Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | who 're right down on their luck . |
| 2 | The buildings around here are right down on their knees . |
| 3 | Similarly his sermons were memorable less for their theology than for digressions ranging from the price of second-hand books to a dramatic reading from Macbeth . |
| 4 | Perhaps there is still hope that professional golf will move away from the humdrum format of 72-hole medals and the public will realise that these events become viewable only at their conclusion when they turn into match-play . |
| 5 | In the dirty , brutal and often painfully short life of a Goblin the chance of swooping through the air and smashing right through their enemies is just too good to miss . |
| 6 | Without a generally accepted code of manners life would become thoroughly uncouth and unpleasant , so parents need to pass this on to their children . |
| 7 | The M & S managers have long known and practised all this instinctively on their home ground : but that 's what happens when businesses move away from first principles . |
| 8 | Some people use this instinctively in their windsurfing in stronger winds and especially now that seat and waist harnesses are widely used . |
| 9 | The concession to the Bar is that any person called to the Bar will have rights of audience in all courts on completion of pupillage , dependent only on their compliance with rules of conduct made by the Bar . |
| 10 | When agents are few enough for their decisions to affect others , they are bound to behave ‘ strategically ’ — ie , take those effects , and the likely response of other agents to them , into account . |
| 11 | The children here were all considered old enough by their parents to understand a sympathetic explanation of the grounds on which the Reporter had referred their case to the Children 's Panel . |
| 12 | No praise is high enough for their efforts and the kindness shown to myself and my wife . |
| 13 | This conveys ‘ one of the mysterious paradoxes of copulation and procreation … : the overwhelming strength of a moment engenders events whose meaning will become clear only in their result in time ’ . |
| 14 | Moreover , since the end of the sixteenth century incoming cottagers had no common rights and were dependent entirely upon their labour for their living . |
| 15 | Too many families fail to get this over to their children and teachers are often left with too little energy for teaching after gaining class control . |
| 16 | The reality is that teachers do feel good about what they are doing , but that the occasions on which they do so are often conspicuous more by their rarity than their regularity . |
| 17 | ‘ They 're leveraged up to their ears , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Perry 's fags lay half out of their packet on the table , but I do not want to smoke . |
| 19 | By revealing it von Weizsacker hopes to shake the dunderheaded British out of their lethargy . |
| 20 | They demonstrate this partially by their support for the two nationalist parties , Sinn Fein and the Social Democratic and Labour Party , though support for the latter does not necessarily imply nationalism . |
| 21 | Her pelvis was cracked on her right side and her back broken , though neither she nor Ariel knew this yet in their attention to the burns she had received . |
| 22 | It was early on in their friendship that Joe Orton realized that Ken was ideal for the alleged policeman , Truscott — a man he freely based on Det. |
| 23 | They were all bored out of their minds , had nothing else to think about except bed . |
| 24 | With so much land to be disposed of , it was hard to make them put up with anything less than freehold tenure , and so it was almost impossible for the proprietors to make very much out of their estates . |
| 25 | Actually , gift-wrapped and escorted by A&M for this short promo tour of the US , the Kitchens ' destiny is pretty much out of their hands . |
| 26 | But surely there are no acts of introspection " that could in any intelligible sense be said to be identifiable independently of their objects , analogous to " acts of extrospection " . |
| 27 | The Singer System 9000 knitting machines are very versatile indeed in their design creation ability . |
| 28 | They could hardly be as nervous again with their UEFA date on Tuesday week in Geneva looming . |
| 29 | There were some women who simply had to take the unfortunate literally to their breast . |
| 30 | Trade and Economy Ministers of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries ( Canada , France , Germany , Italy , Japan , the United Kingdom and the USA ) met in Münster ( Germany ) on May 9-10 together with their counterparts from seven former Communist states of eastern Europe ( Byelarus , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Kazakhstan , Poland , Russia and Ukraine ) . |