Example sentences of "[adv] with their [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They put clean nightdresses on , and they straighten their bed , and then they lie down with their hands crossed on their chest . |
| 2 | A few days later , the storm became so violent that sheep became buried in six-foot drifts of snow , and the camera recorded farmers scrabbling down with their hands to release buried sheep , pin-pointed by amazingly perceptive border collies . |
| 3 | To save space he and Angela had been packed in with their faces jammed against each other 's feet . |
| 4 | One writer described couples entering and leaving church in the 1870s as ‘ cool and businesslike , as though having paid the deposit on the purchase of a donkey or a handsome barrow , they were just going in with their witnesses to settle the bargain ’ . |
| 5 | Once or twice when she crept down to the turn in the stairs to see if it was safe to go and get something to eat , she was scared back by the murmur of unfamiliar voices , and saw three or four bicycles parked in the hall , leaning together with their pedals tangled in each others ' spokes , forming an intricate barrier to outside . |
| 6 | Several Veterans ' of the Winter of discontent' told me that it was mainly the younger students who got together with their teachers to protest . |
| 7 | Well , I , I think it 's a sound idea , I think it 's sad at a time of local government reorganization when we 're likely to see authorities getting smaller , and yet the , the issues wo n't get any smaller , and the new authorities may well be having to look at ways of getting together with their neighbours to look at strategies which cover areas of the sort of size of the old county areas , and also getting together to , to , to meet , erm , organizations which will still on county-size boundaries , like Techs , and , and similar . |
| 8 | The terrified inhabitants are either burned or led away with their hands tied to be held for ransom . |
| 9 | Each tried desperately to grip the other , but it was impossible , and they were forced to lay perfectly still with their genitals interlocked until she was conscious of his emission shooting inside her oil-drenched love passage . |
| 10 | The idea of having the person attaching the cable ask if the airbrakes are closed and locked has been introduced in some clubs to try and prevent incidents where pilots take off with their airbrakes unlocked . |
| 11 | Although York ended up on 18 points , equal to their main rivals , West Park ( Bramhope ) , they were 31 points better off with their points scoring differential . |
| 12 | Everybody goes off with their wives to celebrate except Antonio . |
| 13 | We 'll take them out in the car , go for a ride , and leave them somewhere with their throats cut . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , the Conservatives are still pressing on with their plans to stand in all 17 constituencies in Northern Ireland and to give the electorate the chance to accept or reject their programme for governing the country . |
| 15 | Occasionally , after a dance , they would decide to go swimming in the early hours of the morning , so all the cars would be lined up with their headlamps blazing to light up the pool . |
| 16 | Mr Hallam said he slid in for the tackle and they ended up with their legs tangled . |
| 17 | ‘ I hope you have all been practising during the holiday , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , as the girls all lined up with their brooms hovering next to them and the cats perched on the back — that is to say , most of the cats were perched on the back . |
| 18 | Two cars were moving towards the house , both with their lights turned off . |
| 19 | They all went limping past with their scutums sagging in disarray , and all the dogs and urchins in the neighbourhood chasing after them . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's maybe one or two references that are specifically cultural or culturally specific , but there 's guys in Botswana who are hanging out with their friends having fun and wanting girlfriends . |
| 21 | And they was hanging out the bottom , hanging out with their guns hanging over the edges . |
| 22 | I 've been particularly interested in the clumsy child , who has co-ordination , rhythm and timing difficulties , and I have written a booklet which is now available for parents and for teachers who are interested , for the age range five years to eleven years , which gives parents exercises to carry out with their children to encourage the child in overcoming difficulties with co-ordination , rhythm , timing , and to help them with speaking , writing and reading remediation . |
| 23 | People have entered its secret paths and entrances and have either never returned or , if they were fortunate enough to do so , came out with their minds mazed , their wits scattered . ’ |
| 24 | The Leeds said the number of borrowers 2-3 months behind with their mortgages fell 22pc on the previous year , roughly in line with national statistics . |
| 25 | The fishermen come back with their holds empty ; the islands have neither birds nor guano ; it is said that the strength of the smell of the gases from the millions of tons of decaying fish is such that it can blacken the hull of a passing ship — a phenomenon known as the Callao Painter . |
| 26 | Dr Mohamed Hussein , the doctor in charge , says : ‘ We 're getting one-year-old babies in here with their stomachs blown out by bullets . |
| 27 | Very few do this now ; although there are a number of mills to be seen , occasionally even with their sails turning , their stones rarely grind corn . |
| 28 | They prance about with their eyes closed , speaking in tongues . |
| 29 | He said ooh , he said there was some American students here last week and they were all swimming in there and the man came along with this thing and they bo they were all sat on the middle lo middle of there with their feet dangling in the water splashing away , he said I was dragging this down and this six footer came out , I said , and then they were he said , you 've never seen anybody run so fast in your life like they go |
| 30 | At the other extreme , there are many who have lost contact almost completely with their grandchildren following the death , or divorce and remarriage , of one of the parents . |