Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While police in Strathclyde push on with their high-profile weapons amnesty , Operation Blade , the Lothian force has adopted a lower key approach in keeping with the scale of the problem . |
| 2 | It was strange , too , Anne thought , that everyone got on with their normal lives , in spite of the constant raids and disturbed nights , and had become used to seeing servicemen in so many different uniforms thronging the streets and the cinemas , and in the public houses she was sure , although she had never been in one . |
| 3 | As a growing proportion of an ageing population lived on into their eighties or even nineties , the disparity between their life chances and those of the able-bodied employed became more and more apparent . |
| 4 | Of the widowed and single , by contrast , only two-thirds now lived on in their own homes , usually with their children or lodgers , or very rarely grandchildren , but 12 per cent on their own . |
| 5 | Love ( 68 ) and Couples ( 71 ) clung on to their overnight lead , three shots ahead of host nation Spain . |
| 6 | Walking through Ricky 's woods , Daisy noticed ruby-red sticky buds thrusting out on the chestnuts , although many of the trees still clung on to their shrivelled brown leaves . |
| 7 | Soviet military planners tried to circumvent the treaty cutting conventional forces in Europe , because they thought the cuts agreed on by their foreign ministry went too deep . |
| 8 | This book shows teachers how they can gain a better understanding of what goes on in their own classrooms , and how to use this understanding to guide their learners effectively . |
| 9 | There is fat chance of that for as long as the Government allows the banks to carry on with their grasping one-way policy . |
| 10 | ‘ The whole set up is there and yet the other parties want to carry on with their wasteful plans . ’ |
| 11 | Governors should recognise their power to co-opt on to their working groups , in a non-voting capacity , any member of the local community who could offer specific expertise and skills which they may be lacking . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 13 | But the interpretation from dealers and experts is that motorists are hanging on to their ageing cars instead of buying new ones . |
| 14 | " Nice to hear of someone hanging on to their old family possessions . |
| 15 | Social workers in Orkney , it seems , even ignored the guidelines laid down by their own association . |
| 16 | They had been briefed to report in on their mobile telephone at certain checkpoints en route , and to inform the Ops Room of any suspicious incidents , but their main task was to stop and talk to locals , in order to make their presence known in as friendly a way as possible . |
| 17 | Lyles would like to thank the Stoddard ‘ non-playing ’ Captain , Jimmy Shiels , for stepping in as their late replacement , scoring a creditable 26 points . |
| 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 | In one group of eight , half chose to go in for their first farrowing ; the second time they farrowed , all eight went in . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The family moved on past their old den , over the bank and out of sight . |
| 22 | The airlines clearly believe that they can hang on to their lucrative business market despite evidence from France that high speed trains can have a major impact on travel preferences . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Music began with the beating of a tabor and the whistle of pipes , and then the servers began trooping in in their dozens with great platters of heaped food and jugs of ale . |
| 25 | A long and inconclusive stand-off in the Middle East , when oil prices could probably edge down from their recent $28-odd a barrel , would string out the recession but not deepen it greatly . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 28 | It has been designed to be of value and interest to all grades of nurses who may wish to work through for their own interest and professional development . |
| 29 | Then , en masse , they embraced and staggered off towards their waiting cars and frozen drivers . |
| 30 | 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 . |