Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Granny ( or Grandpa ) comes to live with the family in old age , it will be to everyone 's advantage to encourage the close bond between them and the children , since it always contributes much to their enjoyment of life , and consequently to the happiness of the whole household . |
| 2 | When she is doing anything with children , she always squats down to their level , touches them and listens to them , and the response she gets in just a few moments with each is quite extraordinary . |
| 3 | They have links with the state government in Albany as well as City Hall , which adds hugely to their clout . |
| 4 | The chairman of the Guardian and Manchester Evening News announced in his 1986 annual report that ‘ The Times now has a cost structure much lower than our own … we must get our own costs down to their level as soon as possible ’ . |
| 5 | Thousands of different kinds of rocks have been described and separately named , but when one gets down to their chemistry , one finds that they all have a great deal in common . |
| 6 | And that 's important to us because we can give erm people who are responsible for a particular department full and immediate access to the data which relates only to their department and not the wider organization . |
| 7 | This relates directly to their ancestry ; these short-legged hounds were bred to pursue their quarry by scent over considerable distances . |
| 8 | It is too much work : or , more precisely , too much time spent by too many people on work of a kind which contributes insufficiently to their fulfilment and which may tend to diminish their capacity for fulfilling themselves , too much soul-destroying toil or boredom . |
| 9 | If , at Z Press , the editors at Layer 111 find and develop manuscripts into books with market potential , it is their general editor at Layer IV who fits those books into the press 's overall list , who thinks ahead to their position on next year 's list and later allocates resources to their production and marketing , and who makes projections about the publishing and book-buying trends of the next two to five years . |
| 10 | We first see Ajax and Thersites trading metaphors of boils and scabs ; Achilles enters in verse ( II.i.55f. ) , but soon comes down to their level . |
| 11 | Perhaps under Italian influence Campra lent other little used keys symbolic associations too : Charpentier 's description of B minor and E major respectively as ‘ lonely and melancholic ’ and ‘ quarrelsome and clamorous ’ comes close to their ethos in Campra 's music . |
| 12 | Luckily , fashion often comes round to their point of view again — at which point , editors sitting in the front row start writing ‘ renaissance ’ in their note-books . |