Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wo n't be ready till next season , but I 'm really going to knock their eyes out with this fellow . ’ |
| 2 | Practice was largely limited to horses by the peculiar constitution of the College , whereby subscribers of the richer sort sent their animals in for free treatment and received drugs at half-price . |
| 3 | Wardens in tin helmets poked their noses out of sandbagged alarm posts to watch Charles and his CO striding by . |
| 4 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 5 | Most of Yugoslavia 's main cities can trace their origins back to Roman foundation or , where earlier settlements can be identified , to a revival of activity in Roman times . |
| 6 | Ca n't , ca n't please their youngsters out of thirty pound shirts |
| 7 | ‘ Happy Game ’ , for instance , has a chorus about celebrating the end of an unhappy relationship , a state of affairs that in ‘ Immigrants … ’ days would have seen the band crying their guitars out at high speed for three minutes or so . |
| 8 | He remembered all the nights when his sisters had sat at the end of his bed and sobbed their hearts out over some man . |
| 9 | Under the guise of meeting some of its obligations due to the Australian government under its ‘ partnership for development programme ’ — where foreign multi-nationals must reinvest some of their profits back into Australian industry — Sun Microsystems Inc has all but embraced its two technology pariahs , X-terminals and the Motif interface . |
| 10 | Unfortunately it is also associated with an ‘ illusion of competence ’ effect which leads those employing interviews to value the quality of their decisions out of all proportion to their probable true worth . |
| 11 | So you 'd leave the Trust Law in existence , so you would n't call cause a total legal revolution , but you would impose on that a spy of legal requirements which if trusts wish to through Trust Law enhance , they could , but they h all have to bring their agreements up to that minimum ? |
| 12 | Helping these children to adapt to their environment is therefore important , and putting their symptoms down to poor mothering , without any evidence , is irresponsible and potentially damaging . |
| 13 | My constituent concludes : ’ The present government wants education standards to be improved but in the case of students , it will only result again in the rich' families being able to afford to send their children on to further education . |
| 14 | She thought of it first when she spent her two nights on the Embankment , which was littered as soon as dark fell with sad , wild men and women stuffing bread into their mouths out of brown paper bags or staring at the barges on the river . |
| 15 | Even the most skeletal patients thrust their chests out for medical inspection in the last block on the right : a scant fifteen minutes earlier they were flat on the floor of the Inhalationsraum . |
| 16 | In order to economise , the officers of some parishes put their workhouses out to private contract ; this practice — an early example of privatisation — was known as ‘ farming the poor ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ They have ability to win the ball in set-piece situations and then set their backs off with real speed . |
| 18 | Large firms generally move their protégés around from one department to another — a very satisfactory arrangement . |