Example sentences of "their [noun pl] go [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neighbours who were not so well thought of stood and watched at gun-point , while their homes went up in flames . |
| 2 | The ponies walked slowly because their feet went down into the snow . |
| 3 | Their names went up on a list on the school board as being entitled to free lunches . |
| 4 | Most Eurocoinmunists are also instrumentalists , and their arguments go back to those of ‘ the renegade Kautsky ’ ( as Lenin called him ) . |
| 5 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 6 | He crowed to me : ‘ The Queen wo n't allow any negotiations between Andrew and Fergie and their lawyers to go on without me being present . ’ |
| 7 | George Kirkham sent out an appeal to all Anglo-Burman Associations asking their members to go back to Burma in this spirit , and demanding no special safeguards . |
| 8 | Erm and er that it 's maybe very important at a time like this when children are potentially going and and knocking on stranger 's doors to be particularly careful so what we 've done is is is put together a simple guide for parents and carers erm which suggests that er they should n't just let their children go off for the evening . |
| 9 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 10 | He had seen the pressure army wives were under , had seen their faces crumple when their men went out on a mission . |
| 11 | Sometimes I 'd watch their kites going down into the fields overhead , down until they dwindled away out of sight , long before they reached the tops of the trees You ca n't do that often , though , because of all the smog . |
| 12 | Muslim ones tend to shrivel up at the thought of their women going out to work . |
| 13 | I think there is an element of contrariness about them but if they were really honest with themselves deep down , I do n't think they would be happy if their records went in at number 150 and they were still playing The Bull And Gate . |
| 14 | There were dark schemes afoot , he said — some with their roots going back for years — and if Hitler could achieve it , the replacement of King George by his brother could only occur at the cost of Winston 's life . |