Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when I went creaking up the winding back staircase to the two attics and looked in through their respective doors ( ‘ Do n't touch , dear … |
| 2 | Unemployment may mean that people have more leisure time available but lack of money restricts the kind of activities they are able to participate in during their spare time . |
| 3 | In deciding on the balance we consider the situations the students are likely to find themselves in during their future careers . |
| 4 | Lyles would like to thank the Stoddard ‘ non-playing ’ Captain , Jimmy Shiels , for stepping in as their late replacement , scoring a creditable 26 points . |
| 5 | Only the organist in the conference hall seemed to be properly tuned-in , belting out a rendition of Bewitched , bothered and bewildered as the representatives filed in for their annual law and order debate . |
| 6 | If you 'd like more information about Oxfam 's anniversary activities you can write in for their special action pack . |
| 7 | To Agassiz , who became the most eminent anti Darwinian in the USA , these indicated that they were separate creations : animal populations had been created in about their present numbers and in their present locations . |
| 8 | These provide a succession of blooms from mid-June — with feverfew ( Chrysanthemum parthenium ) , goat 's rue ( Galega officinalis ) and lupin ( Lupinus nootkatensis ) — through the summer with tansy ( Tan- acetum vulgare ) and soapwort ( Saponaria officinatis ) , until mid-October when the Michaelmas daisies ( Aster novi-belgii ) finally die down after their two-month flowering period . |
| 9 | The Masai moved from the great river of the north , freely interpreted as the Nile , says the professor in a note , down towards their present location . |
| 10 | And as the dhāmis dance in the sunshine , the tiers of yellow garlands collide with that hair and bounce up and down against their white tunics . |
| 11 | These powerful mountain-dwelling Elves leapt among the Naggarothi assassins and chopped them down with their great axes , saving Caledor 's life . |
| 12 | Next thing we knew , they 'd pushed past us , blagged a cup of tea ( three sugars ) and sat down with their dirty hobnail trainers on the shag-pile . |
| 13 | The novices empty vats of mutton scraps into the dustbins and pack them down with their bare hands . |
| 14 | The French , who would n't set foot on a plage without weighing themselves down with their entire jewellery collection , are good at finding tiny little shorts with nifty frou-frou tops . |
| 15 | ( Given the choice between emulating Mick Jagger or , say , Sid Vicious , only a lunatic would plump for the latter , but in terms of films you might conceivably want to sit and watch , Sid and Nancy win hands down with their blood-splattered , smack-snorting Liebestod . ) |
| 16 | and they 're all going down with their little cards in their hands as they |
| 17 | And the horsemen came riding down with their horned helmets and their lances and William was running , screaming , towards the village , but it was always too far away . |
| 18 | As well as procedures , structural grammar developed the technique of immediate constituent analysis , a technique for cutting a sentence into its immediate constituents , which in turn were broken down into their immediate constituents and so on to the ultimate constituent . |
| 19 | Nonetheless it is important that you learn to break history books down into their original skeletal form . |
| 20 | Re-covering perhaps , or re-painting to fit in with their new circumstances ? |
| 21 | The mice and rats have simple , slender spines mixed in with their ordinary fur . |
| 22 | But you have n't seen how all this ties in with their long-term aims . |
| 23 | No wonder Inspector Blakelock was often so quiet ; that when the police officers came in with their hearty banter he answered only with that slow , gentle smile . |
| 24 | ‘ These people ca n't just blow in with their grand illusions about what they can do in Northern Ireland , with this ‘ big brother ’ attitude that America can solve everyone 's problems . |
| 25 | They were interested in my project because it fitted in with their general aims ; it was in the Green Belt ; and they were short of summer projects . |
| 26 | The therapist 's task is to be sensitive to these differences and work with the parents to devise strategies of change that fit in with their cultural viewpoint . |
| 27 | Certainly the Poole Advertiser are more than happy with the way in which the system has fitted in with their original working methods . |
| 28 | ‘ There was little possibility of the school being able to provide such an area until British Gas stepped in with their generous offer . |
| 29 | In a parallel development , the old fruit and vegetable market was rapidly becoming the Right-On commercial centre where trendy shopkeepers cashed in with their hand-knitted sweaters , ethnic crafts and designer clothing . |
| 30 | they come in with their big |