Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the interpretation from dealers and experts is that motorists are hanging on to their ageing cars instead of buying new ones . |
| 2 | " Nice to hear of someone hanging on to their old family possessions . |
| 3 | Lyles would like to thank the Stoddard ‘ non-playing ’ Captain , Jimmy Shiels , for stepping in as their late replacement , scoring a creditable 26 points . |
| 4 | Music began with the beating of a tabor and the whistle of pipes , and then the servers began trooping in in their dozens with great platters of heaped food and jugs of ale . |
| 5 | GEARING up for their 25th anniversary , the British Aviation Preservation Council staged its 98th quarterly conference at the Yorkshire Air Museum ( YAM ) , Elvington , on November 2 . |
| 6 | Tommy took charge again as the lads of Number Eleven Platoon lurched from pub to pub becoming drunker and drunker , before finally ending up in their established local , the Volunteer , on Leith Walk . |
| 7 | TOUGH guys Sylvester Stallone , 46 , and Arnold Schwarzenegger are squaring up for their latest film The Last Action Hero . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Middlesbrough race tomorrow night for the final week before reverting back to their usual Wednesday evening slot . |
| 10 | Besides , everyone else is bidding out of their next pay , just as I am . |
| 11 | Press monopolies inhibit those with different views from launching out on their own . |
| 12 | Many claim to have had these near death ; floating near the ceiling while looking down at their dying ( or clinically dead ) physical frames . |
| 13 | Looking down at their still and silent master , the two dogs began to slink nearer until they lay down beside him , noses resting on his body . |
| 14 | I am often bemused by the men who criticize a woman 's shape when they are quite clearly looking down on their own unsightly ‘ pregnant'-looking stomachs . |
| 15 | As we take apart the fight story , more and more men seem to be pushing in with their own excited commentaries . |
| 16 | After lunch , pensioners had the choice of venturing off on their own or visiting the Tales of Robin Hood Centre . |
| 17 | the female provarian no the female preference to male clothes , B , children , children 's habit of dressing up in their own parents ' clothes , C , a morbid fear of eggs ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It felt like Checkpoint Charlie , but in fact no one tried to stop you except the alkies lurching up off their piss-stained benches with some story about needing the bus fare back home to Sheffield . |
| 20 | Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp . |
| 21 | Looking back on their ten years of marriage , Davina and Alastair feel they stopped being in touch with what their needs were after their children were born . |
| 22 | They can not figure it out , and so go on acting out of their inward instinctive patterning . |
| 23 | Hence , it is argued , the technology was developed to meet the requirements of large-scale factory production rather than of small-scale craft producers operating out of their own cottages . |
| 24 | By now they were in among thickening crowds of people , nodding to acquaintances and looking out for their own key men from down the valley . |
| 25 | All the teachers bouncing about in their flower-power gear , trying to get you to dance with them , and old Fungus Williams playing his ancient records . |
| 26 | It had already been arranged that Eric and Daphne Lovell would drive Rose to her destination before going on to their own and would pick her up later for the return trip . |
| 27 | Nonesuch reverts to its old function , keeping the University as a whole together , telling graduates what is going on in their old alma mater , and keeping them up to date with what their contemporaries are doing . |
| 28 | Ca n't they look at what 's going on in their own lives and find anything interesting ? ’ |
| 29 | We can , we can badger our MPs and erm until they do and , and because they are oblivious to a lot of things that are going on in their own , you know till we put it in front of them . |
| 30 | They do not realise what is going on in their own backyard . |