Example sentences of "at [v-ing] their [det] " in BNC.

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1 The people who possessed the skills to make metal might not need to work at producing their own food — someone else could grow food for them .
2 IT HAS become clear these past few years that London 's investment houses are rather worse at managing their own affairs than their clients ' .
3 Yet 69 per cent think they are good at managing their own finances .
4 It is likely that many of the older-generation model-based mainframe CASE tools from the likes of Anderson , Intersolve , KnowledgeWare and Seer will be looking at migrating their own products towards a client-server architecture .
5 Looking back on his earlier career , he said : ‘ Banks used to be terrible at monitoring their own costs and profitability .
6 BBC Radio One sent competition winners to Stoke-on-Trent who enjoyed a Visitor Centre tour and had a go at throwing their own pot .
7 Following pests and diseases is a section that will interest those who would like to try their hands at raising their own new plants , and perhaps even achieving fame in the process !
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