Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a fiery encounter , he claimed that on five occasions his players were grabbed by the testicles and , on more than one occasion , were spat on by their opponents . |
| 2 | Minpins from all over the forest had flown in on their birds to cheer the young hero , and all the branches and twigs of the great tree were crowded with tiny people . |
| 3 | Jayhawk and Defiant were the first , both entered in the January trials and then retired as the newer America and Kanza were flown in from their builders in Rhode Island . |
| 4 | As I have already hinted , there had always been a biochemical puzzle about how proteins or RNA might work in these transfer experiments , because all such large molecules are rapidly degraded in the gut and broken down into their component amino or nucleic acids before being taken into the general metabolism of the recipient . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fermentation of organic matter by gut micro-orgamisms is mediated by a number of interdependent reactions in which complex polymers are first broken down to their constituent monomers by hydrolytic enzymes synthesised by the bacteria . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Georgina 's family have travelled down from their home in Gloucester to be at their daughter 's bedside . |
| 8 | He proceeded to remind her verbally as she followed him sheepishly out through the dining-room to a wide archway that led to the terrace , though she did n't need this painful reminder of the way they 'd given in to their wild passion every evening in Seville . |
| 9 | Not always content to watch from the sidelines , some of them have joined in with their more confident brand of anti-lesbianism . |
| 10 | I wanted to be accepted by those around me , and so joined in with their stories of soldiering , sex and drinking prowess . |
| 11 | Although he was a yearling and still below full weight , he had not the harassed look of most " outskirters " — that is , the rank-and-file of ordinary rabbits in their first year who , lacking either aristocratic parentage or unusual size and strength , get sat on by their elders and live as best they can often in the open — on the edge of their warren . |
| 12 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 13 | Nevertheless Fraser McLuskey 's account of air crashes does suggest that the Maquis or the local French population in general would soon have known of planes which had come down in their territory , and that the Germans , when told of wrecks , did in fact bury the crews in identifiable graves . |
| 14 | He and his wife , Carole , had sat down with their business adviser and decided they needed to get away from traditional crops and livestock . |
| 15 | The judges noted that some enticing covers were let down by their contents , and vice versa , but that ‘ accountability and imagination do not demand a high budget ’ . |
| 16 | Have you ever been speaking to someone , perhaps an attractive member of the opposite sex , when , without thinking , you 've looked down at their mouth ? |
| 17 | The young woman had visited both the museum and the castle before and had looked down from their heights onto the epidemic of streets below , between the top of the hill and the broad curve of the Bay . |
| 18 | They were carried along on their gently-moving conveyor belt at a speed of about one and a half kilometres an hour , while they made determinations of the viscosity of the lava beneath the rubbly crust , and eventually hopped off again , none the worse for wear . |
| 19 | If the Night Goblin unit is routed then the Fanatics are carried along with their companions . |
| 20 | These Fanatics remain hidden , carried along by their fellows , until they are ready to be pushed out towards the enemy . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the parents of the 1920s were the children of the 1900s and the inhibitions of that more rigid decade were carried over into their parenthood . |
| 22 | Another notable seizure made by Vigilant was as a result of an operation in 1969 , initiated by the Investigation Branch who had been tipped off by their Dutch colleagues that a suspected smuggling vessel had left Flushing bound for the Kent coast . |
| 23 | Some thing like that with er the two kids that were mixed up at their birth . |
| 24 | Oh I get mixed up with their ages . |
| 25 | Meanwhile state-owned energy monopolies have come up with their own solution to generating more electricity without angering local environmentalists : moving their power stations to Eastern Europe . |
| 26 | The women weeping over an open coffin in a Rowlandson drawing of c.1760 would have had more reason for grief had the merchandise not come up to their expectations ( Col. 6 ) . |
| 27 | And the water 's high at the moment because we 've had so much rain , so it 's come up around their roots . ’ |
| 28 | Such was the slowness and enclosedness of all her movements that the girls instinctively looked up from their school books to follow her closely . |
| 29 | On the other hand , there are philistines who apparently believe that all new ideas , no matter how subtle , can be conveyed in the terms they happened to have picked up at their mother 's knee , and reject any attempt to expand the language into areas beyond the nursery . |
| 30 | In fact , such sounds may be picked up in their whiskers , resonating like guitar strings , rather than by their ears . |