Example sentences of "their [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When bream patrol their feeding routes they frequently display themselves at the surface . |
| 2 | Their bloody tongues they 'd have been , they 'd have been as thick as these tables by end of day . |
| 3 | Some snakes lose their tail-tips with comparative ease , under duress , but unlike their four-legged relatives they are incapable of any regrowth . |
| 4 | For their trireme warships they used the steering technique of an external oar and this copied in today 's dragon boats . |
| 5 | For a more realistic analysis of the occurrence of hot spots and their associated uplifts we need to consider the thickness of the lithosphere as well as its velocity with respect to sub-lithospheric thermal anomalies . |
| 6 | From their direct observations they absorb a model of marriage . |
| 7 | To their further questions I answered that I was too tired to speak . |
| 8 | But if people want to keep their old tyres they can . ’ |
| 9 | Particularly in their polemical passages they have a freshness and directness , such assurance that the world is now their oyster , that it is easy to forget that they did not go uncriticized . |
| 10 | In their calm faces I can find no clues |
| 11 | To hide their clear outlines they need some kind of disruptive markings . |
| 12 | The Maronites are Greek-speaking Catholics living in Turkish-held territory , and as if that were not enough of a mixture , in order to maintain links with their Lebanese roots they hold their church services in Arabic . |
| 13 | People keep writing letters to the Mercury saying how can we afford to spend time and money debating this , well they can afford the time and the money employing out of work newsreaders to produce videos and writers and photographers to produce their glossy magazines , their glossy leaflets I did n't need the R S P C A or the League to tell me that er , the fox photo , this fox photo was a fake , I mean that 's obvious to anybody I did n't need them to tell me that the video was suspect , that too is obvious . |
| 14 | Appeals will surely ensue but in the meantime we may well sympathise with those Soprintendenze who feel tempted to put all restoration work on hold in the fear that in carrying out their proper duties they may find themselves being sentenced as criminals . |
| 15 | Mr Manson added that society did not seem to realise that alcohol and drugs caused the brain to malfunction and permit ‘ those who take them to do acts , even murder , which in their sane moments they would be horrified even to contemplate ’ . |
| 16 | Mike Benton 's ideas are reminiscent of those of Tony Swain and Gillian Cooper-Driver who proposed that dinosaurs became extinct through their dietary requirements They suggested that the development of alkaloidal synthesis of cyanogenic glycoside precursors in the early angiosperms made them unpalatable to the dinosaurs , effectively starving them into extinction . |
| 17 | Having received many reports of disappointment with West Indian hotels that do n't live up to their high prices we would be interested to know of any that combine the following virtues : immediate access to unpolluted sea ; the possibility of snorkelling and windsurfing ; freedom from background music ; cotton sheets , with no polyester mixture ; edible food , and preferably , cottage-style accommodation . |
| 18 | To separate their individual styles they split those evenings into consecutive 1520 minute slots and they retain that format for the tour . |
| 19 | It bit at their numb bodies they did not resist |
| 20 | Even the process of normal development required something of self-sacrifice about it , as women learned that instead of their early pleasures they must be content with the possibility of having a child . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off . |
| 22 | In the North-East there are three music schools and although they do not boast as many pupils as their Japanese counterparts they are growing , with over 300 pupils enrolled . |
| 23 | Having borrowed money to maintain their vast estates they found that the estates were too inefficient to generate the income to pay back the loans . |
| 24 | To give some idea of their domestic arrangements we are shown , not only a superb model of a typical Celtic settlement , but also a full-scale thatched Celtic Hut . |
| 25 | Their aerial photographs he subjected to destructive scrutiny , the light crop lines they detected under the unbroken fields he dated several centuries later than the sacking of Aurae Phiala , the dark crop marks emerging so strongly in contrast he refused to consider as early Roman military lines , but set well back into pre-Roman settlement . |
| 26 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
| 27 | In their later writings they had been forced to acknowledge , in the light of much critical evidence , that their biologically determined criminal was only one of a variety of types : their theory had become eclectic and multi-factorial . |
| 28 | In their broadest terms they refer to the whole issue of the supply of labour : do taxes affect the choice of occupation , the individual 's drive for promotion , the number of hours worked , the rate of productivity , labour mobility , the decision to retire from work , to emigrate , and so on ? |
| 29 | It bit into their blank brains they hardly knew |
| 30 | In addition to their genetic differences they will each have a different nurturing experience within their family , for example being the first born and only child is different from being the second or third child of parents already used to dealing with small babies and the noise , bustle and demands of older siblings . |