Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War . |
| 2 | ‘ His name is Matthew Blake , ’ Mandy informed Charity as they descended the steps from their cabin on to the paved pathway that led to the lodge . |
| 3 | Cold swimmers demanded their money back at the new Ponteland Leisure Centre after claiming the water was too cold . |
| 4 | One evening at Pack Meeting Beegee , which was the name the Pack had made up for their Guider out of the initial letters B and G of Brownie Guider , told the Brownies that the County Girl Guides ' Fete was to be held in a few weeks ' time in Morley Park and that the 3rd Shortfields Pack must think what to do to help make the fete a huge success . |
| 5 | Add the tomatoes and their juice along with the drained pear halves . |
| 6 | It would escape , it would burst , if at all , if ever , only beyond their sight up among the undiscernible stars . |
| 7 | After incubation and the exertions of tending their young , adults require the rest of the summer to regain condition and undergo at least a partial moult , then to fatten again for their journey back to the wintering grounds . |
| 8 | A river flowed near to Bavduin , and each night the dead came to the water on their journey back to the cold earth of their own times and lands . |
| 9 | Carrie 's young brother was waiting to tie up a brace of barges to a river tug for their journey back to the Royal Albert Dock and he had taken the opportunity to visit his sister and her husband in the dining rooms . |
| 10 | This applies notably to cowrie shells which partly for this reason have maintained their status down to the ethnographic present in many parts of the world . |
| 11 | Born into one of the oldest families of Ulthuan , the brothers can trace their line back to the doomed King Aenarion , first and mightiest of the Phoenix Kings of Ulthuan . |
| 12 | But Sir George Gardiner , chairman of the right-of-centre 1992 Group of Tories , and Brent North MP Sir Rhodes Boyson have both now said they will throw their hand in with the Prime Minister . |
| 13 | And on Sunday , the Archbishop of Canterbury , George Carey ( at a service of dedication to mark — of all things — the advent of the single European market ) , inveighed against the ‘ trickle-down ’ theory of wealth distribution , whereby ever-higher incomes for the wealthy are somehow supposed ‘ naturally ’ to find their way through to the poor . |
| 14 | Cranston and Athelstan stabled their horses in a dingy tavern and walked back , forcing their way through to the great prison door . |
| 15 | Seven members had won their way through to the British Finals . |
| 16 | Weeds and other flowers had forced their way up through the cracked paving of the floors . |
| 17 | Clods of earth were tearing their way up through the humped grass . |
| 18 | The stairs were still sound and both boys made their way up to the top floor . |
| 19 | But instead of waiting on the same platform for an Edgware train , they made their way up to the British Rail terminus , and in the men 's lavatory the bear got into his bear suit . |
| 20 | The promise of plenty of planting can prove useful to a company in search of planning permission , so Waterers has found its services increasingly in demand by supermarket giants Sainsbury 's and Tesco as they try and inveigle their way on to the green belt . |
| 21 | This will be particularly important in our efforts to explore the ways in which the private traumas of married couples have found their way on to the public agendas of churchmen , politicians , policy makers and others over a fifty year period . |
| 22 | So it becomes very much more common with , among sort of lower middle classes , the people who are working their way out of the working classes . |
| 23 | ( Several delegates were heard to mutter , ‘ Surely that write-off/obsolescence figure was too low ’ , as they made their way out of the main meeting room . ) |
| 24 | They had met when dining at English 's Oyster House , and were on their way back to the rebuilt Grand Hotel for a night-cap and bed . |
| 25 | Thoughts of that previous one only crept their way back with the forbidden thought of a child . |
| 26 | I wait by the gate as they pick their way down to the slimy bottom of the dip . |
| 27 | The older chalets have had facelifts , their corrugated iron roofs replaced by red pantiles , whitewashed boundary walls topped off by yet more red pantiles to give them a Mediterranean resort flavour in hopes of luring their customer back from the real thing . |
| 28 | At the other extreme , the argument that extant phyla maintain their identity back to the Cambrian offers no more than a tautology . |
| 29 | The Royal Duke was a fishermen 's pub with an afternoon trade from men who had brought their catch in during the small hours of the morning . |