Example sentences of "[v-ing] their [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The return to rock means the supercession of demystification by re-mystification , giving people back their sense of worship , rather than forcibly opening their eyes to the nuts and bolts of how ‘ myth ’ is constructed . |
| 2 | The problems faced by princes go a long way to explaining their activities during the lifetimes of their fathers , especially their hostility to their stepmothers . |
| 3 | Today you have watched our mandarins banging their foreheads on the flagstones — but not for our emperor ! |
| 4 | Judges sat behind closed doors and took only written evidence , basing their decisions on the records of preliminary investigations conducted by the police . |
| 5 | Collectivist solutions go further than this , basing their arguments on the differences in the nature of consumption and accountability in the public and private sectors . |
| 6 | They were walking their horses among the sand-dunes south of the castle , and on their left hand the sea ran high and grey , and the gulls were uneasy , aware of coming wind . |
| 7 | It is alarming to hear how many relatively inexperienced pilots seem completely unaware of the risks they take when pitting their skills against the forces of nature . |
| 8 | Every morning she could hear them singing their mantras with the children . |
| 9 | They 'll be stopping motorists in the hope of jogging their memories about the events of seven days ago . |
| 10 | When he smiles , he looks slightly goofy , the skin pulled right over his cheeks like the face children make by sticking their fingers in the corners of their mouths . |
| 11 | In the middle of the crowd — people arriving , people leaving , lost children , tannoy announcements , people queueing at the cashiers ' grilles , checking the airport shops , lugging their cases into the restaurants … in the middle of all that , Culley looked for someone special . |
| 12 | If they discover a grasshopper or a beetle , they swarm all over it , sinking their jaws between the joints of its external skeleton and dismembering it with surgical precision . |
| 13 | Every one had to be taken out and held down while we picked off the ants that were sinking their jaws between the scales . |
| 14 | He allowed them just enough milk to supplement the grass they were learning to eat and then pushed them aside , replacing their mouths on the teats with his fingers , squeezing the milk in short squirts into a frothing bowl on the ground below . |
| 15 | The Greeks were too busy celebrating their victories against the Celts in verse or marble to give serious thought to the causes of such commotions . |
| 16 | The emancipation of the poor and oppressed is thus made part of a civilizing process , which is often seen to be conditional on assimilating their demands to the discourses of humanism and rationalism . |
| 17 | ‘ If the sound trade continuously bombards its clientele with music , why can not book browsing be accompanied by the finest voices of the British stage measuring their tonsils against the masterpieces of English verse ? ’ |
| 18 | Thousands will leave their shacks in Soweto and march on Johannesburg , massacring all before them , seizing babies and dashing their heads against the kerbstones . |
| 19 | This causes the anterior pituitary gland to release Luteinizing Hormone , which brings about complete growth of the ovarian follicles and causes some of them to rupture ( ovulation ) , releasing their egg-cells from the ovaries to become available for fertilisation within the oviducts . |
| 20 | They looked at the passports and then started to walk down the aisle , pointing their guns at the passengers . |
| 21 | Together , by getting their fingers in the rat-holes , they managed to tug up a few feet of rotten chestnut boarding , tindery at the edges . |
| 22 | They set about spreading their memories of the books . |
| 23 | At first I get on best with the Highland laddies , matching them dram for dram and can for can , taking their cigarettes and suffering their remarks on the lines of ‘ No I still smoke ’ when I offer them my Silk Cuts but gradually as we get drunker I start to feel uncomfortable with their attitude to the travellers and even more so to women , and Howie , the guy I met last night , talks about how he used to slap the wife around and now the bitch is in one of these fucking women 's refuges and if he ever finds her he 'll fucking kick seven kinds of shit out of her . |
| 24 | No unpleasantness seems to have been caused , but in one instance the opposition went home giving their names for the records . |
| 25 | There are already two vacancies on the Glenavon board with the former chairman and long-serving George Fleming losing their seats at the shareholders AGM last week . |
| 26 | Tapeworms are also members of the group , though they look very different for after burying their heads in the walls of their host 's gut , they bud off egg-bearing sections from their tail end . |
| 27 | A favoured means of hosting a concert was the ‘ kvartir-nik ’ ( flat-nik ) : loyal fans surrendering their flats for the purposes of performance . |
| 28 | By its very nature , therefore , things tend to go wrong ; from the original modifier with all the ideas leaving the company , to the clients changing their minds about the facilities required . |
| 29 | One can forgive the old dugouts retrieving their uniforms from the mothballs and flaunting medal ribbons and red tabs about the place , but the young are beginning to sprout extraordinary garments . |
| 30 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |