Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] to their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean : She 's told some kids to go back to their own country . |
| 2 | When they began to move the flow of blood came back to their stiffened limbs and they felt better . |
| 3 | His mind went back to their brief conversation of the night before : ‘ I want to see you , ’ she had said , ‘ now . ’ |
| 4 | DEREK Cook watched Coleraine go down to their fifth consecutive defeat — and prayed for a reprieve from manager Billy Sinclair . |
| 5 | Dolphins that feed mainly on squid usually have fewer teeth and have developed other adaptations to hold on to their slippery-bodied meals . |
| 6 | The Bewick Swans will leave Slimbridge to fly back to their Russian breeding grounds next March . |
| 7 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
| 8 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
| 9 | Either the Serbs will let the refugees go back to their original homes , which is hard to imagine , or the ‘ protecting ’ soldiers will sooner or later have to escort them out , to look for new homes somewhere else . |
| 10 | Boosted by the appearance of Chris Wilkinson , who had just returned home after gruelling 5 month tour of the Far East and Australasia , Hampshire went on to their historical achievement with some sterling doubles ' performances by the whole team . |
| 11 | The recommencement of any trading would be an open invitation to poachers and smugglers throughout the leopard 's range to get down to their illicit business . |
| 12 | These cells give a large excitatory response to the onset of a small spot of one wavelength shone on to their receptive field centres and a much smaller response to a much larger spot . |
| 13 | Over the marsh stretching beyond the shingle bank at the top of the beach they hawked , snatching winged insects to carry back to their hungry young . |
| 14 | And when it came , the announcement lived up to their worst fears . |
| 15 | I stood staring out of the window into the shifting , cloying mist and wondered about Mathilda 's ghosts trooping back to their worm-eaten beds . |
| 16 | The PVO rebels went back to their old game of harassing the Karens who had been restless ever since their claims to a separate state on ambitious lines had failed . |
| 17 | But does their agreement about guitars carry over to their individual sounds ? |
| 18 | Not all British private-eye stories match up to their American counterparts , but it can be done . |
| 19 | ‘ It would need an increase of 100 per cent in the ewe premiums for the farmers to get back to their previous levels of income at the beginning of the 1980s . ’ |
| 20 | During this period it is essential that all the staff 's normal duties are covered for them , nothing is more likely to prevent successful training than constant telephone interruptions and the need for the staff to get back to their normal work . |
| 21 | Ramblers and many of the climbers flower on year-old wood : new stems grow out to their full length one year — and in the more vigorous kinds , this may be very long indeed — and then bear bloom the following year . |
| 22 | At the conclusion of The Return of the King , the third of the three books — Tolkien always denied they were a trilogy — Frodo and his friends ride back to their lost land , to discover that ‘ they cared about it more than any other place in the world ’ , though its cottages and gardens have been laid waste and replaced by ugly new houses and factories belching smoke ; and they defeat the ruffians who had defiled it and resume the kingdom of little men . |
| 23 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 24 | Certainly — she hoped — not Luke himself , and while her acquaintance with Florian Jones went back to their high-school days in South Africa , she knew he was impervious to anything that did not affect him directly . |
| 25 | Coventry rugby Club the venue for the Bicester army to charge on to their second succesive Twickenham final . |
| 26 | And the students wanted to see how Lennox Lewis stood up to their intellectual punches . |
| 27 | Hilary was too young for that , and sat instead on a swing in the front garden of the Headmaster 's House , watching the secondary-modern-school pupils flock by to their separate schools . |
| 28 | Initially , a majority of these reluctant long-distance movers commute back to their metropolitan jobs , but in the longer term many take up more local jobs — a feature that has grown as employment too has decentralized ( Herington , 1984 ; Congdon and Champion , 1989 ) . |
| 29 | Feeling vaguely foolish , the pair went back to their own room . |
| 30 | Once a consensus had been reached , it had no legal standing , but Citrine expected the chairmen to go back to their own Boards and secure acceptance of the common policy . |