Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve other members will continue their course through to Lent this year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Child protection registers first came into being in the 1970s and owe their existence not to statute but to a series of departmental circulars . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These exotic fruits are increasingly finding their way on to supermarket shelves and from there to our fruitbowls . |
| 9 | ‘ We find a lot of people stop off on their way home from work and then again on their way out to dinner . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | After debriefing the other agencies and packing their equipment , the EOD team leave and make their way back to base . |
| 12 | Indeed , a number of men had already made their way back to camp , ostensibly to re-kindle their torches , but in reality to resume drinking . |
| 13 | The children , from Corporation Road Junior School , were on their way back to school from a swimming session at the Dolphin Centre . |
| 14 | Most of them find their way back to garden centres to be re-sold . |
| 15 | He left the room , and she heard his shoes whisper their way down to Room C. |
| 16 | Even when the incumbent on the throne showed little inclination for active policy-making , those who acted for the Tsar owed their power solely to proximity to the throne . |
| 17 | However , the couple found help for their son closer to home at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Development Centre , near BAe 's Broughton plant . |