Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In creating their new home , they feel they have succeeded in making their own personal artistic statement . |
| 2 | Several other British towns and cities are already committed to developing their own version of this game , with all profits going to the local YMCA . |
| 3 | From 1968 , the PLO sent raiding parties into Israel from southern Lebanon and the Israelis responded by launching their own revenge raids , often against Lebanese villages . |
| 4 | They are , therefore , saved from examining their own basic assumptions about religion . |
| 5 | In order to absorb growing labour militancy , maintain and prevent turnover among their ( mobile ) key workers , and strengthen their right to manage , employers ' labour strategy in the larger enterprises turned to establishing their own training schools and internal promotion ladders . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 've just joined us , ’ the commentator 's voice droned , ‘ there 's no score in this all important match but England can be admired for holding their own , down to ten men and against a Moroccan team that 's used to the sort of heat … ’ |
| 7 | In the mid-1950s , when the private sector finance houses were increasing their facilities for private retailers , the Government withheld some of the funds the Boards requested for developing their own hire purchase schemes , thus further hobbling them against the competition . |
| 8 | In her imagination , the little flat was suddenly peopled with the ghosts of tall , glamorous London women , with names like Wanda and Melissa , who knew when to tip porters and chambermaids and would n't have dreamt of unpacking their own shopping . |
| 9 | As soon as women are coerced into adopting their own dreary , pathetic , feminist views by the opposite sex , they take offence and suggest we revert to behaving like pigs — which is , of course , what we 're best at . |
| 10 | Only obeying orders — forty years on Why are East Germans bent on punishing their former leaders ? |
| 11 | In addition , the Regional document was the resource on which most schools depended in preparing their own health education policies . |
| 12 | This is vital because most people taking up franchises are not experienced in running their own businesses . |
| 13 | Moorhens , for example , are rather poorly adapted to parasitising their own . |
| 14 | the operating priorities of a CMHT are set by manifest , but more importantly latent lines of local service policy ; without clear specifications as to the roles of team members , members will drift towards their common ground ; where team members have no actual or perceived authority to coordinate services , they will create their own service niche to fill ; where teams have little direct control over service resources , their own role will be limited to using their own personnel as resources . |
| 15 | Many companies delay payment as long as they can while maintaining an accounts section charged with chasing their own debtors for early settlement of accounts . |
| 16 | Many companies delay payment as long as they can while maintaining an accounts section charged with chasing their own debtors for early settlement of accounts . |
| 17 | It is expected some of the Manual will be suitable to be offered to the Contracts and Purchasing Working Group charged with producing their own procedures document for BS5750 . |
| 18 | All children should be supported in valuing their own dialects and in using them where they are appropriate to context and purpose , but they should also be able to use Standard English when it is necessary and helpful to do so in speaking as well as writing . |
| 19 | The documentarists were natural allies of the government , well practised in tailoring their own ideas to the demands of their sponsors , and exploring ideas about British character that it had become important to validate in order to distinguish the natives from their foes . |
| 20 | Since he believes that students may be aided in drawing their own conclusions if writers make their own value biases explicit , it is particularly important to do this . |
| 21 | They were specifically barred from introducing their own import and export restrictions without the consent of other republics , however , and from impeding the transit of goods and financial resources across their territory to or from another republic . |
| 22 | But just as black British musicians have developed the confidence to create their own sound independent of Jamaica or the USA , a new generation of black novelists is now emerging , dedicated to telling their own stories in their own style . |