Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 32 | But so few local breeds had undergone any kind of specialized breeding to improve the stock , and the Western animals had to attempt to catch up with their long-established and highly pampered Oriental counterparts . |
| 33 | However , it is enough to point out that there are similarities between the ‘ overpopulation ’ view and the view that farmers and pastoralists should be educated out of their ignorant , lethargic and traditional ways . |
| 34 | Collective bargaining institutions and rules can not be expected to function adequately when wrenched out of their original context and implanted elsewhere , since they are closely linked with the structure and organisation of political and social power in their own environment or habitat . |
| 35 | I stood staring out of the window into the shifting , cloying mist and wondered about Mathilda 's ghosts trooping back to their worm-eaten beds . |
| 36 | Worst of all , they liked to swell back to their original dimensions in water and this swelling was generally unpredictable and irreversible . |
| 37 | Middlesbrough race tomorrow night for the final week before reverting back to their usual Wednesday evening slot . |
| 38 | Two had been voted out of their top party positions by their district branches and the other two stepped down after pressure from the Central Committee . |
| 39 | Ramblers and many of the climbers flower on year-old wood : new stems grow out to their full length one year — and in the more vigorous kinds , this may be very long indeed — and then bear bloom the following year . |
| 40 | Like so many boys who had come out of their National Service I had changed . |
| 41 | The arch-Kinnockites in the Tribune Group have shifted entirely into John Smith 's camp and are thus considered to have come out in their true colours as right-wingers . |
| 42 | If they witness something frightening , if they see someone messing up at school or losing friends , they 'll show concern , distance themselves from anything really threatening , enjoy a little frisson of fear and then slip back towards their old habits . |
| 43 | It is as though , in literary terms , the peasant world , defined by neo-realism , and the disembodied , technocratic environments of the neo-avant-garde had been lifted out of their historical context and plastered together in a sharply disjunctive collage . |
| 44 | A statement such as ‘ That makes me feel very angry/unhappy/sad/upset when you do that ’ rather than immediately shouting at the child enables parents to stand back from their immediate emotional reactions and also teach the child awareness of other people 's feelings . |
| 45 | That 's it , my short movie is complete , and , once the actors and backgrounds have been sorted out in their respective editors , it only takes a matter of ten minutes to assemble the final movie . |
| 46 | B Squadron then moved out to their rear base at Bir Fascia , 200 miles to the west . |
| 47 | ‘ Few human geographers seem willing to come out of their national shells and take the wider view which would enable them to understand what is going on within their own countries ’ ( Thrift , 1986 , 62 ) . |
| 48 | In the modern industrial world , more and more people are feeling a need to find out about their immediate and distant past , and this is likely to increase in the future . |
| 49 | ‘ Smashed out of their bloody boxes as usual . ’ |
| 50 | Fewer than 10 per cent of house-buyers have full professional surveys carried out on their prospective homes , and only 15 per cent have a mini-survey carried out , according to Britain 's biggest estate agent . |
| 51 | In an editorial on 2 November 1985 , headlined ‘ Unfinished Business ’ , it asked ‘ whether the structures and institutions of British life have been so shaken by six years of Mrs Thatcher that they can no longer fall back into their old ways — or whether more shaking is needed ? ’ |
| 52 | When he takes his foot off the pedal again , the revs will fall back to their preset level again . |
| 53 | In contrast , in the European-style cities of east and central Africa such as Nairobi , Lusaka and Harare , the informals have frequently been hounded out of their preferred locations . |
| 54 | A great cheer rang out as Cowdray , the home team , came on in their orange shirts . |
| 55 | The shapely brunette , whose job was to help Davies kick his heroin and cocaine addiction and keep him on the straight and narrow , was turned on by their wild romps . |
| 56 | Many claim to have had these near death ; floating near the ceiling while looking down at their dying ( or clinically dead ) physical frames . |
| 57 | Looking down at their still and silent master , the two dogs began to slink nearer until they lay down beside him , noses resting on his body . |
| 58 | The ( ahem ) mirror-smooth coffee-table sheen of the Mondays ' ‘ Yes Please ’ conjures up little but complacency and water-treading : Shaun and co were once kings of the dirty , demonic rhythmscape , now the New FADs have moved in on their old manor and staked whole new claims in the still fertile soil of rock-dance crossover . |
| 59 | The Glen came down from their right turgid and fast , shut in by hills on either side , round the rim of the Cheviots and the great curving flank of Yeavering Bell , and across their front to empty itself into the Till . |
| 60 | The Reagan crowd ran against the government and against Sacramento and they came in on their white horses and railed against the Legislature . |