Example sentences of "their [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve other members will continue their course through to Lent this year . |
| 2 | The sound man struggles for a couple of numbers to actually pull their frequencies back to earth . |
| 3 | Tightening the butterfly nuts on these magnet limpets broke the glass phials , so setting chemical time-fuses ( see Appendix 3 ) before the raiders turned their canoe back to sea on a reciprocal course for the motor launch . |
| 4 | Child protection registers first came into being in the 1970s and owe their existence not to statute but to a series of departmental circulars . |
| 5 | It induces parties to submit their disputes voluntarily to conciliation or administrative decision and , in some areas such as divorce and custody , it involves them in working out a private solution , thus enhancing their acceptance of the outcome . |
| 6 | There 's some artists out there who do it because they have to get it off their chest and get their songs on to tape . |
| 7 | Their UK representative is Arvids Natzins of Corby , Northants , and he is appealing to aero clubs worldwide to ‘ twin ’ with LAK and to exchange information as the Latvians urgently need western experience to bring their club back to life and to use western practices . |
| 8 | I have a suspicion that several objectors had more than the local interests at heart ; those who have enclosed part of the lane and extended their gardens on to land over which the public have a right of passage . |
| 9 | This will require those taxpayers to bring their instalments up to date within 7 days otherwise they will lose the right to pay by instalments . |
| 10 | After half an hour the gathering breaks up and the recruits escort their visitors off to lunch , or on a tour of camp for yet more photographs . |
| 11 | Bothwell 's men had to carry their leader back to Hermitage , where he was greeted by the mortifying news that the prisoners had overpowered their guards and taken charge of the castle . |
| 12 | Austin , Texas-based Tivoli Systems Inc 's distributed systems management software , WizDom , already incorporates proprietary object definitions in its schema , although Kirk believes Tivoli , and other players in this market are sure to map their conventions on to HOG 's specification : he says there should be no problem achieving this . |
| 13 | They tend to attribute their successes more to luck and less to ability than men , and to be more influenceable . |
| 14 | So why have these workers been so keen to graft their ambitions on to terminology , the Latin root of which lies in patrician — plebian ; master — slave ; patron — dependant subservience ? |
| 15 | However with the advent of the reef aquarium , hopefully , the greater demand may encourage breeders who have confined their efforts only to breeding aquarium fish in the past , to turn to commercially rearing invertebrates . |
| 16 | In head office , managers are responsible for keeping their teams up to date with progress on their tests in their particular areas of work . |
| 17 | Saturday was the busiest day of the week at the Herald office , and Tracey hated having nothing to do while his colleagues got their stories on to copy paper , consulted lawyers and argued with sub-editors . |
| 18 | Published every two months and approximately 12 pages in length , it is intended as an ideal means of keeping the practitioners and their staff up to date on topical issues . |
| 19 | Tailor-made short course for individual companies , to bring their staff up to date with modern computer techniques . |
| 20 | And I used to listen to that kind of flattery which all too often can drag the most doughty warriors from their heights down to hell itself . |
| 21 | So St Wilfrid the bishop and his clergy on bended knees lifted their hands again to heaven and gained the help of the Lord … who straightway bade the tide return before its usual hour , and while the pagans , on the coming of their king were preparing for a fourth battle , the sea came back and covered all the shore , so that the ship was floated and made its way into the deep . |
| 22 | The Japanese , on the other hand , would need all the money they could lay their hands on to rebuild . |
| 23 | HP boasted that over 100 IBM customers had already offloaded or replaced applications from their mainframes over to HP business systems and servers over the past year , and quoted Dataquest figures that show 46% of mainframes sites surveyed in the process of downsizing . |
| 24 | There is also a small sector of very expensive élite schools which teach in Spanish and English , used mainly by upper and upper-middle class families who aspire to send their children abroad to university . |
| 25 | According to a Nature Conservancy Council Report ( 1981b ) significant declines in swan populations in many parts of Britain are due to the ingestion of lead shot and weights which find their way on to lake and stream beds from where they are consumed as grit . |
| 26 | With the market for the costliest wines at a current low point , more and more very expensive and underaged bottles are finding their way on to high-street wine merchants ' shelves . |
| 27 | These exotic fruits are increasingly finding their way on to supermarket shelves and from there to our fruitbowls . |
| 28 | ‘ We find a lot of people stop off on their way home from work and then again on their way out to dinner . |
| 29 | ‘ For three years the Government has been cutting help to the unemployed , depriving them of the training they need and reducing their ability to find their way back to work . |
| 30 | After debriefing the other agencies and packing their equipment , the EOD team leave and make their way back to base . |