Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work of different mosaicists might be visible here , so hinting at their number and therefore the probable diversity of subsequent developments . |
| 2 | It 's not all going according to plan , however , and most days they wind up literally singing for their supper . |
| 3 | The match was a hard-fought contest and after much cheating on their part , the prisoners ran out 3–0 victors with a doubtful hat-trick by Rudolph Hess . |
| 4 | If you 've got a question , shout , shout out to start you on and that start up encourages cos it so often happens yeah bop bop bop bop bop and somebody is still basically looking for their rucksack while all the rest are up the , half way up the mountain . |
| 5 | they were only going on their reputation |
| 6 | The many Harvard dealers who introduced themselves : " This is … from Harvard Securities in the City of London " were perhaps sharing in their company 's wishful thinking . |
| 7 | One consequence in industrial terms was the greater bargaining power of professional and white-collar groups , especially focusing on their trade unions as during the ‘ winter of discontent ’ , able to use their bargaining muscle to claim a growing share of the national income for themselves without much compensation in manufacturing or investment . |
| 8 | For all our participants , and undoubtedly for many of this age-group , a central issue that is constantly recurring in their interpretation of the day-to-day practices they encounter in their social lives is the extent to which they are recognized as persons of independent dignity and standing . |
| 9 | Endill and Mould spent most of their time together working on their plan . |
| 10 | As Derek Fraser has suggested , they were of four main types : ‘ a fear of social revolution , a humanitarian concern for suffering , a desire to improve the moral tone of the recipients and a satisfaction of some psychological or social need ’ , i.e. a desire for the confirmation of social status and superiority which came from giving to those poorer than oneself , and perhaps basking in their gratitude . |
| 11 | My friends are already applying for their summer jobs . |
| 12 | Adult women will have the unappealing choice between rejecting women 's language and so becoming ‘ less than a woman ’ , or embracing it and thus acquiescing in their inferiority — becoming ‘ less than a person ’ . |
| 13 | The user is intended to behave exactly according to their instruction . |
| 14 | It is a treadmill , but if an artist is n't prepared to do it , there are two or three hundred others just waiting for their chance . |
| 15 | The little card box with its pathetic collection of pre-written endearments , carefully labelled and dated in pencil , just waiting for their turn . |
| 16 | They were just getting into their stride when they received an invitation from Lila to come to her place . |
| 17 | I think that they are only just getting into their stride on this particular issue , because some years ago we had flooding in Worthing , quite severe flooding , so every application went to the Southern Water Authority and we never got back no , you ca n't develop on that area and it was , it was very difficult . |
| 18 | However , local authorities have had a duty , since 1968 , to provide adequate sites for gipsies normally resorting to their area and , where they have done so to the satisfaction of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment , they have criminal powers to remove illegal campers . |
| 19 | There were few birds , only small groups of tysties feeding near the shore , the newly fledged youngsters in grey and white plumage , and the adults already moulting into their winter shades of grey . |
| 20 | And it was presumably owing to their encouragement that in the 1540s Crecquillon began to compose chansons and Clemens and Gombert increased their production from a trickle to a flood . |
| 21 | In at least one study transformed cells harbouring mutant p53 and ras genes were capable of growing in syngeneic laboratory animals , eventually leading to their death . |
| 22 | The strategies adopted for the closures of Powick , Banstead and Exminster were at once puzzling in their diversity . |
| 23 | Sitting in Camden 's World 's End pub , Debbie and fellow Curve axe-wielder , Alex Mitchell are still recovering from their appearance at this year 's Glastonbury festival . |
| 24 | The children were apprehensive , none more so than the newcomers who were still struggling with their English and were generally mystified by events . |
| 25 | Davidoff et al have shown that the Beau Ideal was underpinned by a morality of mutual duty and service , although the benefits and freedom which each participant drew from such an arrangement varied directly according to their position in the hierarchy . |
| 26 | There is substantial evidence that people who have migrated to Britain quite commonly send sums of money on a regular basis to assist relatives still living in their country of origin . |
| 27 | But those incidents involved well-aggravated piranhas , not those calmly swimming in their home stream . |
| 28 | And it can get awkward when people take things too Literally — you say , ‘ Hello , how are you ? ’ and twenty minutes later you 're still listening to their philosophy of life . |
| 29 | Some bananas were still lying outside their crate . |
| 30 | When he had completed the tape , he had absorbed a required unit of work , and subsequent testing generally demonstrated that students were rapidly improving in their grasp of essential material , as well as responding positively to this method of instruction . |