Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] to their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is the moment when the bride and groom slip off to their chosen hideaway for a little privacy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Tranmere Rovers verses Swindon Town.Now all it needs is for the Swindon players to hold their nerve and hold on to their two goal advantage . |
| 4 | Not all British private-eye stories match up to their American counterparts , but it can be done . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | An officially estimated 75 per cent of British children speak their mother tongue , which they hear at home , abysmally , and will , in the course of time , pass on to their own children , since , after all , languages are first learnt with the ears and not grammar books . |
| 7 | Unless they get back to their winning ways Rovers could even miss the play-offs . |
| 8 | When they get back to their own places they go to the middle and pick up a ‘ pearl ’ and go back to stand in their places . |
| 9 | Scum back to their usual tricks , outplayed for 80mins at Everton yet scab a 1–0 win . |
| 10 | All the parts here resolve on to their appointed notes . |
| 11 | And our other project will probably be in Malaysia , where we 're hoping to be able to fund lawyers to go and visit the indigenous tribes , and educate them about the Malaysian process of law , because at the moment I 'm sure you 'll know that various indigenous people have been blockading the logging roads that go on to their demarcated territory . |
| 12 | DEREK Cook watched Coleraine go down to their fifth consecutive defeat — and prayed for a reprieve from manager Billy Sinclair . |
| 13 | The following week they go off to their respective schools , to meet the teachers and the group of children they will be working with . |
| 14 | After staying here , most girls , apart from the very young ones , go off to their own flats . |
| 15 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 16 | ‘ Before a new resident is admitted to this Home , I go out to their own home to make an assessment . |
| 17 | Sandy , what 's going to happen to these kids when they go back to their dull , boring school laboratories and classes after having seen the vision of your course and what physics can possibly be in the future ? |
| 18 | Hilary was too young for that , and sat instead on a swing in the front garden of the Headmaster 's House , watching the secondary-modern-school pupils flock by to their separate schools . |
| 19 | But does their agreement about guitars carry over to their individual sounds ? |
| 20 | They will soon ascertain whether or not Gore-Tex and Timberland live up to their much-vaunted specifications . |
| 21 | Semi-proletarianisation is closely linked to temporary intra-rural migration , as numbers of peasants move to a particular area for seasonal work and then move back to their small plots of land or on to another area , where a different crop has reached the planting or harvesting stage . |
| 22 | THE HONEY THIEVES : ‘ Second Hand Man ’ ( Buzz ) wild , leather-clad bunch of rockin' Dubliners with their second buzz-inducing single , produced by Chris Allison , and the follow up to their Irish Top 20 hit , ‘ Drive ’ — out on Monday |
| 23 | Initially , a majority of these reluctant long-distance movers commute back to their metropolitan jobs , but in the longer term many take up more local jobs — a feature that has grown as employment too has decentralized ( Herington , 1984 ; Congdon and Champion , 1989 ) . |