Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is dealt with in detail here because visitors in search of out of the way spots are almost certain to pass through it on their way to Appenzell , or even to break their journey here . |
| 2 | Finally , may I ask all hire car users to write to me with their comments on the use of a mobile phone . |
| 3 | Even when people appear willing to talk to us about their difficulties , it is not always the real problems that they will initially present . |
| 4 | I suggest that the figures you 've got before you are not terribly , terribly useful , and that you do invite domiciliary health to come back to you for three months to talk to you about their work in terms of the visits , the visits that they do . |
| 5 | Farmers needed to identify likely emergency situations on their farms and ensure that there was somebody able to cover for them in their absence . |
| 6 | Relatives always made disparaging remarks about me ‘ breaking the chain' of five boys , but consoled my parents that they at least had a girl to look after them in their old age . |
| 7 | The disasters that befell his army paradoxically heightened his personal charisma : even the barons of Outremer continued to look on him as their one potential saviour . |
| 8 | When Fred came back to the table , the two old friends suddenly fused and started to laugh , while Daisy had to wait upon them as their natural audience . |
| 9 | Fears of a ‘ credit crunch ’ have prompted policy changes at the Federal Reserve in recent months : the Fed has cut its benchmark interest rate four times and , a bolder move , has reduced the amount of reserves that banks are obliged to hold with it against their customers ' deposits . |
| 10 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |
| 11 | 536 throw valuable light on the processes by which the authority of the judges evolved in questions relating to rights of audience and the fitness of advocates to plead before them in their courts . |
| 12 | He said he had been invited to call upon them at their new house . |
| 13 | And it was early enough for Britain 's arms makers to refer to it in their autumn armaments promotions . |
| 14 | She was always careful not to think about him during their estrangements but now , with him so near in time , there was a permissible pleasure in doing so . |
| 15 | I paint the words and leave others to think about them in their own hearts . ’ |
| 16 | There is at least one instance of an aedile of a pagus , although we might suspect that the praefectus pagi of the Gallic Epotes lies outside the normal run of local government officials , though it must be remembered that magistrates could appoint prefects to act for them in their absence . |
| 17 | When they are asked to sign a piece of paper they moan and groan , and get paranoid about people trying to peep at them in their luxury . |