Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Publishers interested in having their titles included in the catalogue should contact Planning and Environmental Books , , ( ) . |
| 2 | Other party leaders , such as the former Communist Herbert Wehner , agreed change was needed , and in November 1959 their views triumphed in the Bad Godesberg programme , drawn up at a special party meeting . |
| 3 | Thus , for example , in the National Health Service groups such as the consultants , junior doctors , administrators , nursing staff , GPs and so on , will all be striving to influence the organisation and to get their views accepted by the organisation . |
| 4 | Therefore it would also seem possible to learn a functional sign language without a positive desire to become deaf on the part of the hearing learner ; nevertheless , it has been the case in the past that those who have learned sign language have often been cast in the integrative mould and have had their views devalued by the hearing community because of it . |
| 5 | They 've made their views known to the pastor , who 's also chairman of the playgroup . |
| 6 | ‘ I appeal to the people of Darlington to make their views known to the council , ’ he added . |
| 7 | Perhaps they do not conclude this ; if so , why do n't they make their views known to the Secretary of State for Scotland before he approves this scheme ? |
| 8 | More than anything , though , the May 1990 elections provided voters with an opportunity to make their views known in the relative calm of the ballot box , and it was an opportunity they took in unprecedented numbers . |
| 9 | An exporter would approach the UK bank concerned for details and then apply to have their contracts financed through the line of credit . |
| 10 | Tuna are sometimes landed when they try to swim through holes in fishing nets and get their teeth caught in the mesh ; once trapped in this way , they can be dragged on to the beach with the net . |
| 11 | Where their profits were associated with service to the Empire , their operations reverted to the nineteenth century ‘ tradition ’ of patriotic capitalism . |
| 12 | The buyout team have mortgaged their possessions to pay for the company . |
| 13 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 14 | For a gentle corrective one could do worse than go back to H.L. Mencken who opined that Alexander Graham Bell — the progenitor of the institution in which Penzias holds sway — and Thomas Alva Edison had done more than any of their contemporaries to add to the sum of life 's damned nuisances . |
| 15 | There were fish lying damply in old wooden crates , their scales gleaming with the sickly colours of an oil stain , then rows of chickens with their throats cut , feathers clinging to the legs , and the sawdust was stained with blood and flies , and she began to run , frantic to reach the air outside and breathe . |
| 16 | The effect of this , quite naturally , is for even the most conscientious of organisations not to bring out modifications or amendments and to keep their fingers crossed in the hope that their suspicions of a failure or shortcoming will prove to be unsubstantiated . |
| 17 | Then the hands of the stocking-masked men were on her , their fingers digging into the tender flesh of her arms . |
| 18 | Fear of unemployment is probably doing more than anything to hold back consumers from increasing their spending , and that is compounded by their desire to pay down debt after getting their fingers burned in the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s . |
| 19 | Their fingers skim on the silk |
| 20 | ‘ Tasso keeps them apart , though their fingers meet on the pillows of his pastoral . |
| 21 | It was as if they were really desperate and they knickers round their ankles running into the toilet ! |
| 22 | Corporal punishment was abolished in state schools in the United Kingdom in 1987 after two Scottish mothers , Grace Campbell and Jane Cossans , had their cases upheld by the court . |
| 23 | It gave individuals whose petitions were upheld by the European Commission on Human Rights the automatic right to have their cases reviewed by the Court ( this being hitherto the prerogative of either the commission or the state concerned ) ; it would enter into force once ratified by 10 states . |
| 24 | That clearly underlines the need for a change in the appeal court system to allow people to have their cases brought before the court without the necessity of a five-year campaign by friends and families . |
| 25 | The danger is that sometimes people who observe focus groups or read the reports on their discussions fall into the trap of saying that ‘ the majority ’ of members favoured a certain viewpoint , when this simply means five out of eight selected individuals . |
| 26 | Behind him were a crowd of men and horses ; Hearthwares in full armour , their breaths steaming in the coolness of the morning , Myrcans standing impassively , indifferent to the cold but nodding to Isay as he approached , and a pair of pack mules trying to bite each other 's manes . |
| 27 | Travel and feature writers from all over the world had stayed in Crystal Springs , going back to their desks to write for the Most part glowing reports . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , plenty of new flats are being built and coming on to the market : developers have rushed to get their projects completed in the hope of selling before demand dried up . |
| 29 | Two of the women had their throats slit after the rapes , ’ the report states.Victims have been assaulted in different situations , said Ms Hampson . |
| 30 | But the fire in them burnt like a bud of blue flame , swelling , growing , until they felt it would flame into a shower of stars , reaching into the velvet darkness , the little frail wobbly lights of their bikes signalling to the lights of the travelling plane , their mounts leaping up over humps , over rises in the road , up and away into the intoxicating night . |