Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Certain lizards take the spiky defence trend a major step further , with long , sharp spines growing out of their scaly skins . |
| 4 | It is argued that the breadth and depth of the market in small company shares is suffering , particularly as the volume of trading in smaller company shares has dropped since the crash of October 1987 as investors have fled to blue chip shares , and the number of brokers cutting back on their small firms business has increased . |
| 5 | Gladioli blazing out of their thick green sheaths , sprigs of speckled green and yellow laurel . |
| 6 | Yet there can be no sympathy for Cambridge missing out on their ninth away win of the season . |
| 7 | Now those same partners gave their blessing to the idea of the two solicitors moving out of their own offices , and setting up a temporary Law Centre where everyone involved could get together and fight for the return of the children ; they would fight for justice , and ultimately a judicial inquiry . |
| 8 | Hence , it is argued , the technology was developed to meet the requirements of large-scale factory production rather than of small-scale craft producers operating out of their own cottages . |
| 9 | Jube had his feet , the other two were cradling his upper body between them , his head lolling back against their linked arms . |
| 10 | There are really three lochs rather than one , almost separate , but joined by narrows , and after a wild winter , when the snows begin to melt , these narrows become rivers in their own right , with ice-cold waters pounding through on their three-and-a-half mile journey to the sea . |
| 11 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 12 | Then , then of course there were n't no traffic signs in the middle of the road , it was a sort of er certain people from went and started that up and er they were all wor all worked in Caldmore it was almost as though the tailoring Caldmore was full of tailors in a way then there were people starting up on their own making clothes , but er there was quite a lot of tailors around er I know there was he 'd got a shop on Caldmore , he was a tailor and er shall we go through all the shops ? |
| 13 | The officers of the council attend the committees for the purpose of giving facts to the committee and of tendering advice arising out of their professional knowledge and experience . |
| 14 | ‘ The costs are the biggest bar to people setting up on their own but I could use his phones , his photocopier , computer , telex , even his secretary to begin with . ’ |
| 15 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 16 | It felt like Checkpoint Charlie , but in fact no one tried to stop you except the alkies lurching up off their piss-stained benches with some story about needing the bus fare back home to Sheffield . |
| 17 | All the teachers bouncing about in their flower-power gear , trying to get you to dance with them , and old Fungus Williams playing his ancient records . |
| 18 | There are no cars in Venice — you 'll often see the locals coming out of their front doors and leaping into the boats tied up outside — and everything must be delivered by water . |
| 19 | This is a designated training post for doctors starting out in their medical careers , during which they should acquire greater responsibility for patient care and competence in a wide range of general skills . |
| 20 | The dismissals , believed to be traceable to members backing out of their combined $3.5m pledge to continue funding the operation , leave president Tom Mace , technical vice-president Andy Silverman , operations manager Claudia Marshall , and a secretary , in place . |
| 21 | The dismissals , believed traceable to members backing out of their combined $3.5m pledge to continue funding the operation , leave president Tom Mace , technical vice president Andy Silverman , operations manager Claudia Marshall and a secretary in place . |
| 22 | There are many teachers working out of their cultural contexts , and very frequent movement and transfer . |
| 23 | For the sake of completeness I would add that the Hammonds have been convicted of offences of dishonesty arising out of their financial arrangements with the building society and that a bankruptcy order has been made against Mr. Hammond . |
| 24 | they feel confident in using the term ‘ success ’ to describe the experiences of the majority of these families and children and there is little evidence that a group of similarly aged white children growing up with their natural parents would not include a number of children experiencing similar or greater difficulties'. ( pp. 132–3 ) |
| 25 | The German and French objective , therefore , is to have a common European perimeter border against further immigration and to share the burden arising out of their open-ended commitments by allowing the immigrants they attract to move freely within the EEC . |
| 26 | If a self-access library is to be effective , you need to spend time viewing every recording , putting yourself in the position of trainees sitting down on their own to make what they can of it . |
| 27 | A lady in one of the flats said , there are still children playing about on their own . |
| 28 | Perhaps some wore jackets this time and perhaps some restaurants pampered their customers with radiant ceiling heating slanting down on their open galleries , but the Tivoli lights still swung as gently in the trees , the musicians played as sweetly , and the Pantominteatret still stood in all its glory , its magnificent ‘ curtain' of a peacock with fan-shaped tail unfurled waiting dramatically against a sky of indigo velvet for the second performance of the evening . |
| 29 | She would n't be seeing any dead women getting out of their rocking chairs . |
| 30 | One glimpse brought all his prejudices bubbling up from their hidden depths . |