Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they bring them out at their own table shows and , and it 's |
| 2 | The trust agreed to renovate the houses and sell them back to their former owners for the cost of the work and the trust 's expenses , less the value of grants obtained . |
| 3 | The trust agreed to renovate the houses and sell them back to their former owners for the cost of the work and the trust 's expenses , less the value of grants obtained . |
| 4 | Because they 've been good boys we 've helped them extend their landholdings and they lease it back to their own peasants at exorbitant rates — that 's why their own people call them pirates . " |
| 5 | I found that I put them back into their correct order with ease and , for the first and last time , achieved some distinction in the marking . |
| 6 | Artemis and Rosie both stood in silent uncertainty for a moment before Rosie began to pick up the marbles and put them back in their small cloth sack . |
| 7 | Then I washed and dried the two beer-mugs and the three vases , and put them back in their normal places , as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 8 | And they 're real dangerous too — they might jump onto the pavement and swallow me up with their big eyes . |
| 9 | The Frankish king was expected to enforce the treaty imposed upon the Lombards by his father Pepin , and drive them back to their own territories . |
| 10 | These reivers would round up cattle and horses and drive them back to their own lands . |
| 11 | The novices empty vats of mutton scraps into the dustbins and pack them down with their bare hands . |
| 12 | They raid the nest , collect the pupae and carry them back to their own colony . |
| 13 | But to clarify things locate the questionable premises and follow them through to their logical conclusion so that the person in doubt can see it himself . |
| 14 | When you take them out of their high rise environment they are highly stressed and lack confidence and self esteem . |
| 15 | In desperation , the previous week , he had ordered the children to select a favourite passage from books he had been reading with them , write it out in their best handwriting and then add some comments on what they enjoyed about the piece and about the book in general . |
| 16 | Formula might then work not only as a symptom of ‘ mass mind ’ and homogenized thought ; the ‘ people ’ , condemned by Adorno to inertia while the processes of rationalization work themselves through to their totalitarian conclusion , might find that , drawing on old , collectively used methods , they can act , if only in compromised , ambiguous forms . |