Example sentences of "their [noun] at the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps this was what those few loud-mouthed rabbit-eyed creatures who dropped their bombs at the first flak and then came back and talked about the target area had felt like . |
2 | Once again hardware and software developers will be testing the portability and interoperability of their technologies at the eighth Connectathon event which SunSoft Inc is staging at between July 22–30 at the San Jose Convention centre in California . |
3 | WALES , the Soviet Union and West Germany are three new nations making their debut at the 15th Hong Kong Sevens , to be staged from 31 March to 1 April next year . |
4 | Julia , who called off their wedding at the last minute a year ago , was recently in Ireland with new lover Jason Patric . |
5 | EXPLORER Sir Ranulph Fiennes and companion Dr Michael Stroud were almost halfway to the South Pole yesterday in their attempt at the first unaided crossing of Antarctica . |
6 | Six Welsh officials and 10 players made the trip , many changing their mind at the last minute . |
7 | They did n't appear to mind me playing a double game , allying with each in turn , then becoming their opponent at the next round . |
8 | So the pro-am gathering ends with a collection of 18-handicap amateurs discussing the only subject that interests them — their birdie at the 9th . |
9 | For very form 's sake , and because , after all , Stair was his brother , he had stayed with the party through one act of a musical comedy at the Gaiety Theatre where they had made so much noise that their departure at the first interval must have pleased the audience which they had left behind , had gone to Quaggers — Quaglino 's — to dine — which meant drink — in a private room , and were now on their way to crown their evening 's pleasure by ‘ Pushing the boat out for Havvie ’ , Stair 's witticism . |
10 | The workers made their comments at the tenth anniversary conference of the Association of Black Social Workers and Allied Professions held last week in London . |
11 | The criticism is then seen as being political and if the electors of Greater London disapprove of what is done in their name by their representatives , the remedy lies in their hands at the next election . |
12 | Hundreds more Herefordians are expected to risk their morals at the first show in the city early next month . |
13 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd , speaking on BBC 's The World This Weekend , said : ‘ On past form a great many members are looking to make up their minds at the last moment . |
14 | The authors published their reports at the 2nd Benoxaprofen Symposium in June , by which time the firm had the full texts of the assays . |
15 | I know there is a public perception that everyone should sell their shares at the first opportunity , but I think this could be a big mistake . ’ |