Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] to their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had married late , a buxom research scientist from Cambridge twenty years his junior , and drove back to their modern flat on the outskirts of the city each night in his Jaguar — his chief extravagance frequently late , but seldom too late to bear her off to their local pub . |
| 2 | Each sex continued to use its original language and to pass it on to their same-sex offspring . |
| 3 | At the time it was found that a major drawback in dual-purpose cattle was that they often failed to breed true : the offspring tended towards either the beef or the dairy type of the breed 's dual-purpose spectrum , partly because of breeders ' preferences but partly , it was believed , because the dual-purpose breeds were effectively hybrids : if they had begun to show too great an emphasis on dairy characteristics , extreme beef sires were introduced to draw them back to their dual-purpose role , and likewise extreme dairy sires were used when they became too beefy . |
| 4 | Boilies actually encouraged the carp to suck them back to their pharyngeal teeth in order to crush them ; this in turn ensured that the large hook entered well into their mouths . |
| 5 | Governments will then be hard put to get it on to their national statute books by mid-1993 . |
| 6 | These are sent to patients with a request to take them along to their general practitioner within 10 days . |
| 7 | This , for Nelson , is the soul of Berlioz 's art , the musical equivalent of jeweller setting gemstones in precious metal , not merely to hold them in place , but to show them off to their greatest advantage . |
| 8 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |