Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] their [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had a painted chest of drawers and tiny wardrobe and she fell asleep enjoying their shapes in the fading light . |
| 2 | The distinct lozenges of mud have gone , worn down by the weather , but it is possible to see their outlines in the dissolving walls . |
| 3 | It is no surprise that people are prepared to risk their lives before the bulldozers . |
| 4 | The council 's chief executive , Alan White , warned that without the catalyst of Safer City funding it was unlikely that organisations involved in the partnership would be willing to continue their efforts on the crime fighting front . |
| 5 | Under the captaincy of Tom Ingledew , the Hopewell had returned late , but safely , the first autumn of their occupancy of Everhope , laden with goods , with candles , skillets , nails , lace shirts , hats , hammers and other necessities of civilisation ( but no shoes , unfortunately ) , as well as several more of their countrymen willing to try their fortunes in the Americas . |
| 6 | Englishwomen , some pushing their pushchairs along the winding muddy roads , other older ones fanning their faces with trembling hands and still wearing their coloured woolly hats . |
| 7 | According to the Algerian press this showed their reservations about the League 's functioning and political position . |
| 8 | Jivers young and old wiggled their bodies to the irresistible African rhythms . |
| 9 | It is my belief that the people who are willing to put their lives on the line , we , are patriotic . |
| 10 | Thus , almost a century ago , five judges were prepared to voice their reservations about the marital rape exemption . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd be amazed how many workers are prepared to offload their problems during the witching hour , ’ he said when he was told of the project . |
| 12 | ‘ Once the terminology for the right of way is changed , the authorities may well find it a lot easier to change their minds about the sort of traffic it carries ’ said another resident . |
| 13 | Some bare their souls on their feet and some bare their souls in the bars . |
| 14 | This leaves their challengers with the uphill task of performing early to a half empty venue , or , in the case of SENSER , consigned to the early morning graveyard shift , by which time most of the audience has ( literally ) crashed out . |
| 15 | The Japanese suspend their phototubes in the water . |
| 16 | The six received their awards from the Celebrities Guild of Great Britain at London 's Royal Garden Hotel . |
| 17 | The saucy six RUN their hands up the men 's legs just as they are about to make a vital shot . |
| 18 | Here again it is easy for the unaware to extend their activities beyond the scope of their authorisation , a breach which , understandably , is treated particularly seriously . |
| 19 | 29 aircraft claimed to have bombed the city , 21 brought their bombs back having failed to locate their targets and six jettisoned their loads in the sea . |
| 20 | Other wardens were from time to time granted leave by Henry III to postpone their accounts at the Exchequer , and he remitted the debts of others . |
| 21 | European markets were further unsettled in early September by monetary developments in Finland and Sweden , both of which were applicants for EC membership [ see pp. 38834 ; 38353 ] and both of which — following a similar step by Norway [ see p. 37782 ] — had in 1991 associated their currencies with the ERM [ see pp. 38297 ; 38202 ] . |
| 22 | By the end of the decade more than 1,200 had their snouts in the trough . |
| 23 | The Security Council debate had been preceded by a series of statements by and an exchange of letters between de Klerk and Mandela in which each stated their terms for the resumption of constitutional talks . |
| 24 | In Northern Ireland in 1988 , while 1105 companies were subject to quota legislation , only 298 met their obligations under the Act . |
| 25 | These lay their eggs in the nests of other birds , which then act as unwitting foster parents . |
| 26 | More disasters followed , when it was found that the track had been laid slightly out-of-gauge , and all of the new cars 27–41 broke their axles in the first two weeks . |
| 27 | Other family-run firms have remained dynamic ( e.g. Marks & Spencer ) but wealthy individuals today are more likely to spread their investments with the aid of financial institutions . |
| 28 | It confirmed that opera lovers were most likely to spread their favours across the art forms . |
| 29 | All three deposit their surveys at the ESRC Data Archive at the University of Essex , but the data arrives in a form that can be quite hard to read , and it can take several months for the Archive to be able to supply even small amounts of the raw data in a form usable on most college computers . |
| 30 | Of the rest , some were already leaving Ottery to begin their careers by the time Coleridge 's own memories began , and he grew up in the schoolmaster 's house chiefly among the younger family members who remained . |