Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 2 | Old Señor Freitas coughed , before he said , ‘ Sometimes señoritas have families who want them to go back to their own country . ’ |
| 3 | It was strange , too , Anne thought , that everyone got on with their normal lives , in spite of the constant raids and disturbed nights , and had become used to seeing servicemen in so many different uniforms thronging the streets and the cinemas , and in the public houses she was sure , although she had never been in one . |
| 4 | Few of them got back to their own country . |
| 5 | DEC says it has no plans to licence its SVR4 work to other OSF/1 probables like Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , fully expecting them to come up with their own solutions in this area . |
| 6 | ‘ One can hardly appear wearing L-plates , but no-one stands up for their first performance of a great work saying : ‘ This is the definitive version . ’ |
| 7 | " Nice to hear of someone hanging on to their old family possessions . |
| 8 | ‘ Before a new resident is admitted to this Home , I go out to their own home to make an assessment . |
| 9 | You will also have the chance to provide informal activities which could be anything from putting on a record or cassette for some listening or dancing , to reading aloud , or getting someone fixed up with their portable stereo or a good romance to read . |
| 10 | Ligachev argued that collective and state farms were still the backbone of the system and that most peasants did not want to leave them to set up on their own . |
| 11 | We were watching the tufted ducks which made up for their late appearance this season by arriving in more than usual strength . |
| 12 | In turn , this creates even more secret cabals which go off on their own and carry out unauthorised operations , firmly believing that their plan is the only way to make progress . |
| 13 | What was striking was that the women artists were reshaping an inherited iconographic language and that it had become theirs to stake out as their own : the language of the body . |
| 14 | It stood at right angles to the road , and rather nearer it than most of the larger houses which stood back in their well-kept gardens . |
| 15 | She also thinks that men tend to choose women who make up for their own shortcomings . |
| 16 | Miss Sergeant , 26 , obtained an injunction to keep Redmond away from her and she moved out with their three children to stay with relatives , said Robert Atherton , prosecuting . |
| 17 | The ‘ Blanco script ’ — with its romance , riddles and emotion — captured the imagination of the public who turned up in their thousands to bid him farewell in his first and last Championship final . |
| 18 | Might have been more restful than running round like a lunatic stuffing pâté de foie gras into the undeserving old ghouls who turned up in their dozens today . ’ |
| 19 | She hung around in their sub-hippy world , camouflaged , but never feeling she belonged . |
| 20 | With a sense of impending doom heavy on her shoulders , she went up to their shared suite to have a long , relaxing shower before preparing herself for the fireworks that would inevitably , as night overtook day , follow . |
| 21 | ‘ The essence of Eldorado as a series about people who live out of their own countries is very much its strength . |
| 22 | She put up with their pushful ways , |
| 23 | The Smiths , the Kays and the Wyllies were humble men who stayed on in their native county and did not amass great wealth , nevertheless , they are remembered long after most of the supposedly important people of their generations have been forgotten . |
| 24 | Or hitching rides to nowhere with the additional old stiffs who cruise by in their cunning old cars . |
| 25 | No talk of going out for meals then , everyone rushed off to their respective homes , grateful for the knowledge that they would not have to be back in the Variety Theatre until the ‘ half ’ on the Monday evening . |
| 26 | ‘ It was all set up for us on Tuesday night , yet we went out to their only effort on goal . |
| 27 | They had reason to hate the Turks , who had driven them from their homes ; they were grateful for the grants of land which enabled them to settle down in their new homes , and they owed no allegiance to the Croatian and Hungarian nobles . |
| 28 | So we let them go on in their grubby little greedy ways while we looked at papers and account books and took an inventory of the wine-cellar and just watched how the system operated . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Well , they were blindfolded before they got out of their own car that morning , as you know . |
| 30 | None of the group is especially common as fossils , but they make up for their general rarity by their interest . |