Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [verb] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His first job will be to try and persuade Wigan 's promising trio of Alan Johnson , Allen Tankard and Bryan Griffiths that their futures lie with the club . |
| 3 | Three coal mines in Yorkshire which employ fifteen hundred people between them are to have their futures reviewed with the intention of closing them down . |
| 4 | The problems arise when their activities interfere with the freedom of other hill users . |
| 5 | Shore crabs , which live higher up the beach , time their activities to coincide with the high tide . |
| 6 | From Woolworths , we will hear that the Dixons management have brought their troubles on themselves , that their attempts to cope with the downturn have been lamentable and that only a new team — with a more analytical approach than the pile-it-high philosophy which did Dixons so proud when times were good — can engineer the necessary closure of small high street outlets in favour of a move to larger ones on the edge of town . |
| 7 | During the 1920s , however , the clash between these two legacies of the Great War for socialists was to become a central issue in their attempts to grapple with the problem of unemployment . |
| 8 | The reason behind SIP is , according to POSC president , Dan Turner , that ‘ for every dollar that companies spend on software , they spend $1.50 to $2.00 more to get their programmes to work with the rest of their systems . |
| 9 | Many of the dog-whelks sampled on the shore there in October 1981 had their shells encrusted with the tubes of spirorbid worms , which suggests that they had spent the summer below the tidemarks to escape the heat . |
| 10 | And , as to the bereaved , their words glowed with the grateful confidence that their own worlds were still intact . |
| 11 | They might have become becalmed there as their heads ballooned with the drink but the Duke told his piper to rouse their feet with a steady march , ‘ Murdo Mackenzie of Torridon ’ , and they headed off downstream towards Grandtully past the standing stone , the quiet watcher , while damp black shadow massed in the river-channel as though the night came from there . |
| 12 | 13 : the only occasion on which figures occupy the central panel of such a grid arrangement — in this case , dolphins with their tails entwined with the handles of a cantharus ) . |
| 13 | Such affinities are also prominent between other pavements , however : ( iii ) Two pavements from Verulamium , each of which has a square containing two dolphins with their tails entwined with the arms of cantharus ( pls. 13 and 14 ) ; ( iv ) The Blackfriars and St. Nicholas Street pavements , Leicester , ( pls. 1 and 5 ) . |
| 14 | And the onus will be on employers to ensure their offices comply with the Display Screen Regulations . |
| 15 | Small drummer boys , their lips caked with the road 's dust , beat a ragged advance as they ran . |
| 16 | The shrill tones of their voices mingled with the bawled instructions of a master mason , whose men were engaged in repairing the spire of a nearby church . |
| 17 | He put the thought from his mind for he was nearing the entrance to the river , and approaching him was a solid stream of boats , their crews fussing with the unfamiliar gear on deck . |
| 18 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 19 | Their lives lay with the capitalist world he had hated so bitterly in his own youth . |
| 20 | They sought out the most profitable lines produced in the most efficient of their plants operating with the cheapest labour available . |
| 21 | On Nov. 23 the government responded to the deteriorating situation by invoking new emergency measures requiring all householders and their guests to register with the police . |
| 22 | Publishers often make their appointments to coincide with the parties . |
| 23 | DOG owners are being urged not to allow their dogs to stray with the introduction of new legislation from Wednesday . |
| 24 | Their colours blend with the mountains . |
| 25 | Even now , some gardeners arrange the planting of their seeds to coincide with the phases of the moon . |
| 26 | Many dealers , realizing they need to offer the best possible service to their customers to compete with the bigger mail-order firms and direct sellers , are also keen to offer good standards of back-up and support . |
| 27 | The report concluded : ‘ In general the group have continued their efforts to link with the militant left-wing trade unionists on campaigns and demonstrations . |
| 28 | The company says the market is tiough … but their figures prove with the right approach houses do sell . |
| 29 | As a result , most social science experiments have been carried out by psychologists rather than by sociologists , though many of their experiments overlap with the interests of sociology . |
| 30 | We passed the Colossi of Memnon in a stony field , their shins covered with the graffiti of Greek and Roman tourists . |