Example sentences of "the boys [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the boys dropped their look of unshakeable well-being and gaped . |
| 2 | The boys of Standard Seven did quite a clever act — there was a screen across the stage on which music had been painted — the notes were holes in the screen and the boys had their heads through these whilst in their mouths were small bazookas — small sound instruments . |
| 3 | because er train trains them the girls and the boys to turn their toes out , which is what we require in our society I believe . |
| 4 | You want the boys to use their hands more , so losing possession is not as critical a factor as in senior rugby . |
| 5 | But the Queen added that she could not allow the mother of the heirs to the throne influencing the way the boys saw their duty — William and Harry , would have to stay in Britain . |
| 6 | Across there , with the computer addicts and dirty video users , the boys building their own bombs , is nothing . |
| 7 | The evening arrived , the boys took their places , the master in a cook 's uniform stationed himself at the copper . |
| 8 | Let's hope the boys enjoyed their rest on Saturday . |
| 9 | The boys went their own way . |
| 10 | ‘ It gets a bit rough round here from time to time , there 's a power station out past the ridge and the boys do their drinking here , but mostly we 're pretty friendly . ’ |
| 11 | The boys do their bit as well , throwing out diseased white-outs of noise and drenching the most innocent of melodies in liquefied squalor . |
| 12 | ‘ The boys do their best , but the girls seem to be making a better job of it ’ gave the impression that boys ca n't dance as well as girls . |
| 13 | ‘ The boys do their best , but the girls seem to be making a better job of it ’ gave the impression that boys ca n't dance as well as girls . |
| 14 | The boys did their bit , too . |
| 15 | And , with the exception of one boy , the boys overestimated their rank . |
| 16 | We have considerable success with all the teams in the past few years , and even when not winning , the boys enjoy their football . |
| 17 | Now the boys have their own homes and Freda Berkeley is moving . |
| 18 | And when Hoggart turned his attention to the ‘ juke box boys ’ who were a recognisable strain of early Teds — ‘ boys between fifteen and twenty , with drape-suits , picture ties , and an American slouch ’ — even the slouch was , characteristically , identified as ‘ Americanised ’ and hence ‘ postwar ’ and ‘ un-British ’ , as the boys sipped their milk-shakes and tapped their feet to the music in their milk-bar rendezvous : |
| 19 | There was a cheerful , tearaway humour about their chatter , the boys ribbing their sister , and Kate , the old cook , saying , " My soul from the Devil ! |