Example sentences of "their [noun pl] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two more of the creatures hovered around the craft , walking over the wings and flashing their teeth at the hysterical passengers . |
| 2 | Furthermore their activities at the rarefied levels of Petrograd and Moscow often had very little impact , either at the time or subsequently , on the masses and on provincial life . |
| 3 | Writing later , in 1937 , J. B. Priestley 's main concern was to stress the Englishness of Chaplin ( though he did concede that the Chaplin symbol was half-French in inspiration ) and he talked of him as being ‘ the greatest humourist since Dickens ’ and of belonging above all to London 's East End and to ‘ the swarms of bright-eyed urchins who are thumbing their noses at the nearest policemen ’ . |
| 4 | The divisions in the Conservative party have already undermined the Government 's position in their negotiations at the intergovernmental conferences . |
| 5 | The group chosen received their prizes at the 1987/8 Awards Ceremony on 2 November 1988 in the Mitchell Theatre , Glasgow , and are pictured above . |
| 6 | And under his guidance countless little boys had learned how to set out their chess-men at the weekly meetings of the Chess Club . |
| 7 | Bernice and Defries were lying on the floor , edging backwards while firing their blasters at the black-robed androids . |
| 8 | The couple worked at the same tasks as their staff , they dressed in the same way , educated their children at the same schools and ate in the same canteen . |
| 9 | But shareholders can still make their investment work for them — by filling their trolleys at the right superstores this weekend . |
| 10 | That 's what H M I P did they got further information from British Coal they met er on Friday er with their colleagues at the National Rivers Authority and it 's from that greater understanding of the application that H M I P have now said that they are prepared to withdraw their objection subject to the imposition of the conditions at the N R A request . |