Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , en masse , they embraced and staggered off towards their waiting cars and frozen drivers . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the Central Powers were virtually besieged and cut off from their new ally , Turkey , which had entered the war in October 1914 . |
| 3 | He had married late , a buxom research scientist from Cambridge twenty years his junior , and drove back to their modern flat on the outskirts of the city each night in his Jaguar — his chief extravagance frequently late , but seldom too late to bear her off to their local pub . |
| 4 | THREE masked thugs trussed up businessman Tom Hartley and his wife Helen at their home and drove off in their new £60,000 Mercedes with valuables worth £250,000 . |
| 5 | • After several days on this schedule they will be going to bed and getting up at their chosen time , one that gives them enough sleep during the weekdays . |
| 6 | The hoof sounds came nearer , irregular now as the two horses galloped together , rearing their heads and kicking out with their hind legs . |
| 7 | The specialists are then much easier to satisfy — providing they are given the right kind of food , they are content to sit and stare out from their cages , much as they would sit and stare out at their wild landscapes . |
| 8 | By adopting this ‘ historical ’ approach , misunderstandings can be traced back to their origins , and then linked and brought up to their current situation . |
| 9 | So when I went creaking up the winding back staircase to the two attics and looked in through their respective doors ( ‘ Do n't touch , dear … |
| 10 | Stories about the illegal capture and sale of wild animals do n't usually have happy endings , and so no wonder there was much celebration when 10 wild-caught orang-utans smuggled into Taiwan and destined for the pet trade were confiscated by Taiwanese officials and sent back to their Indonesian homeland for rehabilitation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Kittens sometimes take badly to this over-zealous embrace and strike out with their sharp claws . |
| 13 | Refreshed , they bade us all adieu , and sped off in their big car . |
| 14 | The press had no right to pry and push and sneak about in their private lives , but it was undeniable that if their marriage were to fail , it would open up an entire can of constitutional worms that the monarchy could well do without . |
| 15 | For the FA Cup Finalists to go down Sunderland would have to lose their last three matches , with Oxford winning their final game at Tranmere and making up for their inferior goal difference , Plymouth and Newcastle also winning , and Grimsby getting at least a draw . |
| 16 | The bricks and other plastic toys then need to be sorted and fitted back into their appropriate containers . |
| 17 | They simply rebuilt the fallen walls , and carried on with their normal efficient and highly organized lives ; they did not associate the earthquake with Vesuvius , and there was no particular reason why they should . |
| 18 | Next thing we knew , they 'd pushed past us , blagged a cup of tea ( three sugars ) and sat down with their dirty hobnail trainers on the shag-pile . |