Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I thought that I 'd let all you people who are n't fortunate enough to get the yorkshire evening post ( YEP ) know what 's going on in their weekly United Insight column . |
| 32 | Many counties had drawn on their reserves to keep rate increases down in their own election year of 1989 . |
| 33 | But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter . |
| 34 | They are far too wrapped up in their own small struggles to worry overmuch about what others are doing and why . |
| 35 | Most people are too wrapped up in their own lives to be bothered that other people 's freedoms and rights are being infringed , until it happens to them , and then it 's too late . ’ |
| 36 | It may prove difficult because individuals may not be able to see the whole of the organisation since they are so wrapped up in their own specialised part of it . |
| 37 | The ‘ Blanco script ’ — with its romance , riddles and emotion — captured the imagination of the public who turned up in their thousands to bid him farewell in his first and last Championship final . |
| 38 | another Central South success story this year has been the form of Gloucestershire racing trainer David Nicholson … yesterday he opened his new stables at Ford for the very first time and racing folk turned up in their thousands |
| 39 | Now , as the party fodder turned up in their glittering clothes , I began to see that Eva was using the evening not as a celebration but as her launch into London . |
| 40 | Might have been more restful than running round like a lunatic stuffing pâté de foie gras into the undeserving old ghouls who turned up in their dozens today . ’ |
| 41 | And as they were fretting about it being nicked , it turned up in their own backyard . |
| 42 | Although these are intended to complement written work , they almost always stand up in their own right . |
| 43 | In Wales , the crowds turned out in their thousands to greet their new Princess , and they were not disappointed |
| 44 | As a longer-term insurance , the report proposes creating seed banks of crop species that could be wiped out in their existing locations as a result of global warming . |
| 45 | People with faces like unworked mahogany stand around in their tunic-like costume and ill-fitting boots with turned up toes . |
| 46 | Scottish Members raised in the House the problems faced by Scotland and clearly indentified the terrible damage that the poll tax was doing to the people of Scotland , but the Government continued to blunder on in their merry way . |
| 47 | From the internationally known names — such as press secretary Marlin Fitzwater — to anonymous civil servants , they will be packing their bags and moving on in their hundreds . |
| 48 | The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes . |
| 49 | For the first time for a long while , Corbett felt wanted and warmed to these simple yet sophisticated men so bound up in their own routine of prayer , work and study that they regarded any visitor as a visible sign of God 's grace . |
| 50 | Lit up in their various colours against a white wall they can look spectacular ; unlit they take on an almost sculptural quality . |
| 51 | In contrast to the earlier stages of the debate , the concern was to make the common curriculum more than the ‘ basics ’ ( something not altogether borne out in their subsequent pronouncements ) . |
| 52 | Some drive back in their own cars . |
| 53 | Fishermen would repair to the woods to cut hazel and withies to make or mend their pots , then set out in their small boats to their chosen ‘ grounds ’ to drop the pots . |
| 54 | She hung around in their sub-hippy world , camouflaged , but never feeling she belonged . |
| 55 | For Bob and Tessa 's house Jannie projected all the reconstruction and improvement which she and John had never found either money or energy enough to carry out in their own . |
| 56 | Then gradually slip the open bag into the tank , and allow the fish to swim out in their own time . |
| 57 | SPORTING blue berets and Uzi submachineguns as they hurtle along in their spanking new vehicles , 1,000 Italian soldiers have started to patrol the 300-kilometre ( 190-mile ) road that runs from the Mozambican port of Beira westward to landlocked Zimbabwe . |
| 58 | It was with a certain amount of satisfaction that they settled down in their own kitchen and discussed their financial situation . |
| 59 | My pair of Birchirs have now settled down in their new home and are feeding very well on a plentiful supply of garden worms . |
| 60 | They ride … they race … they watch for fun … and they roll up in their thousands … the South Midlands Area Hunt Club got the new season underway at Heythrop near Chipping Norton with a bumper card of 158 horses and 11 races … |