Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't fair , just or right for the Signora to come before the hour appointed ; she should have been admitted by Giovanna herself and the keys should have remained hanging on their appointed hook ; the other set being in the pocket of Giovanna 's overall from which she now drew them and held them up making it clear that they would be relinquished only upon her death and then only into the hands of Signor Kettering . |
| 2 | Similarly , our modern managers bring on their favoured assistants , introduce them to the secrets of the filofax and the business lunch , and teach them how to influence important people . |
| 3 | They often do this by letting out or bringing in their mooring line , so keep an eye on them to see which direction they move it in , if at all . |
| 4 | Further doubts have been raised about the future of the THORP reprocessing plant at Sellafield by the Japanese authorities ' decision to abandon plutonium transports by sea [ see above ] and to scale down their nuclear-energy programme . |
| 5 | Since the leu is not yet convertible , shopkeepers have no choice but to pass on their hard-currency costs to the customers . |
| 6 | For he was no landed gentleman like the Larks and the Covington-Pyms who 'd go to any lengths to pass on their noble names . |
| 7 | These provide an opportunity for ward staff to obtain guidance on how best to pass on their clinical expertise in an effective way . |
| 8 | Passes played into space there created a two-goal , first-half deficit , which the patient patterns Everton built down their right flank ultimately merited to cancel : a team , in fact , of two halves . |
| 9 | To only a few had he been the devil who gloated over their private grief . |
| 10 | Okawi had prepared the hunting canoes and was now praying over their steep sides . |
| 11 | Raising his voice , he shouted over their rising clamour . |
| 12 | The result was a certain pragmatic consensus which glossed over their ideological differences in favour of meeting local ‘ needs ’ and an emphasis on process at the expense of content and direction . |
| 13 | Drastic alterations might be made to eligibility criteria , assessments either not carried out or not acted upon , and the sight of all those solicitors that the SSI is so worried about sharpening their quills and dusting off their judicial review procedures . |
| 14 | However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development plc . |
| 15 | However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development Plc . |
| 16 | However , virtually all the proposed HDTV standards mean that consumers will have to write off their existing televisions and buy new sets in order to receive HDTV . |
| 17 | So some banks will be forced to rely on retained earnings for shoring up their capital-adequacy ratios — unless they are ready to put up with a much slower growth in assets ( which few seem prepared to do ) . |
| 18 | A couple whose baby was a victim of cot death are opening up their stately home to raise money for research . |
| 19 | People who had been out together at Castle Menzies , then on down to the Reel of Ballechin , conversed steadily , opening up their private problems to each other with a freedom well beyond the usual . |
| 20 | He and his countrymen , including General Vo Nguyen Giap , a vice-president of Vietnam , drew up their national plan faster than any of the 30 or so nations that have outlined similar strategies for environmental recovery . |
| 21 | They bounced up their little list |
| 22 | Taking these 12 pollsters ' December 1991 GDP forecasts , we have added up their absolute forecasting errors ( ie , ignoring whether it is plus or minus ) for each of the seven economies . |
| 23 | In the north of the Border shires , along the flanks of low hills such as the Eildons , medieval monastic establishments built up their extensive sheep runs , denuding the cover of the hills and destabilizing the soil . |
| 24 | Multinational corporations build up their global networks through direct foreign investment , that is , by building factories and warehouses in foreign countries and taking over or establishing companies in them . |
| 25 | Many large companies acquire overseas subsidiaries and others build up their overseas interests internally from retained earnings and local borrowings . |
| 26 | The information included in can be exploited by agents to tighten up their subjective prediction for . |
| 27 | The left wing of General von Bulow 's Second Army mounted a bayonet attack on Foch 's forces at dawn on 5 September , capturing the French outposts and driving back their advance units . |
| 28 | In Shakespeare 's case , only as plays moved out their popular medium of production to quarto , and finally inscribed in the Folio , do the plays become textually established in ‘ final versions ’ used to undertake theoretically complex investigation . |
| 29 | But unions at Corporate Jets point out they have no such assurances and are anxious to have a meeting with Raytheon to find out their long-term plans . |
| 30 | In an entry for October 1925 he states his determination to find out their full extent , and to speak out against them ( Travels , 60 ) . |