Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're desperately trying to speak to somebody and they 're out of the office , I do n't know , they 're just not there , you can camp on to their handset even though you just get ringing . |
| 2 | So it 's not engaged , but you can still camp on to their handset , basically the computer , tell them when it 's next used . |
| 3 | But his handling of the industry portfolio incurred the wrath of industry leaders who appear to have won the president over to their side ( New Scientist 10 March , p 646 ) . |
| 4 | Moreover , he would not be in the same position as the rest of us to cotton on to their use . |
| 5 | Darlington have a tough run in to their league programme and are in desperate need of points to stay in division one of the North-Eastern League . |
| 6 | They are frequently denied the choice of living in the village in which they were born and brought up or in the village close to their employment . |
| 7 | After some twenty years delay — due to the intervening war — a start was made , in 1957 , on the Great West Road Extension through Chiswick , to meet the Cromwell Road extension being constructed by the London County Council up to their boundary on the Hammersmith — Chiswick border . |
| 8 | At the same time , the LRDG would be watching the road , counting traffic and signalling the intelligence back to their base . |
| 9 | the quality of lateral communications , which may enable subordinates to get jobs done without constant reference back to their superior ; |
| 10 | The Department of Transport is planning to build the A417 Cirencester to Stratton bypass through the valley … and there will also be a road realignment which will bring the work closer to their home . |
| 11 | All four Girls eventually danced all over the world , sending quite a considerable amount of money home to their mother . |
| 12 | These recordings are already available on cassette and are now issued on CD for the first time , the first disc is an ADD transfer , but the digital remastering is wholly natural with not artificial brightening of the treble response — as too often happens — and so those who admire warm analogue sound will find this disc wholly to their taste . |
| 13 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 14 | Throws which drop the opponent on to their head or shoulders will be penalised . |
| 15 | Not everyone can last the course down here ; they find the long hours and the winter climate not to their liking , and there is a high drop-out rate . ’ |
| 16 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 17 | Knights owe their allegiance directly to their lord : the Elector Count of their province . |
| 18 | Big men came , and loaded all my stuff on to their pick-up . |
| 19 | But when the citizens of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers cast their stones into the pot last week and elected the managing director of Amalgamated Metal Trading on to their council with the biggest number of votes , they elevated the nearest that divided body has seen to a populist . |
| 20 | Escort the person back to their seat or room . |
| 21 | His wife also received medical attention after the nail bomb was dropped from a bridge on to their tour bus and other nearby vehicles in Cairo . |
| 22 | His wife also received medical attention after the nail bomb was dropped from a bridge on to their tour bus and other nearby vehicles in Cairo . |
| 23 | It is usual to assume that the pupils will be able to use close-range materials on the desk or table in front of them , and then look up to the blackboard , perhaps to copy notes or diagrams displayed there , then quickly refocus on to their desk work . |
| 24 | There was a slight movement close to their position . |
| 25 | She gave him a lift back to their cottage in Tetbury . |
| 26 | Amongst those who have fallen prey to their charms are none other than the Beaujolais Brothers , who whisked the merry troupe off to their chateau and cracked open a few bottles of ultra-rare white Beaujolais Nouveau . |
| 27 | Oblivious to her injuries , Thomas Duke would have carried his daughter back to their cottage in his arms , though it is conceivable that she was carried on an old door or something . |
| 28 | All creaking knees-ups and zimmer-framed doubles entendres , calculated to make the more orderly elderly turn back to their knitting and cocoa in confusion . |
| 29 | Reeves puts their humour down to their upbringing in Darlington and Middlesbrough respectively . |
| 30 | Human beings are needed for those tasks for a variety of reasons from their highly dexterous manipulative potential through to their ability to accept informal instructions . |