Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb past] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reckons he needs between 50 and 100 people in the next few weeks , presumably all drawn from the 300 or so that lost their jobs when his first company closed its doors . |
| 2 | In fact , the skirmish never took place because the enemy crossed the river further upstream and took their objective ‘ by the back-door ’ . |
| 3 | The Council men and women came in and took their places at the Star Table . |
| 4 | Not people that could that can defend themselves that can what 's the name of it if they could Well they 've broken old people 's doors in and took their money and and hit them and whatsername . |
| 5 | The big US cosmetics acquisitions came in and washed their interest cost face . |
| 6 | The men went in and stated their case to the man in charge , but he merely informed them that they would get nothing immediately and that they were to come back when their money had gone . |
| 7 | The men climbed in and pushed their way through the animals towards Leeming . |
| 8 | The market research people moved in and pronounced their findings . |
| 9 | British and Empire troops dug in and organized their defences so rapidly that all German counter-attacks the following day were thrown back and even more ground gained . |
| 10 | Pensioners at the Wesley Court community centre , in Darlington , were left singing the blues when thieves broke in and stole their favourite karaoke machine . |
| 11 | But he had just slid his key into the lock , simply strolled in and shattered their precious time . |
| 12 | These young teenagers all millions of them all in this group that came down and took their bras and oh |
| 13 | The three friends sat down and enjoyed their favourite pastime — eyeing up the women in the theatre-bar . |
| 14 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 15 | The faithful knelt down and placed their heads on the ground : La Allah illah Allah , Muhammad Resul-allah ! |
| 16 | Passengers screamed , but the Hunters , now increased in numbers to twenty or thirty , flew down and sank their claws and teeth into the injured and dying . |
| 17 | The hapless pair parked their hired van outside the LA offices of BMG , their US distributors , went upstairs for two minutes , came back down and found their gear , money , their original '60s clothing and instruments had been nicked . |
| 18 | They planted food and medicinal plants , migrated seasonally and moved their villages . |
| 19 | They did so and informed their clients of what they had discovered ; they then returned the papers . |
| 20 | That has now changed Eastern arts no longer support the gallery now one obvious reason for that is the gallery started so well because of the enthusiasm from a number of professional people who came along and gave their advice and much of their time and such a body of people has not been called upon for a number of years now and once again a request to discuss this with Mr was refused . |
| 21 | They unsheathed together and brought their swords forward two-handed into guard . |
| 22 | They said that in a political situation , if you had one side you could call it the thesis , say capitalism was the thesis and communism was the other side and that was the antithesis and that these two would one another and it was only when they came together and got their good points both of them adopted , that one was really going to get a satisfactory solution . |
| 23 | The exception is an instructive one , because the Irish priests lived at much the same social and economic level as their flock ; they held their communities together and sustained their faith in a way that only Dissenting ministers in Wales and remoter parts of England were able to do . |
| 24 | He and Crawford got together and organized their own stage act , which included a few of their own songs . |
| 25 | They meet monthly in each others homes to share their experiences over a simple shared meal , pray together and deepened their understanding of marriage , family life and their faith . |
| 26 | Thanks to the ample marble supplies at their disposal , they perfected their craft constantly and asserted their skills by producing all kinds of sculpture that blended earlier sources of inspiration with trends , styles and techniques of the times in which they lived . |
| 27 | Rather than ramming the trainers with the guns , the dolphins either " swam away or put their snouts on the trainers ' shoulders — very affectionately ! " |
| 28 | Sometimes , where occupation is particularly dense , there is little or no evidence for any associated property to the rear , suggesting that their occupants either worked land elsewhere or derived their livelihood from other specializations . |
| 29 | One by one the watching men turned away and made their way silently to their vehicles . |
| 30 | The twins at this point turned hurriedly away and bit their lips . |