Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tells their story well enough ; she does n't seem shaky at all . |
| 2 | ‘ Women wore their hair very long in Victorian days , ’ |
| 3 | After an admirable talk by Geoffrey in the morning , we were all given the afternoon off before reassembling for a hula-hula party in the evening ( when off duty , staid Scottish lawyers are inclined to let their hair down even further than their English counterparts ) . |
| 4 | They 'll be pulling their hair out once |
| 5 | So they started their ministry off together , and I think it 's something quite special to me and to recognise that we have sent three people off on a journey and three people , two here , have come to the end of a journey and just part of the journey and are beginning to discover that will be discovered in the life of the three human beings , human beings |
| 6 | If anybody is successful in bringing in new work into the office , clearly that reflects in their achievements and their objectives , merely that reflects in their assessment so far as er their managers and are concerned and clearly that will will be reflected in their pay , so that will be the way that er we would normally tackle and that would be the way I I was prepared to tackle it . |
| 7 | They were asked to monitor their progress not only with scales but with a tape measure . |
| 8 | He told a news conference : ‘ I am very happy with their progress so far and I think they will continue to do well over the next few days . |
| 9 | But in the state they were in at present , both physically aroused , she trusted neither Luke nor herself should she prolong their presence here alone together in the tempting privacy of this suite . |
| 10 | In public he was urbane , and no one could have guessed that their presence here together was dictated by anything other than professional considerations . |
| 11 | They then said to their Dad that although they missed their Mum very much indeed , they were beginning to see that their Dad needed them around to have people to talk to about their Mum , and so now they were asking Jesus to make sure nothing else awful happened . |
| 12 | True the banks made hundreds of imprudent loans in the 1970s and early 1980s ; they could hardly get rid of their money fast enough and virtually begged Third World governments to take it off their hands . |
| 13 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 14 | The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich . |
| 15 | Worst of all , would their money once more drive them into a tolerant and easy separation ? |
| 16 | It struck her that they made their money very easily . |
| 17 | brought the downfall of the Asante nation and for this reason they had to bury their money underground so that more money was hidden underground than on the earth . |
| 18 | Of course , for family companies , such tax planning may have to be balanced against the shareholders ' natural desire to have their money as soon as possible ! |
| 19 | This form of destabilizing speculation took place in the hyper-inflation of Germany in the 1920s , as people spent their money as quickly as possible . ) |
| 20 | Most organisations owed money would rather make such an arrangement , and have their money back eventually , than run the risk of saying goodbye to the money altogether . |
| 21 | They want to be able to lend without having to search for a suitable borrower , and to get their money back quickly if their own need for liquidity changes . |
| 22 | They bridge the gap between the desire of lenders to be able to get their money back quickly , and the desire of borrowers to borrow for a long period . |
| 23 | Parents who succeed in adopting a child are likely to take the whole matter of their upbringing even more seriously and conscientiously than many who have given birth to their children . |
| 24 | The chairman of the Guardian and Manchester Evening News announced in his 1986 annual report that ‘ The Times now has a cost structure much lower than our own … we must get our own costs down to their level as soon as possible ’ . |
| 25 | Older people also consult their GP about twice as often as younger people . |
| 26 | Consider the immense energies slowly eating out their heart up there , ’ — he nodded upwards at the sun , dazzling westwards across the lake — ‘ and the Pentecostal flame which brings the gift of tongues . |
| 27 | They take the stranger to their heart less easily than the familiar friend . |
| 28 | But despite being forced to reshuffle their defence so early , Tranmere held out manfully with goalkeeper-skipper Eric Nixon making a string of fine saves . |
| 29 | Individuals make their response not as one man islands , but within a framework of family , group , community and national involvements . |
| 30 | Breeze and Gay had printed their handbills with great care , and had painted their board most beautifully — with the result that on the following Sunday afternoon the entire population of Overclyst and Clyst St George filed past Sunset Cottage in slow procession , gazing open-mouthed at the birthplace of such a surprising scheme . |