Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they complain about ‘ stress ’ they are not saying they want to spend the rest of their lives lazing about in the sun being brought rum bamboozles on a silver tray ( though the idea has its appeal ) . |
| 2 | For thousands of children who spend their days locked up in the shanty towns while their parents work , the streets offer freedom and escape from domestic violence as well as a springboard to prostitution or petty crime . |
| 3 | The committee of six ( nearly all their names turn up in the 1910 sample ) organized a programme which included songs such as " The Old Countree " , and " Flight of Ages " , sung by Misses Forrest and Waugh ; the opportunity to dance quadrilles and waltzes ; and a pianoforte selection by Miss Thomson , who was , like most of the other performers , a compositor . |
| 4 | When they saw Frick , whom they had been told to expect , the Sturmabteilungen snapped to attention , their arms held out in the traditional Nazi salute . |
| 5 | United to continued to prove to press forward but found their moves breaking down in the visitor 's penalty area . |
| 6 | One in five British parents let their children play out in the summer sun wearing no form of sun protection at all . |
| 7 | She could see the Women now too , their cloaks whipping out in the gusts of fire . |