Example sentences of "with [noun] [noun pl] [prep] their [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicandra and Lalage sat with carriage rugs over their knees in the back of the big car . |
| 2 | Success was supposed to be reserved for those with silver spoons in their mouths . |
| 3 | But he was careful to appeal to the have-nots against the privileged and college-educated ‘ who have been selling this nation out — the bright young men who are born with silver spoons in their mouths . ’ |
| 4 | As a con man he knew that paradoxically part of his appeal was his unsavouriness , so unlike the smooth Washington types with silver spoons in their mouths . |
| 5 | ‘ Some people are born with silver spoons in their mouths , but I had a question-mark in mine . |
| 6 | Here and there sat groups of army officers in baggy trousers and boots , with enamel medals on their chests . |
| 7 | The buses crawling through the gates seem empty , but curled up on the seats , on the floor are the recruits , some with plastic bags over their heads , others muffled incognito in scarves . |
| 8 | The central roundel is enclosed by an octagon framed by the squares , whilst , of the four subsidiary roundels , two have stylised dahlia with guilloche knots at their centres , and two have stylised lotus flowers with chequers . |
| 9 | Also worthy of note are the sixteen-petalled flowers with guilloche knots at their centres ( occupying " two of the four roundels at the centre of the saltire ) , the swastika lozenges , the lozenges with two heart-shaped petals , and , — as at the New Market Hall site , Gloucester , Halstock ( pI . |
| 10 | The main features of the remaining pavements are as follows : sixteen-petalled flowers with guilloche knots at their centres ; flowers with four heart-shaped petals where the interspaces of the petals are drawn out into stylised lotus buds ; and , most characteristically , pelta-urns with filled triangle bases , lotus tips , and tendrils with volutes . |
| 11 | Despite this Clinton is expected to increase the IRS staff allocated to transfer pricing cases and prohibit former government employees from negotiating with government agencies within their responsibilities for five years after leaving office . |
| 12 | He talked fast and fluently : everyone in television seemed to , Dexter reflected , as if they were born with cassette tapes in their mouths rather than tongues . |
| 13 | Against the wall were ranged , in regular array , a long row of elm boards cut into the same shape : looking , in the dim light , like high-shouldered ghosts with –heir hands in their breeches-pockets . |
| 14 | They 're big men , but stupid , covered with clay streaks on their bodies . |
| 15 | The six , Hispanics from 15 to 40 years old , were found face down with bullet wounds in their heads . |
| 16 | The pair danced with party hats in their pants then returned with two balloons each . |