Example sentences of "[noun pl] with their [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , when the eggs are about to hatch , he hops down to the edge of the pool and dips his legs with their burden of eggs into the water . |
| 2 | Migrants came in waves with their babble of tongues . |
| 3 | I looked up at the jumble of rooftops with their abundance of chimney-pots , the florid iron bal-conies at the dormer windows . |
| 4 | This , I must confess , is quite sexy , in the same way that young , handsome joiners with their belt of tools strung low round their hips can make an impressionable adolescent girl want to have shelves erected . |
| 5 | A GLITTERING CATCH : The winning anglers with their bag of trophies — Peter Cowan , Ian Sharp , Dave Paterson and Donald Munro . |
| 6 | These intermedii with their mixture of styles and resources , differing from earlier sixteenth-century dramatic or festive ones only in their lavishness , were not yet opera but they were the most important harbinger of opera , which just because of that mixture was gradually to supplant church music as the very heart of European music and hence establish Italian pre-eminence throughout the continent . |
| 7 | In thinking about the terms " active " and " contemplative " in medieval devotional writing , however , it is important not to confuse their use to designate outward life-styles with their designation of modes of being which enable argument about the purposes of man 's existence . |
| 8 | Even where money could be made through tourism by conserving forests with their complement of birds and other animals to attract visitors , the animals have been shot and agriculture has encroached . |