Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [v-ing] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the principals were all noblemen and their ladies , each used to having their own way in their own time , organising them was almost impossible . |
| 2 | For many of us it was a huge disappointment ; a paradox , too , that a people who had proved themselves historically and geographically over and over again , who had shown a rare talent for managing the affairs of other people , should choose to chicken out when it came to managing their own . |
| 3 | Yeah they they groaned at the ones we 'd come up with but when it came to making their own up |
| 4 | In so far as they secured a satisfactory response then they succeeded in lifting their own fiscal crisis up to the central level of the state . |
| 5 | It 's all thanks to the efforts of two cinema buffs from Gloucester who for years dreamt of owning their own picture palace . |
| 6 | This proposal predictably caused considerable opposition , especially among the local authorities who countered by publishing their own proposals in a document issued by the Council of Local Education Authorities ( CLEA ) on 15 July 1981 , entitled , The Future of Higher Education in the Maintained Sector : A Consultative Paper . |
| 7 | Staff at the hospital accept that if parents felt pressured into treating their own children on the wards then they something should be done . |