Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has fertility changed mostly because successive cohorts each grow up with their own characteristic attitude to childbearing ( ‘ cohort ’ effects ) , or do families respond in a more opportunistic way to the economic and social opportunities or problems of the moment ( ‘ period ’ effects ) ? |
| 2 | WHAT WE ‘ post ’ feminists need are more men like Tony who are prepared to stand up in their men 's self-help groups — instead of wasting space on the semen-stained women 's page — and acknowledge together that they are basically ‘ sacks of scum ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Few human geographers seem willing to come out of their national shells and take the wider view which would enable them to understand what is going on within their own countries ’ ( Thrift , 1986 , 62 ) . |
| 4 | Some drive back in their own cars . |
| 5 | But you have n't seen how all this ties in with their long-term aims . |
| 6 | She had no illusions about why her children were so willing to shell out for their mother 's annual pilgrimage . |
| 7 | ‘ Irish political parties , and this includes Sinn Fein , must be prepared to assist the British to face up to their responsibilities regarding the Unionists and to face up to our responsibilities towards them also . |
| 8 | That spilled over to their behaviour towards the match officials . |
| 9 | Liverpool were content to hang on to their lead but manager Graeme Souness conceded : ‘ I said after Wednesday 's defeat by Spurs that we would play worse and win , and that was the case today . |
| 10 | ‘ The clothes were fit to stand up on their own , they were that stiff with dust and grease . |
| 11 | In these respects , it can certainly be claimed that the polytechnics have by and large measured up to their original specification . |
| 12 | The industry is working twice as hard to hold on to their share of advertising and is concentrating on giving readers even more for their money — quality editorial , more colour etc . |
| 13 | These arise out of their bargain ( I.e. their contract of sale ) . |
| 14 | And one of the reasons why the black women in Liverpool put this exhibition together erm and they tried to pick out different kinds of jobs that women had to show that black women could do those jobs , and they were saying look , there 's lots of stereotypes erm about the kinds of jobs that black and Asian women can do that fit in with their personalities , and you know the world is wide open and you are able to do this and you do n't have to be erm a singer or a model or erm or erm erm a runner , you know , the whole stereotypes in terms of what black people are good at and they 're saying let's break away from this , let's show the kinds of things that we can do and we can do anything that we set our minds to and erm the exhibition is very positive , actually . |
| 15 | The latter lived up to their name with gusto by getting helplessly drunk , being in a celebratory mood because they 'd signed their lucrative CBS contract that very afternoon . |
| 16 | Not content with being obsessive about failed British pop performers like Belouis Some and Matt Fretton ( who , as they will always tell you , were ‘ big in Japan ’ ) , these star victims get all steamed up about their own home-grown talent-free singers , which the record companies churn out year after year . |
| 17 | I ca n't have them all trooping out in their wedding finery looking for me . ’ |
| 18 | While they all climb back into their ancient cars I take Rufus aside for a talk . |
| 19 | They all came back through their agents and complained and I told them to forget it . |
| 20 | She will lunch with selected guests in the new council offices , and an hour beforehand they are all turned out in their best suits and dresses fidgeting in anticipation . |
| 21 | All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape . |
| 22 | And the brothers who are getting all steamed up about their driving test . |
| 23 | and they 're all going down with their little cards in their hands as they |
| 24 | They 're all wrapped up in their feathers like old men in blankets trying to keep warm . |
| 25 | In the folk and country fields , Don Williams , Martin Carthy and James Taylor are also spending evenings in , all cuddling up to their TA100R 's ( Queensrÿche have a pair of the same amps , but they 'd probably deny the cuddling bit ) . |
| 26 | Some parents complain that they feel rather awkward going up to their child , when ( for example ) she is not behaving badly , in order to say , ‘ You are painting so nicely , I really feel pleased ’ . |
| 27 | Just above its melting temperature a polymer behaves like a highly viscous liquid in which the chains are all tangled up with their neighbours . |
| 28 | They all look down into their brandy , embarrassed at the turn the conversation has taken . |
| 29 | People who are under medical direction to lose weight or quit smoking may likewise be quite rightly unwilling to give in to their impulses . |
| 30 | Oh they 're all lit up across their car . |