Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] their [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found that a lot of young couples that because you do n't go to church on a regular basis but erm , to go along with their parents ' wishes too , rather than going through a big church wedding in a church , they go to a hotel and they have the erm , wedding ceremony and the reception all in the hotel , and are married by a minister . |
| 2 | Here the marchers can drill up and down to their hearts ' content . |
| 3 | I feel that these difficulties have gone on too long for there to be a realistic prospect of change in time for these children and given their improvement whilst in foster care , where they are not brought up in their parents ' conflict , it is not in the children 's interests for them to go and live with the father and that they need to be placed in an environment with permanent substitute parents , who can meet the boys ' physical , emotional , educational and social needs . |
| 4 | ‘ First the Law Lords allowed a breach of the Homicide Act so that Tony Bland died by involuntary euthanasia , then a Select Committee on euthanasia was set up in their Lordships ' House , only to be rechristened ‘ Medical Ethics ’ . |
| 5 | When I was about II , my mother bashfully confided to me that " babies came out of their mummies ' tummies " ! |
| 6 | But he witnesses a growing determination among some tenants to fight back against their landlords ' dubious practices . |
| 7 | If they worked at all , they were late , had huge cost overruns , failed to live up to expectations , and lost out to their rivals ' more carefully thought through systems . |
| 8 | The American circuit is nowadays so tough that its players mostly have no option but to work if they want to hang on to their players ' cards . |
| 9 | They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough . |
| 10 | Spurred on by their Lordships ' initiative the Commons spent a whole day discussing television in November 1985 . |