Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [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 | The Group said that a further 20,000 died as a result of their internment out of an overall total of 150,000 NKVD prisoners . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Members of the Company put their money down on a separate basis for a distinct and limited series of enterprises ; profits from the voyage would be divided in proportion to capital invested , but capital as well as dividends could be withdrawn when the enterprises were complete and all the goods brought back had been sold off . |
| 5 | Cold swimmers demanded their money back at the new Ponteland Leisure Centre after claiming the water was too cold . |
| 6 | In a decision which surprised MPs and investors , the Trade Secretary , Mr Nicholas Ridley , told the Commons that the bulk of the 18,000 investors are to get nearly 90 per cent of their money back in an unprecedented state payout . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Erm , you , a lot of people now talk as though it 's erm , plain sailing or flying for B Sky B and it 's gon na be er , hunky-dory , whereas Anglia Television have just written their stake down to a prenominal amount because they do n't think it 's gon na make , stand a chance of making a profit before the turn of the millennium . |
| 9 | Add the tomatoes and their juice along with the drained pear halves . |
| 10 | Their meeting will probably be nothing more than a courteous request from your boyfriend for your parents ' blessing and approval and it should get their relationship off to a good start ! |
| 11 | And some bidders are expected to buy 2 tractors , so they can get their collection off to a good start . |
| 12 | WEDGWOOD Cricket Club have hit their rivals for six by getting their season off to a blistering start . |
| 13 | I bet it does n't relate to an actual operation in a general hospital because you 've got so many people wanting their rake off in a private one surely ? |
| 14 | It would escape , it would burst , if at all , if ever , only beyond their sight up among the undiscernible stars . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Cranston and Athelstan stabled their horses in a dingy tavern and walked back , forcing their way through to the great prison door . |
| 23 | Seven members had won their way through to the British Finals . |
| 24 | However , unlike Portugal , who showed glimpses of class , the German side tried to bludgeon their way through with an ill-tempered Claus Hammer as their star . |
| 25 | Weeds and other flowers had forced their way up through the cracked paving of the floors . |
| 26 | Clods of earth were tearing their way up through the humped grass . |
| 27 | They had got in through a cellar window at the back and made their way up to a small office on the third landing where , according to Cyril , the sole employee had been there man and boy until he became fossilized and had to be removed feet first from his station . |
| 28 | The stairs were still sound and both boys made their way up to the top floor . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Conversationalists do not operate with the idea that their remarks will find their way on to a permanent record and by definition it is usually conversation which a sociolinguist participant observer is studying , rather than some other more overtly structured kind of talk . |