Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even those who slim right down to their goal weight will always find parts they wish were even slimmer ! |
| 2 | They had finally calmed down , smiled sheepishly — albeit damply — at one another , and Joanna had demanded the whole story , from Isabel 's meeting with Guy right down to their arrival at Ashby Chase . |
| 3 | In the rest of this chapter we shall drop the assumption that prices are fully flexible and examine the implications of assuming that they are either fixed or at least move only slowly to their equilibrium values . |
| 4 | It can be a planning tool for the library management , a statement of purpose for the board or governing body , and a source of information for library users — though on the last point some libraries may find it politic not to make known priorities so openly to their public . |
| 5 | So the spring flowers which bloom at the same time each year , and the swifts and swallows which return so precisely to their nest sites , are clearly responding to a more dependable guide . |
| 6 | An attempt was made in Parliament to restrict the power to intercept for security reasons to cases where this was necessary for the defence of the realm or to prevent subversion , terrorism , or espionage — still wider than the guidelines but much closer to their spirit than the statute . |
| 7 | In the wild , fungi are part of the ‘ death and decay ’ complex whereby tissues of animal and plant origin are broken down biologically to their component nitrogenous and other chemical constituents . |
| 8 | But my other commitments prevent me from turning up to their committee meetings now so erm I 'm sort of stepping back on to I 'm just on to their mailing list . |
| 9 | This is not only to their credit , but to the credit also of the staff of the choir schools , whose dedication ensures that such schools will surely continue to have a special place in our educational system . |
| 10 | In assessing materiality in connection with convertible securities , consideration should be given not only to their carrying amount but also to the implications of conversion . |
| 11 | This shrub bed was a full sixty yards from where they now stood , but just over half that distance from the treeline away over to their left . |
| 12 | Others were clearly no longer up to their profession . |
| 13 | Primary school teachers contribute most directly to their school reports , find the LEA guidelines for writing the report most useful and think their reports most judgmental , secondary teachers again least on all these items . |
| 14 | Thus presenting a most romantic picture as they were driven smartly away to their wedding-breakfast amid a flurry of good wishes and a merry ringing of bells . |
| 15 | The objection made to such settlements was more usually to their artificiality . |
| 16 | After a period under the Domenicans , the Poor Clares returned once more to their convent but the buildings then suffered from the fire in the Old Town in 1689 . |
| 17 | With machinery being used more and more on the farms , the village has seen the number of people employed on the land drastically fall , and is now one of many with commuters travelling further afield to their place of employment . |
| 18 | Will be passed on , but in this instance they all need to be shown how to work it , yes , mhm , so that concerned me a little bit , apparently because they were holding the mike right up to their mouth and it was distorting terribly what 's going on up there |
| 19 | I boarded an elevator and shot up alone to their office on the 32nd floor . |
| 20 | only had sixty odd quid , used his credit card to put it through , well now it all comes up , all the stuff comes up onto on display now about the credit , it goes straight through to their account see if there 's money there |
| 21 | Paula and Sally took her straight up to their bedroom . |
| 22 | They screwed the caps back on to their thermos flasks , and jammed down the lids of their now empty plastic sandwich containers . |
| 23 | Some of the more irresponsible youths had tried to set fire to the building but somehow it did not catch and went out much to their disappointment ! |
| 24 | It 'll be harder to get to the villa in some respects because Val and John , Val , Val 's husband 's retiring in July , he suffers with his dreadful headache , and they 're going to spend ninety per cent of their time in Spain , but she did say whenever I want to go , as long as I let them know they 'll come home cos they 're gon na buy a house in Chesterfield and er she said whenever we wan na go , they 'll come back over to their house in Chesterfield , so , we |
| 25 | Sometimes , over their early morning cup of tea , Boy would tell the man about what he had watched , in the way that people often like to describe the highlights of their working day once they get back home to their partner . |
| 26 | But if such a retort is both meaningful and non-trivial , then surely so is the statement ( that might be made , for example , in reply to a request for information from a third person ) that " the chair " being talked about — the " posited chair " — is not fictional , i.e. that it actually exists , even though those who take this statement on trust might find out otherwise to their cost . |
| 27 | The tone of his detractors is modified , however , by those who fear that without Birt the right wing of the Conservative party would bring in a regime even less to their taste . |
| 28 | Our passing was n't up to their standard ( ! ) and we kept giving it away too often . |
| 29 | In the same way , the old horsemen believed that the milt and the frog 's or toad 's bone contributed almost wholly to their skill in drawing or jading their horses . |
| 30 | I I would not go out there on to their property without letting them have knowledge that I was coming to their property . |