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 | Christie … of course and two more Redgrave and Pinsent the Olympic rowers who this week started their build up for the next games … yes … in four years time … they 're our special guests in this week 's Friday Feature |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | LONDON TOWERS caught Carlsberg League champions Roland Kingston with their guard down for the second time this season by defeating them 103-97 at the Michael Sobell Centre , Islington , on Sunday night . |
| 7 | Add the tomatoes and their juice along with the drained pear halves . |
| 8 | Loyal to their oath down to the last breath , the 6th Army , under the exemplary leadership of General Field Marshal Paulus , succumbed to the superior force of the enemy and the unfavourable conditions . |
| 9 | But what er what happened is when they rebuilt this building in the fifteenth century the masons found these and reused them reset them inside because they 'd lost their significance in over the three hundred years , so but they were useful structural er things . |
| 10 | It would escape , it would burst , if at all , if ever , only beyond their sight up among the undiscernible stars . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The older colleges , which traced their history back to the eighteenth century 's ‘ dissenting academies ’ had not kept the high standing they had then enjoyed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They 've won their way through to the first round of the FA Cup where they 'll be away to West Bromwich Albion . |
| 20 | Cranston and Athelstan stabled their horses in a dingy tavern and walked back , forcing their way through to the great prison door . |
| 21 | Seven members had won their way through to the British Finals . |
| 22 | Weeds and other flowers had forced their way up through the cracked paving of the floors . |
| 23 | Clods of earth were tearing their way up through the humped grass . |
| 24 | The stairs were still sound and both boys made their way up to the top floor . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ( 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 . ) |
| 30 | Even where the entrances were very well hidden by ploughing and cultivation , the rabbits somehow found their way back to the selfsame underground burrows their predecessors had used for generations . |