Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it 's like the radioactive cloud has drifted down , days after the holocaust , and dusted their skin softly to start the decay . |
| 2 | In this , and their inability yet to give colour , these small CRTs compare with LC TVs ( 1 ) . |
| 3 | The difficulties which children between the ages of roughly 3 and 7 have in understanding basic logical and scientific principles may be related to their inability appropriately to interpret certain linguistic terms . |
| 4 | Yeah , that unfortunately the majority of people say you 'll get money in a couple of days , then the person would start to argue , because they need their money now to go and buy their shopping . |
| 5 | Perhaps these really were ‘ men who had high purposes ’ , as North described McFarlane and Poindexter , men who ‘ were trying their level best to make this world a better place . ’ |
| 6 | Every other farm in the dale was blessed with children able to share the work but all they had was elderly folk who did their level best to help but were just too old and infirm . |
| 7 | And when we say , or the A N C and democratic organizations say , that you need a five percent vote to cross the hurdle to get in to the assembly and then you , you , you 're a member of their parliament so to say and then what do we hear ? |
| 8 | They must then choose their wave again to carry them out and up with the swell so they can seize the ropes dangling from the platform . |
| 9 | Even those of us who have had a sneaking sympathy for Marina 's parents find their inability to accept their grandchild hard to comprehend . |
| 10 | On the other hand , did he need their friendship enough to risk his safety ? |
| 11 | SEVEN police officers charged after a demonstration at Mr Rupert Murdoch 's News International headquarters in Wapping , east London , won their attempt yesterday to halt criminal proceedings against them . |
| 12 | He 's forgiven because it 's in their essence never to hold back , and all their pent-up frustration is , if anything , a guiding focus for their supercharged spirit . |
| 13 | This acts as a commitment payment and demonstrates the seriousness of the vendors confirming that it is not their intention just to test the water and withdraw . |
| 14 | Laybacks and handjams have been especially efficient at suckering me into their grip only to spew me out into airborne humiliation . |
| 15 | They grant priority to general rules of international law in domestic and international politics and affirm their determination conscientiously to fulfil their treaty obligations … |
| 16 | Aged rats lose their capacity both to learn new tasks and to show potentiation . |
| 17 | Large adjustments downwards required the costly cancellation of contracts ( which the Boards understandably resisted ) , and sheer logistic and managerial problems also limited their capacity quickly to accelerate their planned programmes . |
| 18 | MEMBERS of the radical black Pan Africanist Congress were told by their leader yesterday to brace themselves for a bitter struggle as they celebrated the 33rd anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre with a fiery demonstration of militancy in the township where the killings occurred . |
| 19 | The entire family of a widow , especially if she is still young , make it their business jealously to guard her brittle good name as a chaste woman . |
| 20 | Nor are the individual publishers who are structuring their business specifically to develop direct supply . |
| 21 | Erm and so now rich peasants are actually actively seeking to join er associations but finding it difficult , I mean they have to be er pay an additional admission fee may be ten yuan or , or whatever , you know , usually far higher than the normal peasant or erm they have to get someone to actually put their name forward to say that you know they 're not such a bad bloke . |
| 22 | The police now hope to broadcast their video nationally to ram home the dangers of driving fast in fog . |
| 23 | So she gave up , and sat between the vines in the hot sun , alternately sleeping and working her way through the dusty volumes of Peregrine Pickle , bound in crimson and gold leather , with real bookworms making agitated forays from their dark crannies into the heat and light across the extraordinary scenes where Smollett 's elderly ladies retained their urine indefinitely to put out putative fires , or sweetened their foul breaths with violet cachous to deceive desired young lovers . |
| 24 | And overtures may be made to the visiting New Zealand Under-21 News side to also bring their game forward to make it a big evening double-header . |
| 25 | From the other side , an increasing number of social anthropologists are bringing their subject home to investigate small communities or self-contained sectors of western society , the traditional domain of sociologists . |
| 26 | Furthermore , even the archaic powers that had not started from the position of being nation-states were forced to compete ; the Tsars thrust their reach eastwards to block the British advance in Asia , to stop the other Europeans in China , and finally to try to halt the westward movement of Japan . |
| 27 | I should like hon. Members to give TECs not only their support but the time to develop their approach locally to see whether they can meet the high expectations that understandably now exist . |
| 28 | His ‘ Wares had left their billets and accomplished the first part of the plan , leaving some of their number behind to allay suspicions . |
| 29 | So everyone every everyone everyone should have a copy of the questions in their book just to tell what they 've worked on . |
| 30 | A 5-year MEng degree course in Electronics has been introduced for students who demonstrate their potential eventually to occupy posts of high responsibility in industry . |