Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not content with being obsessive about failed British pop performers like Belouis Some and Matt Fretton ( who , as they will always tell you , were ‘ big in Japan ’ ) , these star victims get all steamed up about their own home-grown talent-free singers , which the record companies churn out year after year . |
| 2 | In previous eras Ireland could depend upon longevity of service from its best players ; Mike Gibson , Syd Millar , Tom Kiernan , Willie-John McBride , Fergus Slattery all battled on into their mid-thirties . |
| 3 | More than 40 children aged between three and five turned up as their favourite nursery rhyme or story book characters . |
| 4 | When the two partners first set up on their own — according to Byrne , with only $5000 capital and giving up a secure future — they did so under the guise of an employment agency , so that they would not appear to be in direct competition with their ex-employers . |
| 5 | The rather tacky set , the lucklustre performances , the script from David Straun and Heather Williams that lurches from trite audience participation to over-the-head jokes ( would any primary-school child get the one about water privatisation ? ) , all did n't seem to matter as the company of four scampered around with their well-intentioned tale of how the white man destroyed the American Indians . |