Example sentences of "[adv] with their [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Several Veterans ' of the Winter of discontent' told me that it was mainly the younger students who got together with their teachers to protest . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The terrified inhabitants are either burned or led away with their hands tied to be held for ransom . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We 'll take them out in the car , go for a ride , and leave them somewhere with their throats cut . |
| 7 | Two cars were moving towards the house , both with their lights turned off . |
| 8 | They all went limping past with their scutums sagging in disarray , and all the dogs and urchins in the neighbourhood chasing after them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Dr Mohamed Hussein , the doctor in charge , says : ‘ We 're getting one-year-old babies in here with their stomachs blown out by bullets . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Elsewhere , buildings were entirely of timber-framed construction , either with their sills set into prepared trenches ( E ) or resting upon the ground surface ( F ) or based upon timber posts set into individual pits ( G ) or in linear trenches ( H ) . |
| 15 | When people adept at hypnosis sit quietly with their eyes closed , they may spend more time sending out alpha waves than people who are ‘ bad ’ hypnotic subjects . |
| 16 | Then we asked the students to sit quietly with their eyes closed and think about the costs . |