Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love ( 68 ) and Couples ( 71 ) clung on to their overnight lead , three shots ahead of host nation Spain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But the interpretation from dealers and experts is that motorists are hanging on to their ageing cars instead of buying new ones . |
| 5 | " Nice to hear of someone hanging on to their old family possessions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ This is the moment when the bride and groom slip off to their chosen hideaway for a little privacy . |
| 9 | At the age of 20 , Gedge was willing to placate his parents by taking on such a squalid job , but just a few years later , he was more than prepared to stand up to their well-intentioned pressure . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Worst of all , they liked to swell back to their original dimensions in water and this swelling was generally unpredictable and irreversible . |
| 12 | Middlesbrough race tomorrow night for the final week before reverting back to their usual Wednesday evening slot . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | B Squadron then moved out to their rear base at Bir Fascia , 200 miles to the west . |
| 15 | When he takes his foot off the pedal again , the revs will fall back to their preset level again . |
| 16 | Not all British private-eye stories match up to their American counterparts , but it can be done . |
| 17 | For the first time this year , Messrs Cronin and Co will be looking up to their opposite numbers and it will be essential that both blockers and sweepers are doing their job . |
| 18 | When they began to move the flow of blood came back to their stiffened limbs and they felt better . |
| 19 | He had married late , a buxom research scientist from Cambridge twenty years his junior , and drove back to their modern flat on the outskirts of the city each night in his Jaguar — his chief extravagance frequently late , but seldom too late to bear her off to their local pub . |
| 20 | In this campaign too — the battle of the River Ebro — the government forces had the initial advantage of surprise , but their much depleted physical and military strength made them unable to turn it to their permanent advantage and they were eventually pushed back to their original positions . |
| 21 | Paul and Malcolm Bream first spent time exploring possible sources of voluntary funding , and then saw what might be done with the local authority , but have now turned back to their original search for their own place . |
| 22 | These cells give a large excitatory response to the onset of a small spot of one wavelength shone on to their receptive field centres and a much smaller response to a much larger spot . |
| 23 | Soozi explains that if you place crystals close to you , your body will tune in to their vigorous vibrational frequency and be energised and healed . |
| 24 | In these respects , it can certainly be claimed that the polytechnics have by and large measured up to their original specification . |
| 25 | At the conclusion of The Return of the King , the third of the three books — Tolkien always denied they were a trilogy — Frodo and his friends ride back to their lost land , to discover that ‘ they cared about it more than any other place in the world ’ , though its cottages and gardens have been laid waste and replaced by ugly new houses and factories belching smoke ; and they defeat the ruffians who had defiled it and resume the kingdom of little men . |
| 26 | Then , as soon as they were given access to each other , and also to the small molecules needed as raw materials , in water , both got back to their old tricks even though they were no longer in a living cell but in a test tube . |
| 27 | They 're going back to their big tomes here . |
| 28 | Going back to their old ground are John Gorman , Terry Fenwick and John Moncur . |
| 29 | Some urban families do still look back to their rural roots ; while they may never have lived in the areas from which their ancestors originally came , they may make regular visits to the furusato and bring up their children to do likewise . |
| 30 | JOHN PRENN and Willie Boone , both former world champions , lived up to their second-place seedings in this year 's Lacoste British Open doubles rackets championships at Queen 's Club , with a 15-1 , 15-9 , 15-7 , 5-15 , 15-0 victory over Terry Whatley and Giles Palmer , writes Dudley Macdonald . |