Example sentences of "in their [adj] [noun] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The son of the legendary Derek and himself a former Gloucestershire player , Shackleton also took 5 for 13 to bowl out Cheshire for 80 in their second innings as they lost to Dorset at Dorchester . |
| 2 | Give your answers in their lowest terms as you learnt to do on page 32 . |
| 3 | In a temple courtyard they came unexpectedly upon a troupe of imperial singers and dancers rehearsing a performance ; garbed in dazzling costumes of gold , red , green and turquoise , the expressionless boys and girls were indistinguishable from one another in their close-fitting bonnets as they performed the mannered steps of a delicate oriental dance to the plaintive . |
| 4 | Although that smaller birth cohort , which now constitutes the young elderly , had lower subsequent mortality rates at early ages than their immediate predecessors , the differences between the two have not been sufficient to eliminate the difference in their absolute numbers as they reach statutory retirement-pension age . |
| 5 | They spoke no Indonesian , even less than ourselves , but talked warmly and directly to us in their tribal language as we did to them in gentle English . |
| 6 | I suspect that [ the ] very absence of quality is what makes such stuff attractive to children , not just because it is easy to read , undemanding , untaxing , but because the simplistic plots and characters leave children free to embroider and enrich the stories in their own way as they read . |
| 7 | So neither the UK parent nor any of its wholly-owned subsidiaries qualify as small companies in their own right as they are members of an ineligible group . |
| 8 | However remote their political views remained from the rest of the electorate , the " Clyde group " remained as secure in their own area as they had ever been . |
| 9 | Moi , " he knew from his reading , was an Annamese term derived from the Chinese word for " savage , " and looking at the dark-skinned , low-browed men , he could see they were of a different racial stock from the Annamese ; they wore only breechclouts that left their haunches naked and they grinned and chattered animatedly in their own language as they moved quickly about their work . |
| 10 | The babies ' dense woolly down is essential in their native Antarctica as they huddle together in freezing temperatures and howling winds . |
| 11 | A quick glance at the steel digital watch on his sinewy wrist and his eyes were washing over her , a hint of malice in their light depths as he dashed her hopes with cruel precision . |