Example sentences of "with their [noun] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking right then left he saw the signals with their warning lights reassuring him of their presence . |
| 2 | Only Lewis and Jarvis will return with their bowling reputations enhanced . |
| 3 | Perhaps it could also be blamed on having flicked past hundreds of dull photos of them in The Scots Magazine over the years , showing old men with their shirt sleeves rolled up , pointing at some rolling , lumpy , big hills with the caption reading , ‘ The mighty Cairngorms are a sight for sore eyes in any rambler 's book ’ . |
| 4 | Luke and Sonny had taken off their jackets and high hard collars and now sat with their shirt sleeves rolled up , the noon sun shining through the windows warming their backs . |
| 5 | Small boys in Yorkshire and Worcestershire , going out with their jam jars to collect newts and tiddlers , still talk of going out after ‘ asks ’ . |
| 6 | All my friends would be busy with their ink erasers trying to scrub me out of their address books . |
| 7 | Fortunately it still had its fields in the north , with their pipeline systems leading to Turkey and Syria . |
| 8 | In this , the auction house lends money to owners ( dealers or collectors ) with their art holdings serving as security . |
| 9 | If the Americans with their peace talks do get the parties together , their first business will be to arrange a truce so that food can move . |
| 10 | The official envelopes sent to voters with their ballot papers had contained sheets giving de Gaulle 's reasons for a " yes " vote ( but never any reasons for a " no " vote ) . |
| 11 | Although many Carlists and Falangists naturally disliked the Unification , with their fighting men busy at the front there was little they could do to resist it , especially since they shared the general Nationalist respect for ‘ authority ’ . |
| 12 | Car owners now take turns to enter the city centre , those with their registration plates ending in odd numbers one day , and even numbers the next . |
| 13 | Already there was the smell of roast beef and the white-coated cooks stood by with their carving knives waiting to hack the poor beast up and put him between a thousand Yorkshire teacakes . |
| 14 | His glasses with their steel frames made his eyes look chilly , merciless . |
| 15 | At 1500 hours a dozen light aircraft swept up Faetten Fjord in line astern , at about 600 ‘ ft ‘ to 1,000 ‘ ft ‘ , with their landing lights blazing against the dull sky . |
| 16 | The bars admit to standing room only ( early birds perch on stools ) , and the extensive lounges with their arm chairs set in fours soon fill to capacity . |
| 17 | With their material resources diminished , and fears for their physical safety dampening such vital initiatives as rebuilding and continued cultivation ( for who would carry out such tasks when the risks of further loss and destruction were high ? ) , civilians became a political , and even a financial liability to their king . |
| 18 | The number of people more than six months in arrears with their mortgage payments rose from 8,420 in 1979 to 41,900 in 1984 and to 45,840 at the beginning of 1988 . |