Example sentences of "their [noun pl] and [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scorpions are carnivorous and feed mainly on insects which they catch with their claws and then kill by stinging . |
| 2 | Such customers generally provide information to the Bank on flows on their accounts and hence help in the process of predicting the cash position in the money market . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the separated and isolated prisoners , having no ‘ back regions ’ in which to hide , reflect on their sins and eventually emerge as reformed characters . |
| 4 | The canons erected this burly structure at the close of the 12th century , and gained isolation both to recite their offices and perhaps to escape from damp and cold below ; a wide staircase and a gentle gradient took them through the thickness of the N wall . |
| 5 | The opposition leaders were arrested , most of them roused from their beds and quietly transferred to the prison of Mazas . |
| 6 | They sketched their ideas and then looked for clothes to match . |
| 7 | The room , which overlooked the booking hall or the station , was large enough for their purposes and grandly panelled in mahogany . |
| 8 | Sara showed them their rooms and then went to her own to tidy herself up , leaving them to their own devices . |
| 9 | The Types of Space section is particularly informative and should stimulate communities to identify the green areas in their neighbourhoods and hopefully lead to a greater appreciation of them . |
| 10 | Faced with mortgages charged at 15.4 per cent and higher , borrowers could n't afford to keep up their payments and so fell into arrears . |
| 11 | These are songs stripped to their basics and then adorned with beautifully hooked melodies and harmonies . |
| 12 | Only among the poor , the retainers who had accompanied their masters and later fallen from favour , or among the half-caste children brought up by superstitious mothers true to their old faith , did the little goddess of love and war retain a true following . |
| 13 | This was particularly so on the Sunday when , in scorching heat , Brazilian fans ‘ danced , sang , shouted and screamed hysterically for every point scored by their players and ever fault by Germany 's Markus Zoecke , standing in for heat-stroke victim Becker , in what proved to be the decisive fourth rubber . |
| 14 | Parents can start to hate their children and progressively withdraw from any pleasant and enjoyable contact with them . |
| 15 | You had heroes scotch-taped to their horses and lightly sprinkled with dust . |
| 16 | However , as soon as the crew saw the lifeboat they hurried along the deck with their suitcases and immediately scrambled over the side onto the lifeboat ! |
| 17 | The other four needed the assistance of votes transferred from their competitors and painfully accumulated in six , seven or eight successive counts . |