Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [prep] [pers pn] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , the Jews inspected the stars by night , turned their eyes towards them and invoked them in their prayers . |
| 2 | Her eyes roamed over the chattering women , all fawning over him , tossing their heads , slanting their eyes at him and laughing prettily . |
| 3 | In conversation , people do not fix their eyes on you and make notes : they are informal and natural , while talks are set piece , formal occasions . |
| 4 | Jackie motioned to them to help him and all three put their shoulders to it and pushed . |
| 5 | well they were they was rolling in all the muck in the farmyard but they , they went to the pies just put their noses round them and turned them over and then they s and true as god made little apples they started walking round these pies and they left them and they were still there when we went away . |
| 6 | It is often said that children have their lives before them and to die before they have had a chance to develop their personalities and lives seems particularly cruel . |
| 7 | They clamp their jaws on it and hang on , martyring themselves for the sake of the colony . |
| 8 | Nobody put their arms around me and said , ‘ Is n't this wonderful ? ’ ’ |
| 9 | So after they had fasted and prayed , they placed their hands on them and sent them off . |
| 10 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 11 | After three or four pages , he found himself wandering the streets or pacing anxiously through some park he did n't even recognize , twitching and murmuring strangely to himself while mothers , at the sight of him , drew their children to them and stole softly away across the grass . |
| 12 | Erm there were new passageways , erm the management er er applied their thoughts to it and altered the , the layout and certain machines were , were put to one side of the machine shop and , and milling machines to the other side you know . |
| 13 | By 1960 all Soviet technicians had been recalled , taking their blueprints with them and leaving the factories to be finished as best they could be . |