Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They leap on to their host , guided in the final stages by the host 's body heat and the carbon dioxide in its breath . |
| 2 | They leave their civilian jobs , and instead of heading for home and a quiet night in front of the television , report in to their company bases , change into military uniform and are briefed for the night 's patrol tasks , which will take them through until the early hours of the morning , When they again become civilians . |
| 3 | Education : Zoo trips hold on to their place in the management plan |
| 4 | You meet perfect strangers , listen politely to their life stories and then , when they cock an inquisitive ear , you need no encouragement to answer their unspoken questions . |
| 5 | After about an hour , her two babies scamper back to their den , she rejoins her mate and the two walk off to resume grazing , perhaps a considerable distance away . |
| 6 | For the first time in this long climb back to their fortune he began to feel a sort of panic . |
| 7 | Then they jump on to their prey , paralyse it and feed on it . |
| 8 | Winners hang on to their success |
| 9 | Some people faithfully hang on to their problem , sabotaging help when unconsciously they experience their partner as more vulnerable than themselves and in need of protection . |
| 10 | ‘ People who hang on to their land and property even if it kills them , so we 've never had to worry about money and that 's why we 're such nice people . ’ |
| 11 | Glamorous makes like the smaller models in the Mercedes and BMW ranges hang on to their value , because their image makes them highly desirable . |
| 12 | Freed of the responsibility of nursing her husband Lady Chatterley spends more time with the gamekeeper and eventually they both give in to their desire . |
| 13 | Interior Minister Horacio Serpa Uribe on April 17 confirmed that the government would not negotiate with the drug cartels or give in to their violence and would continue the policy of extradition . |
| 14 | I have tried leaving them without food but after about a week I give in to their begging . |
| 15 | Their present media facilities owe much to their history . |
| 16 | The downfall of Mr Perez and Mr Collor may in fact owe less to their corruption — real or imagined — than to their general unpopularity and especially that of their economic reforms . |
| 17 | John Major , in his term as chancellor , forced the clubs to at least partly face up to their business responsibilities . |
| 18 | We look forward to their return in the autumn , their enthusiasm renewed ready to tackle whatever lies ahead . |
| 19 | That , that 's , that 's more of a , and they 're doing very little to start with , and then they rapidly get up to their top speed , and they level out . |
| 20 | That 's when I go down to their level . |
| 21 | ‘ We 'll put his comments away in the locker and bring them out again when we go down to their place , ’ said the Scotland international . |
| 22 | People would get up , go to the opposite end of the room , jig about , go back to their seat ( or , better still , someone else 's ) , get up again and jog round the perimeter of the hall . |
| 23 | We 're going to pass the hat round later , buy some beer and go back to their place . |
| 24 | they then go back to their office and unfortunately a lot of what other people in the office are doing are taught |
| 25 | ( It may be helpful to note a parallel dispute in economics about whether firms respond rationally to their market situation or need to be analysed in terms of how they are organized internally . ) |
| 26 | Some characters live up to their dress : Peter Craze 's pig-tailed Banquo , earthy and violent , and Stephen Hattersley 's no-nonsense Macduff are a welcome contrast to Bolam 's King . |
| 27 | The central bank should abandon attempts to use the money supply to peg interest rates and exchange rates since , if left alone , these rates will ‘ naturally ’ settle down to their equilibrium values ( see Friedman ( 1968 ) for a powerfully expressed plea for central banks to desist from trying to peg interest rates ) . |
| 28 | Alex and Thrash arrive late and stick close to their entourage . |
| 29 | Acid rain affects trees partly because it dissolves essential nutrients out of the soil , such as magnesium and calcium — but again releases aluminium , which the trees take up to their detriment . |
| 30 | As soon as any of their number is reduced to half Wounds or below , they must all make successful Ld tests or break off combat and flee back to their cave . |