |
| 5 | As we have seen , the franchised hamburger and fast food restaurants and hotel chains stand or fall on their ability to supply a reliable , predictable , high-quality product or service in a situation which is remote from the centre and where the actual provider is quite low down the corporate hierarchy . |
| 6 | In the Yale study subjects were interviewed before and after a search , unlike previous surveys where subjects may have been asked to recall or generalize on their use of the catalogue after the event . |
| 7 | This type of question goes back for several generations , and small children are able to answer freely without any effort or strain on their part . |
| 8 | We invite you to come and eavesdrop on their story . |
| 9 | Individuals chase and pounce on their prey if a suitable opportunity occurs , but they have substantially greater chances of success if they work together . |
| 10 | If so , and depending on their condition , the set could make £40 at auction . |
| 11 | Structures and vocabulary are carefully graded so that children consolidate and build on their English in a motivating way . |
| 12 | In order to further speed and cheapen the process , inferior ingredients such as maize , rice , triticale , wheat flour and potato starch are used and helped on their way by chemicals that hasten fermentation , cut down on the yeast head in the vessels to allow more wort to be treated , and to give a lively fake head to the finished product . |
| 13 | First Day Covers — Special Issue Mint Stamps on a decorate envelope and cancelled on their date of issue . |
| 14 | Mary Benson recalls Orton Chirwa in Britain 40 years ago when he came to this country to protest against imposition of the Central African Federation : ‘ How vividly one recalls Orton , the slight , bespectacled , amused young lawyer who proved to be an articulate , passionate speaker whose wit enlivened public meetings from London to Edinburgh , while Banda , then a GP in Willesden , embarrassed organisers with his tub-thumping rhetoric — Banda the medical doctor , who was to subject Orton and Vera Chirwa to such extremes of suffering , remaining impervious to every appeal and protest on their behalf . |
| 15 | They managed to save all the sick otters and seals on their part of the island , the cost counting can come later . |
| 16 | A solitary statue , a small silver tribute to the first Nicandra , glimmered alone in the centre of the wide chimney-piece , and below it garlands and Greek ladies twined and danced on their marble plaque . |
| 17 | To an extent some such tension is inherent to the advocacy role : ‘ advocates ’ volunteer to get to know individuals using the service , set out the options for them and negotiate on their behalf with service providers . |
| 18 | Jazz switched the television off and came outside with them and they kicked a tin-can round the field a bit and then sat on some dumped oil-drums and watched the lights come on along the front and smoked a cigarette and reflected on their fate . |
| 19 | Judgement is particularly important in the initial assessment of risks and deciding on their tolerability . |
| 20 | We are not prepared to accept new trade union powers to represent individual employees and bargain on their behalf . |
| 21 | It is for the individual to decide to what extent particular items constitute CPE , and to record on their CPE return those specific items . |
| 22 | The company , as a policy , will need to establish whether small tools and minor items of plant are charged to the project at cost and credited on their return to the plant department , or whether all items of plant , including small tools , are to be charged on a similar basis to that used by plant and tool hire companies . |
| 23 | It overlooked the street , it was too hot , and the people on the other side of the wall had been watching the hotel 's cable channel late and loud so that he 'd had to go around and hammer on their door . |
| 24 | Now they feign co-operation with the adventurers in the hope of slaying them and feasting on their blood . |
| 25 | ‘ You ca n't disappoint your parents and renege on their holiday . ’ |
| 26 | They looked after their dogs , and worked on their equipment — the sledges , skis , tents . |
| 27 | Praxis says it is well down the development road of getting an ANDF installer up on another RISC , possibly the Inmos Transputer , whilst there are known to be several other key players keen to get installers up and running on their kit too ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 28 | Even they could consider themselves lucky compared with the shackled Italians torpedoed on the Arandora Star on their way to Canada , or other internees beaten and robbed on their way to Australia by British officers and NCOs on the Dunera who gave a pretty good imitation of Hitler 's Stormtroopers . |
| 29 | They exchanged what he describes , with lowered eyes , as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ , which I imagine to be a sordid discussion about the cost of one swift and surely emotionally unsatisfying and physically degrading copulation , and proceeded on their way up the now rapidly dusking street — one of them bright with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and the other already stepping into the heavy gloom of unavoidable and deserved shame or guilt . |
| 30 | They milled around and tidied him up to his satisfaction and went on their way singing : |