Example sentences of "their [noun] and [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vehicles that make up a cruise missile flight will emerge regularly from their base and drive around the countryside to practise . |
| 2 | He returned their wave and gazed down the sun dappled ribbon of bright water as it meandered its way towards Sharpness docks a couple of miles distant . |
| 3 | So often they have to pay the price of innovations , and those who watch their activities and pick out the most promising , usually devise the most profitably and sustainable systems . |
| 4 | In keeping with these objectives departments were ‘ called upon to examine the way they managed all aspects of their programmes and to work out the best pattern of managerial responsibility , financial accounting and control ’ ( ibid. , para. 14 ) . |
| 5 | They picked up their skis and disappeared down the Vallée Blanche . |
| 6 | Tourist backpackers chattering in high tones ; theatre-/supper-goers gazing nervously at the cluster of dishevelled , ruby-faced lads who wave their cans and bawl out the rallying cry of ‘ 'Ere we go , ‘ ere we go ! ’ at alarming volume ; a comatose figure lying on the bucket seats and crying out an important but indecipherable message about some quite obvious connection betwixt Jesus and Aids ; in the corner a girl with dishevelled hair and a soiled James Dean T-shirt sprawled on the concrete and a man with bloodied chin mouthing profanities as he urinates against the wall . |
| 7 | Members are invited to log on to their computers and call up the Heisei menu . |
| 8 | The presence of ice withdraws water in vapour form from distal cells , concentrating their solutions and building up the extra-cellular crystals . |
| 9 | The head of the family rested his knife and fork on their heels and looked down the table . |
| 10 | They turned on their heels and started back the way they 'd come . |
| 11 | They lifted her gently onto their shoulders and moved down the chapel . |
| 12 | Today , five hundred million years after those jawless armour-laden creatures began to wag their tails and blunder over the muddy bottoms of the ancient seas , the fish have evolved into some 30,000 different species . |
| 13 | Five minutes treatment in a fresh water bath ( N.B. this must be dechlorinated , well-aerated and adjusted to within 0.2 pH units of the aquarium water using pH adjuster or sodium bicarbonate and an accurate pH kit/meter ) will cause the flukes to release their hold and drop off the fish . |
| 14 | No doubt , in his constituency office and at his surgery at this very moment , impatient constituents are waving their charters and working out the waiting time that they have to put in while the hon. Gentleman is in London delivering a good speech . |
| 15 | Most of the front row jumped to their feet and fled up the aisle away from the danger . |
| 16 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 17 | ‘ Luckily we were on to their plan and switched off the power before we moved in . ’ |
| 18 | The days of mad spending are gone and exhibitors are looking to cover their costs and pay back the bank as soon as possible . |
| 19 | He was forced into exile in the mid-70s , after the military government started a wholesale repression of the Indians by attacking their leaders and seizing back the land that they had struggled hard to reclaim under the previous regime . |
| 20 | ‘ We think these blackbirds must have lost their brood and taken on the bluetit chicks as substitutes . ’ |
| 21 | Those who suffer most are the prisoners who allow their mask to sink through all the layers of their personality and blot out the warm , loving , sorrowing parts of themselves . |
| 22 | OK , I often employ builders on the basis that they 've got an honest face only to find they 've nicked my buckets , added unnegotiated noughts on to their invoices and buggered up the plumbing but … |
| 23 | ‘ Juries are sympathetic towards people who have been provoked and who are defending their property and go over the top , ’ he says . |
| 24 | They may or may not be articulated in formal jargon or ‘ in languages ’ which restrict their currency and mark off the professional status or their practitioners , as in medicine and the law . |
| 25 | Intruding on a newly married couple sounded a textbook mistake when he surveyed it , but plainly both of them were glad he was there ; he could see it in their faces and ran up the platform with joy , not shy at all about the reflection of his hurtling bulk in the glass of a newsagent 's stall . |
| 26 | of course , what most people do is , when they 've sold their house and paid off the mortgage , they take out another mortgage and , and buy another house , because they need one to live in . |