Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First violin Michael Thomas explains in the liner notes that in the early seventies they would often let their hair down in private , arranging and playing pieces from Joplin to the Beatles and Brubeck purely for fun . |
| 2 | Clough is also thinking of offering Sheffield Wednesday some of their money back on out-of-favour £800,000 striker Nigel Jemson . |
| 3 | Since the 1970s the reduction in dependence on bank loans has been a more general feature , especially among manufacturing firms who are able to finance more of their investment out of retained profits or accumulated reserves . |
| 4 | They threw their weight about with boisterous nonchalance while the girls , in frilly lace collars like doilies , tartan skirts and coloured tights , looked on admiringly . |
| 5 | Rather than break their eating up into discrete meals , they typically eat more or less continuously . |
| 6 | Well it 's certainly clear that some of the companies , for instance Cliffhanger , which have grown in Brighton and developed Brighton as a base , are not just immensely popular within Brighton , but also very popular when we take them out on tour , or when they offer their services to other venues in other parts of East Sussex or Kent , and this is equally true of some of the community orientated groups , some of the musicians and artists who live and work primarily in Brighton erm their talent is readily appreciable throughout the region and therefore it 's part of our tactics to talk to artists who are operating in the Brighton area and see whether they 're willing or interested in taking some of their work out to other parts of the region . |
| 7 | Analysis of contractor 's cash flow projections and their discounting back to current prices may reveal that what appears to be the cheapest tender is not in fact so , or that it would exceed the client 's budget at certain times . |
| 8 | Eudoxus scorns this answer , arguing that it is typical of acts with failed human agency ( the ‘ good counsels ’ devised ) to throw the reasons for their failure on to divine agency , ‘ so as to excuse their own follies and imperfections ’ . |
| 9 | The police took the immediate neighbours into their confidence out of sheer necessity , hoping one of them might have seen or heard something significant the previous Tuesday ; but none had . |
| 10 | In their opening up of public space , Baroque planners organized vast vistas in order to highlight central monumental features . |
| 11 | Most SSD directors believe sharing information on unmet need could open their authority up to judicial review , according to a Community Care survey ( News , 1 April ) . |
| 12 | I entirely agree with Richard Harwood that those district societies that put the effort into breaking their society down into local groups , small practitioner groups , commercial membership groups and , for that matter , any other group that seems appropriate , have seen the real benefits from this assistance in the vital area of communication and , perhaps an unseen fact , value for money for the subscription as seen through the eyes of the Institute 's membership . |
| 13 | They said , ‘ this is how we were in the past ’ , and they made their image out of historical facts . |
| 14 | One or two species of fruit bats , however , for instance Rousettus , are capable of finding their way around in total darkness where eyes , however good , must be powerless . |
| 15 | Whether they are jamming the bustling streets of Kowloon , elbowing their way on to ancient trams or leaping about on the terraces at the races , Hong Kong people are enthusiasts . |
| 16 | The surviving rabbits will emerge from the system , digging their way out through favoured holes almost overnight . |
| 17 | This will possibly suffice to keep the tiniest of ponds clear and consequently , some small foam blocks find their way out of less-reputable outlets as fully fledged filters . |
| 18 | Even though there was a sharp frost outside , couples could be seen stealing away from the dance and returning a half-hour or so later , always a little crestfallen until they had danced again , danced their way back into good cheer . |
| 19 | Their daughters now in their sixties , fifties and forties , were the post-war generations of married women who found their way back into waged work , who disrupted the equation between the breadwinner and masculinity which has been inscribed in both the wage system and in the state 's system of income support . |
| 20 | One hesitates to enter into the argument of whether co-operation and co-ordination should be processes which should be established at national level and work their way down to local level , or should be processes which should develop naturally at local level and work their way through regional to national or even international level . |
| 21 | The rain was still falling as Corbett and his party reached London 's Aldgate and made their way down through Poor Jewry , Mark Lane , and into Petty Wales near the Tower . |
| 22 | They 're planning to turn their ground into an all-seater stadium when they can find a three-piece cheap suite enough — the only way they 'll raise the money is to turn their pitch over to growing cabbages and start a fruit-and-veg. stall on Birmingham market selling rotten fruit ! |