Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon the room became so hot with the heat of the lamps , pupils had to strip down to their shirt sleeves and wear shorts when entering the room . |
| 2 | Now that the women were by themselves , the man whom Penelope had noticed staring at Ianthe seemed to pluck up courage to come over to their table . |
| 3 | Through such techniques as occupational therapy and physiotherapy , and by the inspired use of artificial limbs , walking aids , powered wheelchairs and so on , many severely disabled persons can be helped to adjust physically to their situation , develop compensatory skills and achieve considerable mobility . |
| 4 | People have to stand up to their waist all day in water to earn 10 pence for a 50kg bag of coal . |
| 5 | Both sides had an incentive , when negotiating , to link God to their endeavours , and both fell out of godliness fairly quickly once the talks broke up : North desperate to eat and to get more tape for ‘ the freakin' machine ’ , the Iranians telephoning round to try to get call-girls to come out to their hotel . |
| 6 | They were just finishing their lunch and Barton chose this moment to walk over to their table . |
| 7 | Dr Mortimer and Sir Henry said goodbye , and decided to walk back to their hotel . |
| 8 | For example , an individual may lose their job as a result of becoming depressed , a person suffering agoraphobia will be unable to go out to their place of work as usual , and so on . |
| 9 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 10 | Erm the way I understand the situation is Tony 's happy with er his arrangement and that the clubs have agreed and I think it 's just a matter of them going back now to report back to their President the Italian people and then the way I see it he 'll he 'll go after the er game for a medical and you know there should n't be any problems there . |
| 11 | A House have been the recipients of the kind of underwhelming apathy that would lead most bands to go back to their day jobs and while away their evening swilling pints In The Norseman , mulling over what might have been . |
| 12 | But she was to experience yet more joy , since it seemed they were not to go back to their hotel straight away . |
| 13 | Alison Santos of Madryn Street , Toxteth , and her family are living with a neighbour because they are too terrified to go back to their home . |
| 14 | ‘ Then we got ourselves into a winning position only for carelessness to force us to go back to their place for a replay . ’ |
| 15 | Halfway through the night , they decided they needed to know , went out on to the landing , groped around but in desperation had to go back to their room , pee in their shoes and empty them out of the window ! |
| 16 | Turning away to avoid eye contact , not talking or commenting on the behaviour , and not touching or allowing the child to climb on to their lap are essential characteristics . |
| 17 | As the sound of Ben 's car engine died away , she felt suddenly very alone , the feeling heightened by the knowledge that Jenny and Paul , too , were to leave that morning for Gatwick , to fly off to their holiday destination . |
| 18 | If they were determined to hang on to their culture then they were to do so quietly , without bothering others . |
| 19 | Liverpool were content to hang on to their lead but manager Graeme Souness conceded : ‘ I said after Wednesday 's defeat by Spurs that we would play worse and win , and that was the case today . |
| 20 | Prior to these changes , Wigston was typical of many Tudor and Stuart parishes where smallholders managed to hang on to their property for generation after generation . |
| 21 | In the past , Singapore was able to draw on a ready pool of Malay Chinese to supplement its workforce , but with economies in the whole region growing so rapidly , skilled labour is at a premium and countries are doing all they can to hang on to their brainpower . |
| 22 | The industry is working twice as hard to hold on to their share of advertising and is concentrating on giving readers even more for their money — quality editorial , more colour etc . |
| 23 | Most French people believed it was essential to hold on to their Empire in the late 1940s . |
| 24 | That was just how the circuit bosses liked things , believing that the best way to hold on to their audience was through ‘ family entertainment ’ , and arguing through the Cinematograph Exhibitors Association ( CEA ) that filmmakers should avoid treating themes and incidents that ‘ were offensive to the reasonable taste and standards of those whose patronage was necessary to the health and future of the industry . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Marseille look like struggling to hold on to their League title and if their fans see things slipping , they will turn on Tapie and the team . |
| 26 | Starfield and Mellits ( 1968 ) were successful in teaching 5-year-olds to hold on to their urine for as long as possible once a day for six months and enabled one-third of the children to become dry . |
| 27 | Friends of Dr Owen say that his farewell advice to the nation — he has now stood down as an MP — is intended to avoid damaging the chances for his two remaining SDP colleagues , Rosie Barnes and John Cartwright , who are fighting to hold on to their south-east London seats . |
| 28 | The Wisharts were about to settle down to their reading when the corridor door slid open and an elderly lady eased her way into the compartment ; the newcomer was wearing a striking black silk dress and black hat which were very reminiscent of the Victorian age . |
| 29 | In the way that military tactics fail by being repeated without regard to changed environment and situation , we expect people to live up to their reputation when the circumstances in which they are performing are very different . |
| 30 | About 80 daredevils , most in their 70s and 80s , plan to live up to their reputation for unparalleled courage . |