Example sentences of "[noun] go [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 | Jean : She 's told some kids to go back to their own country . |
| 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 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
| 6 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She was happy to be near a door into the street , where she could see passers-by and know that other lives went on in their placid courses . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 12 | Grown-up sons go off on their own , grown-up daughters stay put or set up splinter groups nearby . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Feeling vaguely foolish , the pair went back to their own room . |
| 15 | The little ones go out on their own |
| 16 | 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 . |