Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no term in their contracts entitling the employer to require that the employees move . |
| 2 | ‘ Better men than he have broken their teeth trying . ’ |
| 3 | Once few dared the wrath of Caledor , for their Dragonriders could ravage a foe 's armies and lands in hours , the great leathery wings of their mounts blotting out the sky with their numbers . |
| 4 | But the fire in them burnt like a bud of blue flame , swelling , growing , until they felt it would flame into a shower of stars , reaching into the velvet darkness , the little frail wobbly lights of their bikes signalling to the lights of the travelling plane , their mounts leaping up over humps , over rises in the road , up and away into the intoxicating night . |
| 5 | ‘ If introduced , it would be a boost right through the industry , particularly to breeders who can hopefully keep their operations going in this country . |
| 6 | During August and September that year , this same Squadron used its Fireflies on photo-reconnaissance missions against Tirpitz , the results of their operations leading to final destruction of the battleship by RAF Lancasters on November 12 , 1944 . |
| 7 | This is because they often do not hear their kittens calling to them and they ignore their cries for attention . |
| 8 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 9 | At the western head of Swaledale , Birk Dale , West Stones Dale and the beautifully named Whitsun Dale are tributary to the main dale , their becks joining below Wain Wath Force to become the river Swale , supposedly the fastest flowing river in England . |
| 10 | A few of the owners , like the Lorrimores and Daffodil and Filmer , had arranged their own transport separately in the shape of chauffeur-driven limousines , their chauffeurs coming over to the train to carry their bags . |
| 11 | There were fish lying damply in old wooden crates , their scales gleaming with the sickly colours of an oil stain , then rows of chickens with their throats cut , feathers clinging to the legs , and the sawdust was stained with blood and flies , and she began to run , frantic to reach the air outside and breathe . |
| 12 | Dragons dry out easily , their scales turning dusty and arid . |
| 13 | Yet the women worked non-stop , their fingers flying in a blur . |
| 14 | Then the hands of the stocking-masked men were on her , their fingers digging into the tender flesh of her arms . |
| 15 | She would n't want cats ' hairs on her clothes or their claws snagging her tights . |
| 16 | Some lizards climbed higher still in that primordial forest , their claws changing into fingers with opposing thumbs . |
| 17 | It was as if they were really desperate and they knickers round their ankles running into the toilet ! |
| 18 | Horses crashed past the wounded Lieutenant , their hooves spurting mud and road-flints into the air . |
| 19 | The four healthy children lay sound asleep , their breaths coming and going almost visibly in the light from the street lamp that came through the flowered cotton curtains . |
| 20 | Behind him were a crowd of men and horses ; Hearthwares in full armour , their breaths steaming in the coolness of the morning , Myrcans standing impassively , indifferent to the cold but nodding to Isay as he approached , and a pair of pack mules trying to bite each other 's manes . |
| 21 | Useful things for the community and not wasting their talents doing futile things . |
| 22 | Next comes a cowherd in a bright yellow uniform , carrying a richly carved wooden milking pail , cows with their bells jangling , a group of lusty yodellers , then the farmer , leading his bull by the nose . |
| 23 | His hands jerked her to him again as a group of jugglers pushed past , their clubs digging into her back so that she was forced to catch Lucenzo 's shoulders and lean hard against him , totally at his mercy . |
| 24 | He hoped that the tightly packed deuterium atoms would be set in motion , their nuclei bumping into one another and fusing . |
| 25 | Yet there is evidence ( for example in the numerous letters written to women 's magazines on educational matters ) that they believe themselves to have spent their school-days sitting at their desks reciting the multiplication tables and learning how to parse sentences in the English language . |
| 26 | This works even when recipients are away from their desks providing their PC is left on — ‘ far more efficient than sticking a Post-It note on their screen , ’ Richard smiled . |
| 27 | Though they spend most of their time at their desks managing field work and consulting senior officials in headquarters , they are in frequent contact with their staff . |
| 28 | There is no advantage in being governed by a collection of exhausted ministers doggedly sitting at their desks making bad decisions . |
| 29 | In the local Nag 's Head pub , Tony recounts his musical history with laddish brazenness , explaining how the four elements of East 17 ( including singing dancer Brian Harvey , dancing keyboardist John Hendry and rapping dancer Terry Coldwell ) were in the same gang , spending their schooldays bodypopping and bunking off , and generally going f— nowhere . |
| 30 | They hurtled past , just across the street , with their whistles blaring . |