Example sentences of "their [noun pl] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The severe psychological damage inflicted upon the captive Biros led them to tear themselves from their shackles and plunge into toilet bowls , become suicidally entangled about gear sticks or wrap themselves around handlebars . |
| 2 | It is of crucial importance that , while Social Services Departments , voluntary agencies , and professionals are adjusting their views and talking about issues relating to transracial adoption , the matter should be dealt with in a sensitive way . |
| 3 | In each case , however , corporate Japan 's response was a positive one , with companies restructuring their operations and emerging from the difficulties in a stronger position than before . |
| 4 | In response nearly 3,000 of her followers , members of the Church Universal and Triumphant , have packed their possessions and fled to 33,000 acres of church-owned land in Montana 's Paradise Valley . |
| 5 | Travellers stripped of their possessions and disappearing into castle dungeons , never to be heard of again . |
| 6 | Owen bellowed orders , and the bushes threshed as the Welsh circled their enemies and took to the thickest of the woodland on their way to the river valley . |
| 7 | Read their notes and check for any change in their condition . |
| 8 | They wept and clanked their chains and speculated on how it would feel to be eaten alive by the lions . |
| 9 | ‘ As for the Copts , I will cut their throats and dance in their blood . ’ |
| 10 | A few yards away , a group of police motorcyclists in their olive-green leathers lounged by their bikes and chatted with friends . |
| 11 | The new cars were a sensation when they first appeared , passengers let old cars pass in order to ride on them , and upon entering removed their hats and looked for a door mat ! |
| 12 | British companies , which are now considered to be leaders in the value-added sector , come to the show to expose their products and learn about this dynamic market . |
| 13 | The bishop was requested to advise them maturo consilio to restrain their passions and to come to terms with the Plantagenet administration in their quarrel over attacks upon ducal officers and subjects in the vicomté of Marsan . |
| 14 | Indeed , the fusion between economic and political goals , the fact that workers often did not draw a sharp line between protest against their employers and protest against the government , boded ill for liberal hopes of channelling worker discontent into peaceful , non-political waters . |
| 15 | These people would handle the household accounts of their employers and act as go-betweens with the local population . |
| 16 | But after dumping their loads and returning to Camp 3 at 24,000ft , the Darc Star team 's problems had only begun . |
| 17 | Thus by the mid-thirties the boundaries of the WEA 's sector of provision were becoming somewhat ragged margins as the other two better-funded and organised providers developed their policies and encroached into the territory of earlier voluntary endeavour . |
| 18 | At independence , the new governments had looked around for ways of publicizing their activities and seized upon the means to do so . |
| 19 | Ideally Reagan would have liked a more dramatic scenario whereby his armed forces , especially the US Marines , stormed the hostages ' hideout , killed their kidnappers and returned in glory with the stars and stripes held high . |
| 20 | Dundee United mastered the elements better than their opponents and had in Ferguson , Scott Crabbe and Paddy Connolly lively players who continue to give the impression that Jim McLean is not far off having a team capable of far better than has been seen from his club in recent seasons . |
| 21 | ( a ) Do the parties put forward programmes of policies ? ( b ) Do the programmes offer a meaningful choice ? ( c ) Do the winning parties actually implement their programmes and deliver of their mandate once in office ? |
| 22 | Do the winning parties actually implement their programmes and deliver of their mandate once in office ? |
| 23 | They were forced to turn back , part with their briefcases and leave by the main exit , enduring a search and the humiliation of the crowd . |
| 24 | She tied the strings of their aprons and did up their buttons , and she sat between them at their bread and milk breakfast which was at half past seven . |
| 25 | Some were dragged out of their cars and butchered by angry crowds in the street . |
| 26 | On 17 February , pollution levels in Tehran reached such a high level that citizens were asked to stop their cars and stay in their houses . |
| 27 | Yesterday West Yorkshire officers advised women to stay in their cars and wait for a patrol if they break down . |
| 28 | We 're asking the Councillors if they actually get out of their cars and get on buses and travel to and from council meetings and er shopping , that sort of thing for public transport . |
| 29 | A section of the road was shut for a week and motorists were warned to clean their cars and to dispose of the rags in plastic bags . |
| 30 | Most people stretch their legs and go into the stations . |