Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This is the time when most parents retire to a comfortable chair or get on with their other jobs . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Furthermore , the Central Powers were virtually besieged and cut off from their new ally , Turkey , which had entered the war in October 1914 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Kittens sometimes take badly to this over-zealous embrace and strike out with their sharp claws . |
8 | The others would get bored with waiting and go off on their own without him . |
9 | 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 . |