Example sentences of "their [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You could n't supply the children of Wales with a toothbrush or tube of toothpaste to promote their oral health with that budget , ’ he declared . |
| 2 | By the end of the month Israeli leaders were reported effectively to have withdrawn their controversial request for some US$10,000 million in loan guarantees to finance immigrant absorbtion programmes , in the face of persistent US demands linking the loans with a cessation of settlement construction in the occupied territories . |
| 3 | CHANNEL 4 and independent programme makers Box Productions were yesterday jointly fined £75,000 over their controversial documentary on Loyalist murder squads in Ulster . |
| 4 | THE Welsh Office has come under attack for refusing to hold a public meeting into their controversial choice for a bypass around an Anglesey village . |
| 5 | DEREK ROBINS on the multi-talented Mary Whitehouse Experience the comedians who cause sides to split and tempers to rise THE shocking stars of the BBC2 comedy show The Mary Whitehouse experience have been forced to water down their controversial material for TV viewers . |
| 6 | DARLINGTON councillors are to debate their controversial policy of shunning links with South Africa . |
| 7 | Queues formed hours before doors opened as parents took their children to see their 12-year-old hero in action . |
| 8 | The warmth of his body , his cradling arms , were still having their softening effect on her physically , so she tried even harder to whip up her rage and indignation . |
| 9 | Beckett 's characters ‘ begin and end their fictional journey at the same place , in the same condition , and without having learned , discovered , or acquired the least knowledge about themselves and the world in which they exist ’ ( Federman 1965 : 4 ) . |
| 10 | In conjunction with J. P. Manning Prentice , who was then director of the British Astronomical Association 's meteor section , Alcock watched as particles of dust from space dashed at random to their fiery death in the atmosphere , appearing as shooting stars . |
| 11 | Cyclical industries — those in which cash flow bounces up and down in booms and slumps — lowered their debt-service ratio during the 1980s , from 20% in 1982 to around 13% by 1988 . |
| 12 | This average conceals an important fact : many of the industries that tend to suffer most during recessions ( suppliers of consumer durables , transport and communications , for example ) have actually cut their debt-service burden since 1980 ; the biggest increases in debt service have been taken on by relatively stable industries ( such as producers of services and consumer non-durables ) . |
| 13 | Diana and Mary lost their usual cheerfulness as the moment for leaving their home and their brother came closer . |
| 14 | In such a situation members of congress may also be prepared to forego their usual concern with constitutional niceties in the interest of allowing the president to cope with an international or domestic crisis . |
| 15 | He whistled mechanically at the back view of a girl waiting to cross the intersection , though of late girls seemed to have lacked their usual charm for him . |
| 16 | As it was not yet open , she sat on the step beside a broken box of rotting plums and watched the market traders going about their business : they all seemed to be in their usual mood of precarious good humour which could splinter at any moment into invective and menacing gesture . |
| 17 | Guanine imino protons appear further upfield from their usual position in Watson-Crick G.C base pairs in a chemical shift region ( 10.5–12p.p.m. ) similar to that observed for G imino protons hydrogen-bonded to carbonyl groups , but also for those that are not hydrogen-bonded . |
| 18 | ‘ Just carry on with their usual kind of enquiries : forensic tests , house-to-house visits , appeals for witnesses . |
| 19 | But instead of such intensive interest , they received their usual level of medical care from their own personal physicians , with an annual visit to the project clinics to have their progress monitored . |
| 20 | London Contemporary Dance Theatre have begun touring this autumn with their usual selection of excellently mixed bills . |
| 21 | Quite differently from the shepherd chasing nymphs convention of Marlowe 's poem , in ‘ The Garden ’ the colours of ‘ red ’ and ‘ white ’ are toppled from their usual pedestal by the green of plants and nature ’ . |
| 22 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 23 | The balance of the instruments was ideal and the orchestra accompanied with their usual panache under the direction of Alfred Walter . |
| 24 | In Melody Maker The Stud Brothers made their usual attack on Gedge . |
| 25 | They took that into account when building their third house , in a small development off a country lane on the Highgate side of Kenwood , but stuck to their usual system of Geoffrey working out the designs with a lot of input from Elaine . |
| 26 | People might simply be responding , albeit unconsciously , in a manner consistent with their usual direction of eye movements . |
| 27 | They had been having their usual discussion about food . |
| 28 | That victory of ours was the first to which they gave less than their usual measure of approval . |
| 29 | They had descended to their usual shouting of verbal abuse . |
| 30 | Each trainee is paid their usual benefit plus £10 a week . |