Example sentences of "about their [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all , children were likely to protest about their parents ' departure . |
| 2 | Although it was 12 years ago , both vividly remember the day they learned about their parents ' seperation . |
| 3 | Glancing up , she caught Ross 's nod and warm smile of approval at the efforts she was making to reassure Emma and Sophie about their parents ' condition . |
| 4 | The others have been very positive about the programme , stating that they preferred to know about their sons ' condition from an early stage . |
| 5 | All seven families with a transient result were interviewed to gain their perspective of the programme and ensure they had no lingering doubts about their sons ' health . |
| 6 | Yet even peasants , bounded through their lives mostly by their immediate vicinity , could sometimes travel further afield , whether pursuing a legal claim , like the Mitry group , or about their lords ' business , like the men of St-Germain-des- Prés who owned transport-services between Anjou and the Paris neighbourhood . |
| 7 | Instructors can be mistaken about their students ' ability to control the initial part properly if one or two launches go well . |
| 8 | Hospital doctors , for example , are still expected to have the last word about their patients ' discharge dates , or about their transfer to other institutions , or to decide whether they should be offered facilities such as regular readmission to relieve carers . |
| 9 | Similarly farmers are more prepared to be indulgent about their employees ' working hours as long as the necessary tasks are carried out efficiently . |
| 10 | But ten times as many children of divorce live with their mothers as with their fathers ; more than eighty-five per cent of divorces , granted on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour , are given to wives complaining about their husbands ' conduct , and the number of wives made to pay off their ex-husbands is still tiny . |
| 11 | Nor can they help forming snapshot impressions of their colleagues in action — the way they speak to pupils , the degree of calmness or rowdiness they seem to achieve in their lessons and the way they write about their pupils ' work in formal reports . |
| 12 | In the 1950s , the Boards found the Conservative Government increasingly concerned about their shops ' competition with the private sector of electrical retailing . |