Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [v-ing] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's one other point that 's important to make about the contribution that companies can make about having their own house in order , and it rather echoes some of the questions which are coming up in a , in a question session . |
| 2 | And the Tory rebels could only win by making their own party lose . |
| 3 | And the Tory rebels could only win by making their own party lose . |
| 4 | If the Israeli ‘ extremists ’ are allowed to persist in their grand design , their Palestinian counterparts will eventually succeed in re-imposing their own , with the ‘ moderates ’ , including Arafat himself , reverting to the belief that Zionism remains the all-or-nothing , demoniac creed they used to say it was . |
| 5 | It meant that women could work towards defining their own autonomous sexuality , independent of the social institutions of marriage and the family which had fixed them in oppressive relationships with men . |
| 6 | Neighbouring states , observing these forces as a potential threat to themselves as well as to the internal dissidents , will hesitate before dismantling their own forces . |
| 7 | Yet those who sail in fragile craft should hesitate before launching their own torpedoes . |
| 8 | Answer guide : This is an ideal situation to focus on how students will react to setting their own targets and having targets set for them and then relating this to a business situation . |
| 9 | It also hopes to short-circuit any notions the vendors might have of building their own OSI stacks . |