Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp .
2 This is the time when most parents retire to a comfortable chair or get on with their other jobs .
3 In such cases the extended family begins to look quite complex , but it is still essentially based upon the original pair , and when young do become fully adult they are driven away or wander off on their own to form separate pairs .
4 They began following its twisting route , keeping close to the cover of the trees in case they should meet with any oncoming sect vehicle going to relieve or check up on their outside patrol .
5 Many women , confronted by Kohlbergian questionnaires , ask for , or contribute out of their own imagination , concrete detail which might help them resolve the moral dilemma with which they are presented .
6 It may happen when parents have indoctrinated their children , that is , laid down a set of beliefs without allowing the children freedom to think for themselves and to come up with their own reactions .
7 Then , en masse , they embraced and staggered off towards their waiting cars and frozen drivers .
8 Furthermore , the Central Powers were virtually besieged and cut off from their new ally , Turkey , which had entered the war in October 1914 .
9 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 .
10 THREE masked thugs trussed up businessman Tom Hartley and his wife Helen at their home and drove off in their new £60,000 Mercedes with valuables worth £250,000 .
11 By now they were in among thickening crowds of people , nodding to acquaintances and looking out for their own key men from down the valley .
12 Tranmere Rovers verses Swindon Town.Now all it needs is for the Swindon players to hold their nerve and hold on to their two goal advantage .
13 • After several days on this schedule they will be going to bed and getting up at their chosen time , one that gives them enough sleep during the weekdays .
14 The hoof sounds came nearer , irregular now as the two horses galloped together , rearing their heads and kicking out with their hind legs .
15 Australia soaked the pressure , punished Ireland 's handling blunders and scampered out of their 22 at will to score tries that numbed the huge crowd .
16 The specialists are then much easier to satisfy — providing they are given the right kind of food , they are content to sit and stare out from their cages , much as they would sit and stare out at their wild landscapes .
17 From the internationally known names — such as press secretary Marlin Fitzwater — to anonymous civil servants , they will be packing their bags and moving on in their hundreds .
18 By adopting this ‘ historical ’ approach , misunderstandings can be traced back to their origins , and then linked and brought up to their current situation .
19 So when I went creaking up the winding back staircase to the two attics and looked in through their respective doors ( ‘ Do n't touch , dear …
20 Stories about the illegal capture and sale of wild animals do n't usually have happy endings , and so no wonder there was much celebration when 10 wild-caught orang-utans smuggled into Taiwan and destined for the pet trade were confiscated by Taiwanese officials and sent back to their Indonesian homeland for rehabilitation .
21 They could all ride now — after a fashion — and stay on over their modest course of jumps ( built of railway sleepers ) ; they could all swim at least three lengths and run a mile without stopping to fall in a heap every hundred yards , not very fast perhaps , but improving all the time .
22 Kittens sometimes take badly to this over-zealous embrace and strike out with their sharp claws .
23 The others would get bored with waiting and go off on their own without him .
24 erm So that there are a large number of tropical foresters now who 've been here and gone back to their own country , and one of the things which I point out to them these days is the need for public relations in their own countries , and getting information across to governments and being able to talk to economists and finance people in their own countries .
25 It is abruptly open to question , this idea the doctors hold in secret , that they must wield the special power ; because if the power remains unused , then it will become unmoored , and turn back against their own lives .
26 Refreshed , they bade us all adieu , and sped off in their big car .
27 They required the most sophisticated communications technology so that they could transmit their stories and pictures back to their own countries .
28 The press had no right to pry and push and sneak about in their private lives , but it was undeniable that if their marriage were to fail , it would open up an entire can of constitutional worms that the monarchy could well do without .
29 For the FA Cup Finalists to go down Sunderland would have to lose their last three matches , with Oxford winning their final game at Tranmere and making up for their inferior goal difference , Plymouth and Newcastle also winning , and Grimsby getting at least a draw .
30 The bricks and other plastic toys then need to be sorted and fitted back into their appropriate containers .
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