Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [coord] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seventy or eighty men were at the kill and most of them , like us , had heard the shooting from their homes and hurried over just in time . |
| 2 | Today , five hundred million years after those jawless armour-laden creatures began to wag their tails and blunder over the muddy bottoms of the ancient seas , the fish have evolved into some 30,000 different species . |
| 3 | By the early 1960s the largest metropolitan areas in Britain had moved into ‘ absolute decentralization ’ , whereby the principal settlements of each began to lose population , and by 1971 several of these areas were facing overall population decline , with residential decentralization taking place across their boundaries and spilling over into adjacent city-regions or further afield ( Hall et al. , 1973 ; Spence el al. , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | Claverhouse had sent them to say that if the Covenanters laid down their arms and handed over their leaders , they would be pardoned . |
| 5 | Consequently , there was a constant danger of those Moorish princes owing allegiance to El Cid calling upon him for aid , or simply reneging on their agreements and going over in force to the Almoravid leader . |
| 6 | The two boys picked up their pints and moved over to a couple of chairs by the fire , just vacated by an elderly couple . |
| 7 | Joseph followed Suit with Dong , and when the commotion died own and they had bidden the Annamese boys goodnight , he and Paul stripped off their shirts and walked over to the bamboo skinning platform where Chuck was already back at work on his buffalo hide . |