Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snowy owls , northern counterparts of the cosmopolitan eagle owls ( Bubo sp. ) are usually sedentary , wintering on or close to their breeding areas . |
| 2 | only the most conscientious ( and , frankly , those with nothing better to do ) dutifully plough through everything that flops out of a jiffy bag and on to their desk . |
| 3 | Accountants are expected to be loyal first and foremost to their company , and not to their profession . |
| 4 | Thus we need to be especially careful what we do with young horses so that the habits they establish are in their interests and not to their detriment . |
| 5 | The general consensus on this matter was left undisturbed until 1984 when Mr Theo Laurentius , an art dealer who specialises in Rembrandt prints , became convinced that the paper on which the etchings were printed did after all hold the key to their authenticity and thus to their value . |
| 6 | This is a flow chart that progresses from top left directly downwards to bottom left tracing the stages that bones pass through : from living animals to dead animals ; to bone accumulations resulting from the decay of the dead animals ; to burial and fossilization of these bone accumulations ; and finally to their collection and storage in some museum collection . |
| 7 | ‘ South Africa must be worried how easily we did get through , and close to their line , because they know that Will Carling and Jeremy Guscott are amongst the quickest in the world . |
| 8 | Vital to their survival and also to their protection . |
| 9 | Khaur and Danjit simply propelled her — Jezrael could hardly walk , so massive was her state of shock — out of the wintry night fields and back to their depot , leaving Ember 's body lonely in the cold . |
| 10 | Snow and Wells demonstrate that parents ( usually ! ) respond sensitively and appropriately to their child 's initiation . |
| 11 | Out of all my customers , satisfied customers , all of them went quietly and bravely to their death . |
| 12 | Out of all my customers , satisfied customers , all of them went quietly and bravely to their death . |
| 13 | From where they sat , the rabbits could look straight ahead upstream , and downstream to their left . |
| 14 | Because their correlations were strongly linked to their rating of the respondent 's perceived adequacy of their social relationships but not to their availability , they conclude that it is not therefore the actual social environment of people which is important to the development of neurotic symptoms , but rather that , when faced with adversity , it is those individuals who view their social relationships as inadequate who have a substantially increased risk of developing neurotic symptoms . |