Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Bob and Tessa 's house Jannie projected all the reconstruction and improvement which she and John had never found either money or energy enough to carry out in their own . |
| 2 | But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter . |
| 3 | It may prove difficult because individuals may not be able to see the whole of the organisation since they are so wrapped up in their own specialised part of it . |
| 4 | For the first time for a long while , Corbett felt wanted and warmed to these simple yet sophisticated men so bound up in their own routine of prayer , work and study that they regarded any visitor as a visible sign of God 's grace . |
| 5 | Kangaroos happened to exploit two-legged hopping , and so ended up with their own uniquely ( at least since the dinosaurs ) massive hind legs and tail . |
| 6 | The rabbits mostly came in of their own accord . |
| 7 | Or you can actually try freezing them to kill them and then they just drop off on their own . |
| 8 | ‘ They were not just going off on their own into the bush they were in tourist locations . |
| 9 | They were finally pouring out on their own . |
| 10 | Just turn up on their own , or get , come by car or something |
| 11 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 12 | Just sitting and looking into space , or just carrying about on their own . |
| 13 | The fire brigade declined to shed light on the matter , however , claiming that moggies always came down of their own accord . |
| 14 | Although these are intended to complement written work , they almost always stand up in their own right . |
| 15 | Those who promise great things do not always match up to their own or anyone else 's expectations ! |
| 16 | I am often bemused by the men who criticize a woman 's shape when they are quite clearly looking down on their own unsightly ‘ pregnant'-looking stomachs . |
| 17 | Of the widowed and single , by contrast , only two-thirds now lived on in their own homes , usually with their children or lodgers , or very rarely grandchildren , but 12 per cent on their own . |
| 18 | Rivals in Britain , Japan and Finland are now coming out with their own similar designs . |
| 19 | The nations of Europe , increasingly taken up with their own military and economic problems , responded by increasingly withdrawing from any attempt to exact further concessions . |
| 20 | Looking again at those dim shapes around the flame , they did appear to be rigs , vaguely made out in their own gassy glare . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ As usual , the Government and their fellow-travellers are trying hard to slither out of their own responsibility for it . |
| 22 | A group of about fifty teenagers who had followed them then set off on their own march through the banned area . |
| 23 | ‘ They 'll decide if they want to accept it , ’ said Claridge , ‘ add any modifications and then come back with their own document called the Community Support Framework . |
| 24 | In nearly every street in Whitechapel there was a Levy or a Cohen , an Abrahams , Moses or Grossman — sometimes living together in one area , sometimes striking out on their own . |
| 25 | When they have arrived at the fully mobile stage of their development , but have not yet ventured off on their own , they may accompany their mother on short trips away from the ‘ nest , . |
| 26 | From now on the locals would do what they were told to do by Detroit , and if they did n't like it they could take the option of either getting out of their own free will , or being booted out . |
| 27 | They are far too wrapped up in their own small struggles to worry overmuch about what others are doing and why . |
| 28 | Most people are too wrapped up in their own lives to be bothered that other people 's freedoms and rights are being infringed , until it happens to them , and then it 's too late . ’ |
| 29 | And they had kept their counsel , never spoken out about their own beliefs . |
| 30 | They never come round on their own , and you you see them in the daytime , you know probably one or twice a week . |