Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GP Rod Houseman , a gynaecology specialist , says some Caesareans are essential , but if women want to avoid one if they can they should make their wishes known at the start of their pregnancy . |
| 2 | The case concerned the tax liability of teachers employed at Malvern College , a fee-paying school , under a concessionary fees scheme which allowed members of the staff of the school to have their sons educated at the school at 20 per cent of the fees charged to the public . |
| 3 | Associated with it is a pair of snakes , their heads directed at the armpits . |
| 4 | The group who face the most difficulty getting adequately trained are women doctors , and they made their voices heard at the conference despite the organisers admitting with startling candour that they had not anticipated that this issue would arise . |
| 5 | Below us rows of lads have put their winklepickers up on the backs of the seats , their feet crossed at the ankles , perching like a flock of shiny blackbirds with pointed wings . |
| 6 | The Bank , however , does regularly review its list of banks who are eligible to have their bills rediscounted at the Bank of England and it is arguable that the credit risk of many UK corporates is lower than some of the banks on that list . |
| 7 | I jumped up on to my bunk and looked at the others sitting around playing cards , arguing with each other or lying on their beds staring at the ceiling . |
| 8 | As usual , Queen 's have n't their sorrows to seek at the start of a new season while they wait to see who will turn up for the new University term . |
| 9 | This is how the growing tribe of American Indian fanatics like to let their feathers fly at the weekends . |
| 10 | When Prince and his band played their after-hours show at the Camden Palace on Cat 's birthday , Prince gave her a cake with 26 candles on , with the message ‘ Happy Birthday Darling ’ in chocolate icing . |
| 11 | Their townsfolk sneered at the Maclean chiefs ' rawhide brogans and bare knees , kilted tartans and dyed linens . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , their souls met at the weekend in Rick 's Cafe Americain , where men dressed in crisp linen suits drank bourbon beneath whispering ceiling fans under the watchful eye of a Moroccan inspector of police . |
| 13 | So they stood and their hands clasped at the baggage rack above their heads , and Millet saw the eyes of a fellow traveller flit to the girl 's features as if they were staring at those magazines on the high shelf behind the newsagent 's counter . |
| 14 | As I read the stated case there was no question of the taxpayers being entitled to have their children educated at the school . |
| 15 | For many years the school has run a concessionary scheme under which members of the staff are entitled to have their children educated at the school on payment of only one-fifth of the sum charged to members of the public . |
| 16 | In the Republic , slowed down by the roads , they took a detour , turned left at Manorhamilton , followed the Bonet river , peeped at the old great mansions in the trees , dreamed up a whole world of the madly rich lurking in this lovely countryside , their children educated at the Convent of the Little Daughters of the Wealthy which they placed on Inisfree , serenely sited on the gleaming waters of Lough Gill . |
| 17 | Under ordinary border conditions they often become stunted and their leaves burned at the edges because they are too dry , so the only place in which they can be grown properly is a bog garden . |
| 18 | The final show in the Inspirals ' foray into Finland takes place under clouded skies , on an enormo stage , in front of a field of fully of happily drunk hippy kids who , when they walk on stage , appear to be principally interested in fighting each other , or lying on their backs staring at the clouds . |
| 19 | They were both lying on their backs staring at the top of the cavity . |
| 20 | So I do n't know where they did get their photographs taken at the finish . |