Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lyles would like to thank the Stoddard ‘ non-playing ’ Captain , Jimmy Shiels , for stepping in as their late replacement , scoring a creditable 26 points . |
| 2 | the female provarian no the female preference to male clothes , B , children , children 's habit of dressing up in their own parents ' clothes , C , a morbid fear of eggs ? |
| 3 | After lunch , pensioners had the choice of venturing off on their own or visiting the Tales of Robin Hood Centre . |
| 4 | CHAMPIONS and section one league leaders Waringstown are in danger of going down to their first defeat of the season . |
| 5 | It had begun the day before , the suggestion of going off on their own , hiring a car . |
| 6 | Cohabitation with reform-minded Communists is their only chance of breaking out of their lonely weakness . |
| 7 | Some older people dread the idea of moving out of their own homes , while others would enjoy being near or actually living with their relatives . |
| 8 | SCOTLAND made it three wins on the trot in the Home International Indoor Championships in Swansea yesterday despite losing out in their final fixture with England , 106-113 . |
| 9 | Very few of my contemporaries thought of starting up on their own . |
| 10 | He also insinuated that pro-independence republics were implicated , commenting that Soviet monetary collapse would make it easier for " ultra-radicals in a number of republics to solve the problem of changing over to their own currencies " . |
| 11 | Press monopolies inhibit those with different views from launching out on their own . |
| 12 | Middlesbrough race tomorrow night for the final week before reverting back to their usual Wednesday evening slot . |
| 13 | The Russians stuck firmly to the Moscow terminology of December 1945 , including the reference to trusteeship , the reason being that they wished to prevent the Americans from going back on their past support for trusteeship . |
| 14 | It had already been arranged that Eric and Daphne Lovell would drive Rose to her destination before going on to their own and would pick her up later for the return trip . |
| 15 | Even though they were camping illegally the travellers were allowed to stay all weekend , before moving off on their own . |
| 16 | They will spend 20 minutes or so playing and exploring around their home before rambling off to their feeding grounds . |
| 17 | Contestants will line up at the Blundellsands Hotel , Crosby , at 8am on Sunday and will then parade through the city centre before setting off on their cross-Channel jaunt . |
| 18 | Buyers Barbara and Tom Mason are looking forward to moving in to their new Blyth home this summer . |
| 19 | People could then ‘ cash ’ their vouchers at any school of their choice , and they could top them up by paying out of their own pockets for a more expensive school . |
| 20 | Only by getting back to their male roots can these over-complex men become better lovers , fathers and friends . |
| 21 | The Italians lost in the league on Sunday but they 're still confident of progressing to the quarter finals of the Cup winners ' cup by holding on to their one goal advantage . |
| 22 | To accelerate to flying speed the noses of the floats are now lowered onto their bow waves , lifting their tails from the water and minimising drag by running along on their small middle portion , or step . |
| 23 | My Proposition , embracing The House of the Dead , Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , The Possessed , Karamazov , and , negatively , by way of relative failure , The Idiot , is that Dostoevsky could only promote his dearest values by creeping up on their blind side : in other words that he had an urge towards crisis and clarity which he could only satisfy by yielding it to the enemy — to the horror of the flogging routine in the ‘ Thy kingdom come ’ episode in the Dead House at one chronological extreme , and to Ivan Karamazov 's showdown with the Religion Swindle at the other . |