Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The first is a request for the pleasure of their company while the second implies slight patronage , and highlights their inability to go out on their own and their need now to be ‘ taken ’ . |
2 | The Youngest Son would stay with us in Al Ain , catching up on his studies in order to graduate with his class from secondary school , but it would be a week before the Sheikh and his elder sons drew up in their big Mercedes and brought that filling of the house that always comes when men are at home , the heavy laughter , the smell of pipe smoke , screeches of excitement from the children as they are tossed high in the air . |
3 | Every social worker has a responsibility to stand up for their own profession , to accept criticism humbly when it is due , and to explain why things are done in certain ways . |
4 | Social workers in Orkney , it seems , even ignored the guidelines laid down by their own association . |
5 | Jean : She 's told some kids to go back to their own country . |
6 | She smiled in triumph , making her wide-set green eyes squeeze back into their thick black fringe of lashes . |
7 | When they began to move the flow of blood came back to their stiffened limbs and they felt better . |
8 | Warrington Town bid to bounce back after their first defeat in eight games in midweek when they take on Alfreton Town in the HFS First Division at Cantilever Park . |
9 | ITALY , weakened by injuries and suspension , could face a torrid time in tonight 's World Cup qualifier against a Portuguese side fired up for their first home match in the series . |
10 | THE STONE ROSES/SILVERTONE court case kicked off in earnest last week , when a legal representative for the label suggested that the Manchester four-piece band acted childishly in their attempt to bow out of their contractual obligations . |
11 | Manchester United fail to win the Championship for 25 years in a row , but attract the biggest crowds of all ; Everton supporters turn up in their thousands week after week , ignoring the better , winning team that plays a matter of yards away ; the absence of Gascoigne and Lineker will not deter the Tottenham faithful . |
12 | Last night , when the 5ft 9in Alton Byrd took a rest the 6ft 8in Alan Cunningham took over as their playmaking guard . |
13 | Graham Bowstead , Bob Hodgson and Ray Cargill , all Englishmen , had been working for William Lee in London but were on the look out for opportunities to branch out on their own . |
14 | None the less , irrespective of what their position might be , modern anthropology would reject the view that the progress of technology is totally irreversible , although the sequence of technological progress Marx and Engels took over from their anthropological sources is still , by and large , acceptable . |
15 | His mind went back to their brief conversation of the night before : ‘ I want to see you , ’ she had said , ‘ now . ’ |
16 | DEREK Cook watched Coleraine go down to their fifth consecutive defeat — and prayed for a reprieve from manager Billy Sinclair . |
17 | Dolphins that feed mainly on squid usually have fewer teeth and have developed other adaptations to hold on to their slippery-bodied meals . |
18 | The overlap with the districts needs to be eradicated , it 's a black hole at the moment , every district can pass a its surplus on to another district , and indeed it would be the last district to prepare a district wide local plan that has to meet the residue of the Greater York requirement , it may maybe a good stimulus for the districts to get on with their local plans , but that 's not an planning way . |
19 | Mansell is 39 — but top drivers carry on into their 50's in the 16-race Indy series that , oddly , kicks off in Surfer 's Paradise , Australia . |
20 | Gabriel watched them through the knothole beside his pillow , their gaberdines stretched out above their jerking heads , like two long-legged birds pecking at each other in the rain . |
21 | Fans can see it on TV three times a day and are holding parties dressed up as their favourite characters . |
22 | Braun and Oral-B fight back with their effective Plaque Remover |
23 | His only possibility is to tap the latent anger , which he has to keep suppressed for the most part , and the social depression that would enable him and his peers to speak out from their own consciousness in order that a mature and civilized level of relationship can be attained between them and others . |
24 | A statement such as ‘ That makes me feel very angry/unhappy/sad/upset when you do that ’ rather than immediately shouting at the child enables parents to stand back from their immediate emotional reactions and also teach the child awareness of other people 's feelings . |
25 | These snazzy rollers heat up in their own box which holds three different sized , colour-coded rollers . |
26 | another Central South success story this year has been the form of Gloucestershire racing trainer David Nicholson … yesterday he opened his new stables at Ford for the very first time and racing folk turned up in their thousands |
27 | The indignity of the situation infuriated him : that he , straight from church , should be swamped by this ribald , vulgar , beer-reeking mob reeling out from their godless pleasures . |
28 | The Bewick Swans will leave Slimbridge to fly back to their Russian breeding grounds next March . |
29 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
30 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |