Example sentences of "their [noun] [vb pp] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Characteristic of Lanzarote are the numerous cones of extinct volcanoes , their surfaces smoothed and round by the dry , fierce winds heading out across the Atlantic from the Moroccan Sahara . |
| 2 | I also make the rule that , before a person has had a turn , they sit with their legs crossed and afterwards place them out in front . |
| 3 | For some of these guys , maybe in the fifties or 60 years old , it could mean the difference between having their homes repossessed or not , ’ he said . |
| 4 | A gimmick highlighting the plight of people losing their homes backfired when more than 100 complaints flooded into the charity and the Advertising Standards Authority . |
| 5 | This was to encourage people to work through until their department moved and also so that R.S. left the impression of being a caring employer with those who chose redundancy . |
| 6 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 7 | Well before I got married I had this I had this fucking dream that we could n't get our hairs done , all the girls could n't their hairs done because nowhere was open . |
| 8 | For some time there have been rumours that the urbs have been solving the problem by having their foxes caught and surreptitiously turned loose in remote rural areas . |
| 9 | Emily caught sight of the shoemaker 's daughter , a basket over her arm , and for a moment their eyes locked and then Emily looked away . |
| 10 | She looked at him , their eyes met and quickly she looked away again . |
| 11 | For one unbelievable moment their eyes met and once again it was as if they had stepped back into their own circle of magic . |
| 12 | She stumbled off the edge of the concrete path , and immediately his flashlight was directed towards the ground and at the same time he pressed her arm more tightly into his side , and like this they walked on until they reached the wood , and there their steps slowed and quietly he asked , ‘ Where 's he gone tonight ? ’ |
| 13 | To actually have their feet washed and then go down and wash somebody else 's ? |
| 14 | ‘ Not in so many words perhaps , ’ said Mark , ‘ but they do manage somehow to make their wants known and perhaps even more persistently than we do . ’ |
| 15 | Whether their sites shifted or not , everywhere towns became transformed by the great churches and the smaller shrines built both near their centres and in their suburbs in the fourth and fifth centuries . |
| 16 | A quarrel ensues in which the television characters argue that they are more deserving of prayer than novelistic characters because the latter have a far longer life ; the characters from novels insist that only they need their existences reinforced because only they are in danger of losing their audience . |
| 17 | Five minutes later , however , she became only too aware of other members of staff who were trickling into the social club as their shift ended and suddenly , mindful of the interpretation that had been put on her being with David Markham on the last occasion they had visited the club , she finished her drink and stood up . |
| 18 | She 'd heard stories about people being attacked and their handbags stolen and so decided not to walk across town alone . |
| 19 | In its question ( 4 ) referred to the court for a preliminary ruling in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) , the national court seeks essentially to establish whether the principle of legitimate expectation precludes the introduction of new registration conditions such as those at issue from having the effect that fishing vessels duly registered in a member state have their registration withdrawn and hence their right to fish and to fish against the catch quotas allocated to that member state . |
| 20 | John Smith was now committed to clobbering the poor by reversing their tax cut as soon as Labour got in . |
| 21 | Not everyone has their father betrayed and then executed . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ In this way boys and girls would get ample opportunity of guidance as to their choice of careers , and those who were going to be apprenticed or learn skilled trades might have all their arrangements made while still at school . ’ |
| 23 | Well in the last 2 days Firmin and Antonio have been getting more and more hostile ( which is n't hard to do given how Charlie and Matt are currently feeling about one another ) and you could really sense the Indians getting involved , following it all from their part of the raft as if their lives depended on it — which in a way they did I suppose because we were arguing about whether they had the right to be baptised and have their souls saved or not . |
| 24 | It is the same workers in the public sector who have had their employment privatised and further marginalised . |
| 25 | Sociologists wanted to have their results accepted as scientifically accurate , have worked in the same way , but not always successfully , when dealing with people , is not always to easy to think of all the things which may affect the result . |
| 26 | Although it is not possible to list here the groups , individuals and parishes who have helped us so far , I wish all to know that not only is their contribution needed but also greatly appreciated . |
| 27 | Oh ca that 's only where they had to be you put the wee rubber mouthpiece in you see to keep your mouth open so that 's easy to open your mouth , sometimes people clamp their mouths closed and then they ca n't get their teeth out . |
| 28 | Many pregnant teenagers delay making their pregnancy known until too many months have passed to do anything but have the baby . |