Example sentences of "and their [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many riders we hear about seem unjustifiably timid about taking themselves and their horses off across the countryside . |
| 2 | Add the tomatoes and their juice along with the drained pear halves . |
| 3 | Pritchard and one corporal then nipped back across the open roadway to drop a 10lb charge between two tugs moored in the basin , and their dash back to the hut , a mere 60 yards or less from the approaching enemy , was achieved without mishap . |
| 4 | Charles was acting quite legally in initiating the quo warranto proceedings against borough charters , and his primary aim appears not so much to achieve royal control over the borough electorate — boroughs which did not return MPs were also subject to attack — but rather to drive Nonconformists and their sympathisers out of the local magistracy and to secure the empanelment of juries who would be prepared to act against the Dissenters . |
| 5 | Special trains were chartered to transport 2,000 employees and their families down to the gleaming new plant from Ford 's Trafford Park factory in Manchester which was in the process of closing . |
| 6 | The Working Women 's Charter , endorsed by the Women 's TUC in 1975 , put issues such as childcare , nurseries , abortion , maternity and paternity leave , women 's educational opportunity and their health on to the union agenda . |
| 7 | It is dispersals of this People 's University of books bequeathed by the Victorians and their successors up to the postwar years that are the real reason for the library 's losing its soul , as Richard Hoggart so aptly put it . |
| 8 | He was taking a group of his own men plus dogs and their handlers out to the helicopter base where he could brief them together with the pilots . |