Example sentences of "they [verb] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's better for them to see their loved ones as they remember them . ’ |
| 2 | Eight of them lived their last years in their children 's homes . |
| 3 | The growing Country opposition to William 's ministry in the Scottish Parliament consisted mainly of men who stood on a Revolution and Presbyterian foot , but whose exclusion from office exacerbated their disillusionment and allowed them to indulge their nationalist sentiments . |
| 4 | Dark gull-like seabirds , called Jaegers in North America , noted for their piratical methods of feeding , by pursuing other seabirds , especially gulls and terns , to make them disgorge their last catch . |
| 5 | Some in the colony 's business community share that view since following it in policy terms would allow them to continue their prosperous trade links across the border . |
| 6 | Although reporters gave the impression that the troupes were new to the American stage , they had in fact made their debut as far back as 1900 when George Lederer booked them to perform their original Pony Trot . |
| 7 | To enable them to conduct their private practice economically and sensibly from their viewpoint , pay beds were an imperative . |
| 8 | As I detest midges more than most things in life , leaving them to enjoy their open season for humans is no hardship either . |
| 9 | The extreme toxicity of their venom enables them to kill their main prey — eels — very rapidly and thus prevent them from wriggling free . |
| 10 | Finally , functional elites may be offered incorporation within the policy process in order to compel them to sacrifice their organizational muscle , and to undertake the state 's dirty work by disciplining dissidents within their organizations . |
| 11 | Firms are less likely to set profit-maximising prices for their products when faced with rising raw material prices and labour costs as it is more difficult for them to estimate their expected revenues and costs . |
| 12 | At the East 15 Drama School I have taken audition technique sessions , which was all fine and large but I encouraged them to write their own material as well as having stock pieces to do . |
| 13 | The reason why these had survived so long was because they required the most money spent on them — in the case of valley bottoms , to pay for initial drainage and then to maintain it — to make them yield their full potential of arable and pasture . |
| 14 | Throughout human history , disabled people have constantly confounded the low expectations of others , and how much better it would be for special educators to raise the expectations of disabled children and their families by giving them an understanding of this , by helping them to accept their disabled identities with pride , by helping them to understand their place in the world and their rights as well as giving them the practical skills to deal with these issues . |
| 15 | Politicians are wary of doing this , of course , because it forces them to accept their proper share of responsibility for the present state of anomie . |
| 16 | Two aspects need consideration : the tendency of workers to lessen their weekly amount of work at times when higher money wages or lower food prices allowed them to meet their customary expectation of comfort from fewer hours of labour , and secondly , the ability of home-based out-workers to control their own pace of work , compensating , if they so chose , for a slack early week with a bout of late-week intensity . |
| 17 | Separate households might briefly establish a privileged position within the commune and rent land from the nobility on their own behalf , but it remained extremely difficult for them to consolidate their scattered strips of land or to introduce new methods and seeds . |
| 18 | Most of them retained their medieval walls and intricate street patterns and they often served as ecclesiastical or secular centres of administration , but their major role was to act as retail , handicraft and distribution points for wide hinterlands . |
| 19 | In addition , the aerobic activity helped them to increase their metabolic rate which is , after all , what every slimmer needs . |
| 20 | Hoomey achieved his quarter of a width , Jazz did two lengths , Bean three and Gary seven , and Mr Foggerty bought them all a coke each , reminding himself to put it down on expenses , and left them to catch their various buses . |
| 21 | But as many as are thus sottish , let them enjoy their own wildness and ignorance , it is sufficient for a good man that he is conscious unto himself that he is more nobly descended , better bred and born , and more skilfully taught by the purged faculties of his own mind.2 |
| 22 | There are endless obstacles to romance , in the shape of their teenage children , ex-lovers and Charlie 's ex-wife , all of whom pitch in to make them doubt their true feelings . |
| 23 | Each interview was with a single-sex group of girls or boys , and I began by asking them to choose their favourite character or person on TV and tell me a bit about them . |
| 24 | I often set a problem and allow them to choose their own method of working . |
| 25 | As already suggested , it was paid participation in war which saved a large number of the nobility and , in certain cases , helped them improve their social status . |
| 26 | However , policies also often contain ‘ footholds ’ for those who are opposed to their general thrusts or who wish to divert them to serve their own ends . |
| 27 | In my experience , even at this early stage when the process has hardly begun , the family trying to make sense of what is happening around them focus their general distress on what they see as the church 's preoccupation with making money , rather than offering help . |
| 28 | Soon after his appointment he went to the north to meet representatives of the non-Burman races , and in effect asked them to state their own terms for participation in a Union of Burma . |
| 29 | the the some of them made their own shrouds . |
| 30 | Yet you do not have to spend very long with them to appreciate how India , then as now , has turned them into what they are , how it has brutalized them and forced them to anaesthetize their own sensibilities . |