Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After spending a month in that city , he was persuaded to return to Kidderminster for a while , but he found the ‘ drunken rabble greatly stirred up by their royalist masters ’ . |
| 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 | They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors , and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Pepper , Cissy , Dorothy , who played the comic char , the Stage Manager Bob , his Assistant and callboy Johnny , all popped out of their various rooms like gophers from their burrows to gather and shout . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In this campaign too — the battle of the River Ebro — the government forces had the initial advantage of surprise , but their much depleted physical and military strength made them unable to turn it to their permanent advantage and they were eventually pushed back to their original positions . |
| 9 | A high powered Sierra was careering down a steep hill in Wotton under Edge.When the driver reached the bottom he lost control and ploughed into the women who 'd just got out of their parked cars . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We counted 17 dead hinds in the wood , most still curled up in their last sleep , dead from cold and wet , exhaustion and starvation . |
| 12 | The news came as British Olympic chiefs demanded that confusion over the status of clenbuterol the drug at the centre of the controversy should be quickly cleared up by their international counterparts . |
| 13 | And the Postman 's spectacle was covered in greenflies from the vigorous activity up the tree : " No , but I says to him " — " Really , all right " — " Well " — " and " — " Oh , you 've done it " — " Must go down to the " — " Taps , got to get some " went the song to the rhythm of empty beer bottles dropping into the side pocket receptacles of tree-holder number 29 on the dustmen 's route — and the tip-holding pockets for the dustmen were not full or anything cos the ladies had all forgotten their purses , and the paper , folding , crumpled , torn money had long since fluttered down from their knicker-elastic banks . |
| 14 | In contrast to the earlier stages of the debate , the concern was to make the common curriculum more than the ‘ basics ’ ( something not altogether borne out in their subsequent pronouncements ) . |
| 15 | If somebody slipped a little cache of something into his plonk , they were probably irritated out of their tiny minds . ’ |
| 16 | Then , as soon as they were given access to each other , and also to the small molecules needed as raw materials , in water , both got back to their old tricks even though they were no longer in a living cell but in a test tube . |
| 17 | Named after Argentinian Independence Day , the group have attracted most attention for their confrontational political stance , most pertinently summed up on their recent mail order-only single and the LP 's strongest track , ‘ Fuck The Right To Vote ’ . |
| 18 | It was the kings ' collective identity as a family , clearly marked out by their distinctive names , that gave the Carolingian world a political unity underlying successive partitions . |
| 19 | Subsequent owners are also reviewed up to their current owners . |
| 20 | Paul and Malcolm Bream first spent time exploring possible sources of voluntary funding , and then saw what might be done with the local authority , but have now turned back to their original search for their own place . |
| 21 | My pair of Birchirs have now settled down in their new home and are feeding very well on a plentiful supply of garden worms . |
| 22 | Dust from such holes sprinkled down upon the drillers and considerable amounts were inevitably taken in by their vigorous inhalations as they laboured . |
| 23 | Vivien is not alone in thinking that the European professionals are making a mistake in looking for the same privileges and superstar treatment that is nowadays meted out to their American sisters . |
| 24 | Thus the French were here driven back to their defensive fortifications but no farther . |
| 25 | The brothers dutifully responded to the May-Day request and immediately set out in their 36 foot launch to search for the bevvied buccaneer . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Looking again at those dim shapes around the flame , they did appear to be rigs , vaguely made out in their own gassy glare . |
| 28 | 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 , . |
| 29 | The other buses were either spread out in their running time or cut down to form the evening frequency which was less than what it was during the peak time and so I , you know , I 'd , I 'd left it at then , when I went in the forces then , he carried on . |
| 30 | And that something is nothing more than their inward consciousness , heavily hemmed in by their subtle and instinctive mental processes . |