Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone bundled their possessions together and talked about where they would like to stay . |
| 2 | She felt him lace their fingers together and trembled with a strange mixture of excitement and trepidation . |
| 3 | If the European sales companies get their fingers out and get the languages checked for me then yes . |
| 4 | We hope our politicians pull their fingers out and negotiate on our behalf , ’ says March . |
| 5 | ‘ If British manufacturers do n't pull their fingers out and put their might and muscle behind us then more will go to the wall , ’ she warns . |
| 6 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |
| 7 | Unless hardware maintenance providers broaden the range of services they offer , position their products correctly and market them right , they will not succeed in today 's hardware market , which is dropping in value more rapidly than previously predicted . |
| 8 | Everyone , parents and boys , craned their necks back and stared into the cerulean blue above the Village . |
| 9 | For example , they may have been encouraged to stick their necks out and set an objective and then been clobbered for not achieving it . |
| 10 | Would not it have been more sensible to request all those concerned with the project to put forward their plans together and subject them all to just one public inquiry ? |
| 11 | The process will necessarily be a dynamic one with DHAs updating their plans annually and modifying their pattern of contracts both to reflect changing needs and to respond to new services becoming available from current or alternative providers . |
| 12 | He was Housemaster of Arden , and though forbidden by an old war wound from taking too boisterous a part in the sporting events of the House , yet he followed their activities closely and gave appropriate advice and encouragement . |
| 13 | Without further hesitation they gathered their sticks together and boarded the five Bristol Bombays , squeezing themselves into the fuselages among the piles of equipment that were to be dropped with them . |
| 14 | ‘ Where did you learn anyway ? ’ he asked as they snapped their skis off and bumped the ice from them before going in . |
| 15 | Chatterton pulled their legs slightly and said they had better be careful not to get on the wrong side of you again and Glastonbury did n't know what the hell anyone was talking about . |
| 16 | One group have lost their legs altogether and taken to burrowing underground . |
| 17 | At present , RTV is intended as a development tool allowing applications developers to capture their images digitally and model a DVI application on their magnetic hard disc which they then can run and verify before sending video away to Intel 's US laboratories for processing to full PLV quality . |
| 18 | At this the women stopped their knees up and went back in without a look at the man . |
| 19 | And at that moment , the two people that usually took over from us came round the corner , poked their heads round and said ‘ Oh hello , fancy seeing you here , we just thought we 'd pop round to say goodbye . ’ |
| 20 | I used to do , get them to have all their heads round and go round and do them . |
| 21 | His camp followers have been nodding their heads sagely and saying that all is not yet over and Hezzy may not be destined to live out his political life amid the ruins of the Department of the Environment — once he 's pulled it down , that is . |
| 22 | Campese 's decision robbed 60,000 in the stadium , and countless millions around the world , of what would have been one of the most intense and fascinating finales to the World Cup , with England only three points behind , their heads up and winning score in sight . |
| 23 | The consequence is that Broad Lane 's two largest personalities have banged their heads together and come up with an undisclosed compromise in an effort to prevent Wivenhoe 's first relegation in 30 years of undiluted success . |
| 24 | The women put their heads together and agreed that it would be no bad thing if Loverin laid on hard with his strap . |
| 25 | The world summit for children which took place at the weekend caught the headlines around the world and the world 's leaders put their heads together and agreed that children all round the world are suffering and something must be done about it . |
| 26 | His long term objective is to re-establish the economic basis of Berlin by persuading researchers of industry to put their heads together and devise some new products . |
| 27 | I felt a perverse , and entirely unfair , urge to bang their heads together and tell them it was their duty to be depressed and scruffy like me . |
| 28 | The most revealing thing he said , though , was that his image of rugby is a lot of guys putting their heads together and getting dirty and drinking beer after the game . |
| 29 | Some , ‘ … wiser than the rest , lay their heads together and resolved in council to be before-hand ’ and went with picks and shovels and opened the land around the monument to a depth of six feet . |
| 30 | If we can proceed along a sensible line and if Buckinghamshire and Berkshire county councils lock their heads together and produce a worthwhile scheme , that is fine . |