Example sentences of "be [verb] their [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trend towards milder winters is beginning to concern horticulturists. many trees need lengthy cold spells if they are to open their buds at the right time in spring , and research on the Continent confirms that apple trees will be confused by the changing climate . |
| 2 | Writing later , in 1937 , J. B. Priestley 's main concern was to stress the Englishness of Chaplin ( though he did concede that the Chaplin symbol was half-French in inspiration ) and he talked of him as being ‘ the greatest humourist since Dickens ’ and of belonging above all to London 's East End and to ‘ the swarms of bright-eyed urchins who are thumbing their noses at the nearest policemen ’ . |
| 3 | I wonder if on some distant planet there are creatures who are holding their sides at the prospect of us hurling plates at each other . ’ |
| 4 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 5 | ‘ The way retailers are running their businesses at the moment means that they are never overstaffed . |
| 6 | Michael Fallon ( Con ) and Peter Bergg ( Lib Dem ) yesterday met the young men who will be arguing their policies at the school hustings . |
| 7 | However , Fleischmann and Pons were announcing their results at the press conference before they had told any of their scientific colleagues . |
| 8 | On the contrary , they were risking their lives at the forefront of discovery in a new branch of science . |
| 9 | Andy did some earlier work for Palm and Palm were showing their products at the ISPO exhibition . |
| 10 | they were dangling their toes at the end of this thing . |