Example sentences of "their [noun] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman carried a bouquet of dried violets , their petals faded almost to lilac . |
| 2 | In 1985 a further Act was passed which went beyond controlling the operation of existing local governments , when the Greater London Council ( created in 1965 ) and metropolitan county councils ( created in 1974 ) were abolished and their responsibilities transferred either to borough/district councils or to joint authorities of various types . |
| 3 | For two days the children camped out in the hospital waiting-room as their father clung on to life . |
| 4 | It looked surprised for a moment , and then toppled over and shattered into gravel ( trolls being silicaceous lifeforms , their bodies reverted instantly to stone at the moment of death ) . |
| 5 | He would have preferred it had their arguments led directly to immaterialism , and showed not merely that we do not know what qualities material objects have , but indeed that they have none , or even that there are no such objects . |
| 6 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 7 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 8 | Muslim ones tend to shrivel up at the thought of their women going out to work . |
| 9 | Children are not at increased psychiatric risk if their mother goes out to work , for instance , providing the alternative day care arrangements are of good quality , ensuring continuity of caretaking , adequate love and attention and opportunity for play and conversation . |