Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , they were blindfolded before they got out of their own car that morning , as you know . |
| 2 | None of the group is especially common as fossils , but they make up for their general rarity by their interest . |
| 3 | ‘ When you consider the inexperience of the side they put out in their first Test against France , their 20–15 victory was remarkable . |
| 4 | When they both protested , seemingly in vain , at having lines cut , they came up with their own solutions they would accept the cuts , but make do with them badly . |
| 5 | The Reagan crowd ran against the government and against Sacramento and they came in on their white horses and railed against the Legislature . |
| 6 | What happened in Middlesex eventually happened all over England , and as Midland bricks and Welsh slates — and later more unspeakable materials like asbestos and corrugated iron — flooded into every corner of provincial England , the ancient local materials that fitted their own regions so well , for they came out of their very soil , disappeared one by one . |
| 7 | They came down in their own time , after they 'd left off work , and they 'd have a small job done ; and then they 'd take it back ready for work the next morning . |
| 8 | For example , mothers report how they cut back on their own consumption of food in order to protect the living standards of children and partners . |
| 9 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 10 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 11 | Then they turned up with their little son , Daniel , to introduce him to me . |
| 12 | They walked out into their new life , and Clare did n't know whether to envy or pity them . |
| 13 | produced one of the shock wins of the competition when they hung on to their 6–3 lead to beat side who are two leagues Selby 's seniors . |
| 14 | produced one of the shock wins of the competition when they hung on to their 6–3 lead to beat side who are two leagues Selby 's seniors . |
| 15 | When they get back to their own places they go to the middle and pick up a ‘ pearl ’ and go back to stand in their places . |
| 16 | Unless they get back to their winning ways Rovers could even miss the play-offs . |
| 17 | It was with a certain amount of satisfaction that they settled down in their own kitchen and discussed their financial situation . |
| 18 | And that in Street , that w they had worked in Now I forget the name of the big firm but they 'd come out of one of the big er furniture warehouses and they started up on their own . |
| 19 | They ride … they race … they watch for fun … and they roll up in their thousands … the South Midlands Area Hunt Club got the new season underway at Heythrop near Chipping Norton with a bumper card of 158 horses and 11 races … |
| 20 | SPORTING blue berets and Uzi submachineguns as they hurtle along in their spanking new vehicles , 1,000 Italian soldiers have started to patrol the 300-kilometre ( 190-mile ) road that runs from the Mozambican port of Beira westward to landlocked Zimbabwe . |
| 21 | You know when they go round in their little cars . |
| 22 | The following week they go off to their respective schools , to meet the teachers and the group of children they will be working with . |
| 23 | Sandy , what 's going to happen to these kids when they go back to their dull , boring school laboratories and classes after having seen the vision of your course and what physics can possibly be in the future ? |
| 24 | But after a while , when they got a variety of jobs to do , they , they took off on their own initiative and in fact some of them er without even advising the , the planning department er introduced one or two minor innovations which made life easier for them in regard to the work study man 's er schedule . |
| 25 | Then a snowballing effect takes over , with the larger lumps able to grow larger still because their own gravity would attract other particles as they sweep along in their own orbit . |
| 26 | They went up to their separate wings and I was left to last . |
| 27 | Then they went back to their separate homes , to their men , trying to balance the love and the hate in their hearts . |
| 28 | Unfortunately they went back to their bad old ways during the autumn in the championship , but they have now regained that hungry look which can only spell trouble for their rivals . |
| 29 | When they went out on their own with girls , they tended to fix things for the same evening so as not to spend two nights separated where one would do . |
| 30 | Tina Brown , editor of Vanity Fair , says , ‘ What no one really explained to women , as they went out on their feminist forays , was that they were giving up something . |