Example sentences of "their [noun pl] and [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this point , Witney took the bit between their teeth and fought back in search of an equaliser . |
| 2 | They gathered their possessions and moved down to the cold , deserted taproom . |
| 3 | Most people 's income is taxed directly by their employers and handed on to the Inland Revenue , an arm of central government , under a system called Pay As You Earn ( PAYE ) . |
| 4 | He supervised several Rhodes scholars , who obtained their doctorates and went on to successful careers . |
| 5 | At the well they left their books and went down to the shore . |
| 6 | Then they pawed the ground like a circus pony , held their arms above their heads and twirled round like a gyroscope , and finally did a bumps-a-daisy only from the front instead of the back . |
| 7 | Molly and her husband covered their eyes and peered out towards the lights . |
| 8 | Passengers actually changed into their pyjamas and settled down for the night bunks or convertible seat-beds complete with sheets and blankets . |
| 9 | Earlier this year , in May , they voted for change , but when Noriega disavowed the election result the mass of the people shrugged their shoulders and went back to work . |
| 10 | Blackbirds hopped — and paused , heads to one side , then cocked their tails and took off with much commotion to sing full-throatedly from the treetops . |
| 11 | She spooned coffee into their cups and reached out for the kettle . |
| 12 | The three raiding parties laid up in the mountains during the day to observe their targets and descended on to the coastal plain as darkness fell . |
| 13 | The four men stripped to their swimming-trunks and walked out into the ocean surf . |
| 14 | Some of the men undressed to their loincloths and waded out into the cold water while others pushed the trees from the bank . |
| 15 | Many waverers must have reached for their chequebooks and signed on with a green campaign organization after hearing the latest pronouncement assuring them that there really was something to worry about . |
| 16 | The two approached sluggishly with their glasses and sat down at my table . |
| 17 | She , Carrie , and George grabbed their coats and fled out of the room and down the stairs . |
| 18 | After an hour the sun clouded over , so they picked up their things and started back towards the fence where they had left their bicycles . |
| 19 | Our visitors rose , said their farewells and walked off across the court again . |
| 20 | The editors revelled in the honour , ate their lunches and went back to their offices to continue publishing every last tit-bit they could find . |
| 21 | Derby 's Mark Pembridge , Andy Melville of Oxford and Portsmouth 's Kit Symons came safely through their games and joined up with the squad last night . |
| 22 | Except for that last year , when the blurred skelter of images would n't stay in their frames and played about with a kaleidoscopic frenzy . |
| 23 | There was little danger that his pictures ( which were valued at hundreds of pounds ) would devalue the currency or be torn out of their frames and passed off as real banknotes : his jury acquitted after retiring for only ten minutes . |
| 24 | When the daylight drained from the winter sky , like steel growing cold , some of the humans got into their vehicles and drove off down the lane . |
| 25 | Many of the men are black or half-caste descendants of freed Saharan slaves and I feel that what I am watching is not Islamic at root but a practice brought by their ancestors and grafted on to the religion . |
| 26 | The fire was not lit and the room did n't seem as cheerful and welcoming as it had the night before ; they broke their fast quickly on warm oat cakes and mulled wine , saddled their horses and rode back along the track to the highway . |
| 27 | The two boys picked up their pints and moved over to a couple of chairs by the fire , just vacated by an elderly couple . |
| 28 | They stretched their arms out to make wings and Preston swung an imaginary propeller and they made engine noises with their mouths and ran out of the hangar . |
| 29 | All around them people sat on their boxes and held on to precious bundles , patiently waiting for whatever might happen next . |
| 30 | The Wisharts read the remaining news in their papers and looked out of the window , the old lady was still silent and motionless . |