Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] [prep] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This demands that they each individually recapitulate within their own personal development the evolution of their culture — a process which is the unconscious and fundamental equivalent of formal education . |
| 2 | They lay for a while , their hands lightly clasped , each deeply engrossed in their own thoughts . |
| 3 | After the whambamthankyouma'am of the sixties , the seventies barely existed in their own right , but were more a kind of dream time when no one wanted to admit the good times had gone , or indeed had never really been . |
| 4 | Exposed to Minton 's freewheeling , glamorous Bohemianism , some found it difficult afterwards to stand on their own feet , for Minton had effectively broken them away from their backgrounds or their jobs . |
| 5 | Unless the United Nations peacekeepers proved very much tougher in Serbia than they have done in Croatia , that would have made it unlikely that Croats and Muslims would have felt secure enough to return to their former homes . |