Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] in their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | She hung around in their sub-hippy world , camouflaged , but never feeling she belonged . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Or hitching rides to nowhere with the additional old stiffs who cruise by in their cunning old cars . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ When you consider the inexperience of the side they put out in their first Test against France , their 20–15 victory was remarkable . |
| 10 | They came down in their own time , after they 'd left off work , and they 'd have a small job done ; and then they 'd take it back ready for work the next morning . |
| 11 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 12 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 13 | It was with a certain amount of satisfaction that they settled down in their own kitchen and discussed their financial situation . |
| 14 | They ride … they race … they watch for fun … and they roll up in their thousands … the South Midlands Area Hunt Club got the new season underway at Heythrop near Chipping Norton with a bumper card of 158 horses and 11 races … |
| 15 | SPORTING blue berets and Uzi submachineguns as they hurtle along in their spanking new vehicles , 1,000 Italian soldiers have started to patrol the 300-kilometre ( 190-mile ) road that runs from the Mozambican port of Beira westward to landlocked Zimbabwe . |
| 16 | You know when they go round in their little cars . |
| 17 | Then a snowballing effect takes over , with the larger lumps able to grow larger still because their own gravity would attract other particles as they sweep along in their own orbit . |
| 18 | Two countries , until the will of the people decided we 'd had enough and they went out in their hundreds of thousands and pulled the Wall down . |
| 19 | And as they were fretting about it being nicked , it turned up in their own backyard . |
| 20 | This book shows teachers how they can gain a better understanding of what goes on in their own classrooms , and how to use this understanding to guide their learners effectively . |
| 21 | Sloman prompts one to ask what it could be like to be an entity that controlled all existing ( presumably conscious ) human beings but had no access to what went on in their conscious minds at all , and of which , ex hypothesi , the humans themselves were not aware ? |