Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Re-covering perhaps , or re-painting to fit in with their new circumstances ? |
| 2 | They were going to break out of their self-imposed cage . |
| 3 | Decorative drawings dessins de charme however , fared well , with Paris clients beginning to venture out of their beloved eighteenth century . |
| 4 | ‘ Farmers are having to tune in to their unused assets , ’ says Mr Dockerty . |
| 5 | Other young people vote with their feet and leave early by failing to turn up during their last year , and sometimes their last two years at school . |
| 6 | Today they 're preparing to drive back to their tented barracks on the coast in Split , to pick up another consignment of supplies . |
| 7 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 8 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |
| 9 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 10 | THE new Low Fat Cheesecakes from McVities ( pictured right ) are a long-awaited treat for all those trying to cut down on their fat intake and on their calories . |