Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to bring their story out into the open . ’ |
| 2 | Some sport Gazza crops , while others lost their hair back in the mists of time . |
| 3 | It just annoys me , the way they do n't tie their hair back in the coffee shop . |
| 4 | Among the many booksellers and publishers whom I spotted letting their hair down on the dance floor was independent publisher Christopher Hurst . |
| 5 | Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War . |
| 6 | It was at that precise moment the killer pack picked up their trail back in the woods , having arrived hotfoot in answer to the summons of the ultrasonic whistle . |
| 7 | Though heavily laden as they were on their trek back to the crofts , they did not complain . |
| 8 | Their progress down to the Angharad was slow . |
| 9 | The Group said that a further 20,000 died as a result of their internment out of an overall total of 150,000 NKVD prisoners . |
| 10 | I watched the cars stopping to pay their money at the toll-house and wondered if any of the drivers were tempted to put their foot down on the accelerator and go Zoom-Crash ! down to the bottom of the gorge . |
| 11 | ‘ His name is Matthew Blake , ’ Mandy informed Charity as they descended the steps from their cabin on to the paved pathway that led to the lodge . |
| 12 | ‘ Some savers like term shares where they tie their money up for a set period in return for a limited guarantee regarding the interest , ’ says Willis . |
| 13 | Members of the Company put their money down on a separate basis for a distinct and limited series of enterprises ; profits from the voyage would be divided in proportion to capital invested , but capital as well as dividends could be withdrawn when the enterprises were complete and all the goods brought back had been sold off . |
| 14 | Cold swimmers demanded their money back at the new Ponteland Leisure Centre after claiming the water was too cold . |
| 15 | In a decision which surprised MPs and investors , the Trade Secretary , Mr Nicholas Ridley , told the Commons that the bulk of the 18,000 investors are to get nearly 90 per cent of their money back in an unprecedented state payout . |
| 16 | Christie … of course and two more Redgrave and Pinsent the Olympic rowers who this week started their build up for the next games … yes … in four years time … they 're our special guests in this week 's Friday Feature |
| 17 | In our rural areas , libraries have taken their stock out to the people in bookmobiles and ( to the astonishment of visiting Americans ) made available from these peripatetic points full access to the national interlending system of which Britain is justifiably rather proud . |
| 18 | Grandfathers and coal-hewing cousins , brothers and the front row of Neath , Homeric schoolteachers and sopranos whose voices had a bell in every tooth made their entrance on to the Oxford stage , mixed in with chorus girls from Cardiff , waterfront villains from Liverpool and the twenty-two-carat glitz of the West End , where he had opened in The Druid 's Rest in January 1944 with fires in the sky at night , bombs falling from the Luftwaffe and pubs and clubs burning excitement under the blackout . |
| 19 | One evening at Pack Meeting Beegee , which was the name the Pack had made up for their Guider out of the initial letters B and G of Brownie Guider , told the Brownies that the County Girl Guides ' Fete was to be held in a few weeks ' time in Morley Park and that the 3rd Shortfields Pack must think what to do to help make the fete a huge success . |
| 20 | Though I have never heard of any one collaboration between restaurateur and artist proving more lucrative than the next , there does not seem to be any shortage of artists who will in effect take on certain risks in order to get their work out on the town . |
| 21 | They had eaten their lunch down by the lake . |
| 22 | I saw some , my erm people at the bottom of the garden were having their lunch out in the garden |
| 23 | ANNEKA Rice and her husband have agreed to a trial separation after work pressure forced their marriage on to the rocks , her publicity agent said . |
| 24 | Now call upon members oral questions to put their question out on the sheet circulated , the order is determined by the drawing names at random out of a box in the parlour before this meeting . |
| 25 | Many parents are only too eager to hand their child over to a babysitter and enjoy a well-earned night out . |
| 26 | Erm , you , a lot of people now talk as though it 's erm , plain sailing or flying for B Sky B and it 's gon na be er , hunky-dory , whereas Anglia Television have just written their stake down to a prenominal amount because they do n't think it 's gon na make , stand a chance of making a profit before the turn of the millennium . |
| 27 | Wales have responded to their 5-1 opening game thrashing by Romania with two successive wins , at home to the Faroe Islands and last month in Cyprus , to put their campaign back on the rails . |
| 28 | Cantona , the one-time enfante terrible of French football , initially went on loan to Elland Road , where his inventive attacking play — mostly as substitute — gave Leeds a powerful bonus on their run in to the title . |
| 29 | LONDON TOWERS caught Carlsberg League champions Roland Kingston with their guard down for the second time this season by defeating them 103-97 at the Michael Sobell Centre , Islington , on Sunday night . |
| 30 | ‘ Yeah , well , just tell them they got two more days and then they get their boy back in a bag . |