Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again . |
| 2 | But I never rise to their teasing . |
| 3 | And as Wolff ( 1983a , p. 37 ) points out , ‘ despite important constitutional , social and medical disadvantages which often contribute to their genesis , the disorders themselves are most helpfully explained on the basis of psychological mechanisms . ’ |
| 4 | Over here , it 's MCA who have shown themselves more than keen to clutch them to the corporate breast , and have consequently raised the stakes uncomfortably high for a band who readily confess to their ignorance of this caper 's day-by-day dealings . |
| 5 | We generally got to their place just as they were finishing breakfast . |
| 6 | Were they so committed to their cause that the thought did n't bother them , like the Japanese . |
| 7 | A governess has no time of her own , no friends , no one to talk to , and if she gets angry with the children , they just run to their mother . |
| 8 | He told the police they normally walked to their accommodation in Forest Road by a different route , but on that day they went along Boundary Road because the other path was muddy . |
| 9 | In the home however , they soon adapt to their owner 's timetable , often to the extent that deviations from it induce erratic behaviour which can develop into a full-blown eating disorder . |
| 10 | But at night when they get sleepy they always go to their mother and sleep in her embrace . |
| 11 | By keeping it more or less behind them and to their left they could be sure of travelling north-west which was the direction they believed right but the inequalities of the ground often forced them out of their way and although they always returned to their line they had to guess what corrections to make to allow for obstacles . |
| 12 | The drama created a desire , a need for knowledge , which was useful to them — and when they later returned to their drama they were far more committed to it . |
| 13 | When he came home on leave in April 1930 , they both returned to their childhood home and made all the necessary arrangements for its sale . |
| 14 | They then return to their bureau to start interviewing for four weeks . |
| 15 | They then said to their Dad that although they missed their Mum very much indeed , they were beginning to see that their Dad needed them around to have people to talk to about their Mum , and so now they were asking Jesus to make sure nothing else awful happened . |
| 16 | Antony firstly seeked the political side , he now appeals to their greed by producing Caesar 's will and saying that he is n't going to read it . |
| 17 | Instead of protecting detainees , therefore , it simply adds to their number . |