Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children are in role as islanders who have decided to abandon their homes because a volcano is becoming active . |
| 2 | AT LEAST one person died and three others were fighting for their lives after a school canoeing trip went disastrously wrong yesterday . |
| 3 | BRITISH holidaymakers told yesterday how they fled for their lives when a killer flood surged through their campsite . |
| 4 | Poll tax payers could find an extra twenty five pounds on their bills after a council voted to defy Government spending limits . |
| 5 | The junction at Newton is to revert to double track , airline style black boxes are being installed in trains to pinpoint the cause of accidents , and a new electronic safeguard system which will literally stop trains in their tracks if a driver makes a mistake is being tested . |
| 6 | The junction at Newton is to revert to double track , airline style black boxes are being installed in trains to pinpoint the cause of accidents , and a new electronic safeguard system which will literally stop trains in their tracks if a driver makes a mistake is being tested . |
| 7 | But most families in Britain are familiar with using hospitals and demand in-patient care for their relatives when a crisis arises . |
| 8 | Press the ‘ up ’ arrow key to skip the presentation sequence where the players run on and off the pitch , or back to their positions when a goal is scored . |
| 9 | Users of 80486-based personal computers may be able to run Macintosh System 7.1 on their machines if a project under way at Apple Computer Inc comes to fruition . |
| 10 | Users of 80486-based personal computers may be able to run Macintosh System 7.1 on their machines if a project under way at Apple Computer Inc comes to fruition . |
| 11 | Many say they have had to turn down surgery , for instance , because they could not find alternative care for their dependants when a bed became available . |
| 12 | The next day all this was swept from their minds when a letter arrived from Eileen , saying that she was to be married by special licence . |
| 13 | My respected landladies , who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality , would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting , so , in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary , a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start ; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks , and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits , the geniality of the sunshine was felt , and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress ( some eight miles from Stornoway , where I was due at eight o'clock , if I remember rightly ) , might have waited breakfast for me . |
| 14 | Scores of disabled workers are to lose their jobs after a council decided to stop subsidising their workshops . |