Example sentences of "[vb -s] their [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | FORTY million people have ‘ disappeared ’ in the icy wasteland of the Soviet Union , and British archeologist Dr Andrei Miller joins their ranks in the harrowing Lost In Siberia ( High Fliers , 15 , out now ) . |
| 2 | The prime minister then selects the members of his or her cabinet and other government ministers and submits their names to the monarch who , by convention , does not deny the prime minister 's choice . |
| 3 | Here , Miller describes their encounters in the months leading up to Ali 's 50th birthday |
| 4 | Another important difference between exogenous and indigenous firms concerns their linkages with the local economy . |
| 5 | Intrigued by the means of domestic entrance — ‘ often by a flight of steps , which reaches up to the second story , the floor which is level with the ground being entered only by stairs descending within the house , — lie compares their dwellings with the architecture of England , and inevitably , when he draws such comparisons , a little bee flies into his bonnet . |
| 6 | Knowing an author 's homosexuality makes that decoding far easier ( if at the same time rather less triumphant there 's an undeniable pleasure in finding out that a favourite writer , actor or director you have admired for years turns out to be gay , as you always privately hoped and ‘ knew ’ ) but it returns us once again to the problem of biography , the danger of regressing to a simplistic reading of texts which simply locates their meanings in the author 's life story . |
| 7 | Following its independence from South Africa in March 1990 , Namibia established a Ministry of Information and Broadcasting with the aim of ensuring that the country 's media ‘ are free and able to fulfil their traditional roles of public enlightenment , education and entertainment , and also to imbue the Namibian people with a goal that reflects their aspirations towards the building of a healthy democracy ’ . |
| 8 | Following its independence from South Africa in March 1990 , Namibia established a Ministry of Information and Broadcasting with the aim of ensuring that the country 's media ‘ are free and able to fulfil their traditional roles of public enlightenment , education and entertainment , and also to imbue the Namibian people with a goal that reflects their aspirations towards the building of a healthy democracy ’ . |
| 9 | This problem is best approached by a distribution of money to departments which reflects their needs within the framework of meeting the overall school aims . |
| 10 | It could be that , with so much self-parody and saltiness riddling their core genre , ‘ Naive ’ presents their seeds for the future , displaying some key maverick black hearts leading noise into different pastures . |
| 11 | One day the opportunity to escape presents itself and the book follows their adventures on the journey along Regent 's canal and across the sea to the forests , not of their imagined Africa , but of Borneo or Sumatra , home to the Orang Utan . |
| 12 | after discussion with their Course Tutor they are able to select a programme of units which satisfies their needs from the elective programme . |
| 13 | just off hanging over the welly boots when somebody puts their feet in the welly boots they get a bit of shock ! |
| 14 | A more recent collection , which reflects some of the same debates and also considers their implications for the economic geography of the UK is The Geography of De-Industrialisation edited by Ron Martin and Bob Rowthorn ( London and Basingstoke , Macmillan ; 1986 ) . |
| 15 | Blastoids are sometimes abundant fossils in rocks ( usually limestone ) of Silurian to early Permian age , and their perfect , compact pentameral symmetry makes their calices among the most attractive of fossils . |
| 16 | This leaves their challengers with the uphill task of performing early to a half empty venue , or , in the case of SENSER , consigned to the early morning graveyard shift , by which time most of the audience has ( literally ) crashed out . |
| 17 | Table 5.5 summarises their views at the time of their first interview . |
| 18 | such as solos or pas de deux in which dancers portray the character each represents by depicting mood , emotion and action , e.g. again in The Sleeping Beauty , the Four Princes express their admiration for Aurora and she returns their compliments in the Rose Adage . |