Example sentences of "of their [noun] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of their defenders stayed back making a mockery of their appeals for offside . |
| 2 | A large part of their earnings went back again to the USA for investment ; as a result they had to pay Belpan National Bank 's transfer charges twice . |
| 3 | They are offered smaller discounts than the purchasing moguls of companies , and are viewed with distaste in garages because of their tendency to quibble over bills or wonder whether they really need new tyres . |
| 4 | A UK-backed debt plan based on the so-called Trinidad terms agreed at a Commonwealth finance ministers ' meeting in Trinidad in September 1990 , enabling the poorest debtor countries to have two-thirds of their debt written off and the remainder rescheduled over 25 years , failed to win support after opposition from Japan and the USA . |
| 5 | Most of the bureau do n't supply order forms — most of their work comes in on spec — and so it is very much up to the customer to specify what is required . |
| 6 | BNFL News editor said : ‘ The dispensers will be placed so that no one will have to go out of their way to pick up a copy and they will be topped up regularly . |
| 7 | BNFL News editor said : ‘ The dispensers will be placed so that no one will have to go out of their way to pick up a copy and they will be topped up regularly . |
| 8 | Old-fashioned MPs , unlike the new generation who happily turn up at the annual conference , went out of their way to dream up family illnesses , unavoidable business meetings or urgent missions to Kurdistan to avoid these gatherings . |
| 9 | It is hardly surprising that the LNU leaders did not go out of their way to point out that , without the final threat of military sanctions , an economic blockade against an aggressor power was most unlikely to succeed . |
| 10 | ESTATE agents valuing every house in Britain for the new council tax have had many of their estimates thrown out by the Inland Revenue . |
| 11 | Jets will have the advantage in terms of cup final experience as four of their players turned out for Telford in last year 's final . |
| 12 | Midges drawn by the smell of their sweat swarmed round their heads and young Angus began to regret his curiosity , but his father 's face was set and dark in a way that froze out complaints , or chatter of any kind . |
| 13 | ‘ Almost every time one of their rifles went off ’ , Gibbon lamented , ‘ one of our party was sure to fall . ’ |
| 14 | Asian women come from many different language groups , practise at least three main religions and have come to Britain in varied patterns of migration but ask them about their family life and the similarity of their experience stands out like the skeleton in an X-ray . |
| 15 | Children were then able to sit in front of their range dressed up in old fashioned costume and role-play . |
| 16 | PUBLICANS are campaigning on behalf of their customers to keep down the price of the pint in the Republic . |
| 17 | Sometimes the couple may allow the physical side of their relationship to fade out altogether . |
| 18 | The Horror Film Specialist was surrounded by an admiring coterie of lesser horror film specialists and most of their conversation referred back to previous triumphs . |
| 19 | Muslim ones tend to shrivel up at the thought of their women going out to work . |
| 20 | When they complain about ‘ stress ’ they are not saying they want to spend the rest of their lives lazing about in the sun being brought rum bamboozles on a silver tray ( though the idea has its appeal ) . |
| 21 | Delighted to be helpful , the white cells rub their genes together in glee , and for the rest of their lives curl up in their DNA sleeping bags . |
| 22 | There they have been working with individual patients who , for one reason or another , spend most of their lives sitting down — some of them in wheelchairs , unable to walk at all . |
| 23 | They was t that tried to be the strike breakers and there was several of their buses turned over you 've probably read that have you in the |
| 24 | The Nayar case also illustrates my earlier comments on the anthropologists ' use of the term " society " and of their attempts to set up typologies of societies of various kinds . |
| 25 | In spite of complaints by leaders of trade unions many of their members bought up the shares . |
| 26 | A draught whistled through the jeep and all three men had the collars of their mackintoshes turned up . |
| 27 | As in the lowlands , the traditional landscape has to some extent been preserved by the economic irrationality of farmers — although in the uplands it consists of their ability to hold on against all the odds rather than disavow the pursuit of maximum profits . |
| 28 | The union is constantly looking out for ways like this to show promoters , record companies and the rest of the music industry the right way to treat musicians , and to remind the business yet again of their responsibility to put back into music just a small part of the rewards which they enjoy , thanks to the skills of musicians . |
| 29 | Labour has promised a system of independent public inquiries which will look into all proposed school closures , and it believes this will protect schools threatened because of their decision to opt out . |
| 30 | The noise of their progress floated back to where Paige and Travis lay hidden for many minutes , before fading away completely . |