Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone bundled their possessions together and talked about where they would like to stay . |
| 2 | She felt him lace their fingers together and trembled with a strange mixture of excitement and trepidation . |
| 3 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |
| 4 | This does not mean that they conduct their audits negligently or sacrifice their independence by condoning accounting treatments that are demonstrably wrong . |
| 5 | Unless hardware maintenance providers broaden the range of services they offer , position their products correctly and market them right , they will not succeed in today 's hardware market , which is dropping in value more rapidly than previously predicted . |
| 6 | Would not it have been more sensible to request all those concerned with the project to put forward their plans together and subject them all to just one public inquiry ? |
| 7 | The process will necessarily be a dynamic one with DHAs updating their plans annually and modifying their pattern of contracts both to reflect changing needs and to respond to new services becoming available from current or alternative providers . |
| 8 | He was Housemaster of Arden , and though forbidden by an old war wound from taking too boisterous a part in the sporting events of the House , yet he followed their activities closely and gave appropriate advice and encouragement . |
| 9 | The actin cable provides a novel way for epidermal cells to coordinate their activities so as to close gaps , fulfilling their function as a self-repairing barrier layer . |
| 10 | Without further hesitation they gathered their sticks together and boarded the five Bristol Bombays , squeezing themselves into the fuselages among the piles of equipment that were to be dropped with them . |
| 11 | Chatterton pulled their legs slightly and said they had better be careful not to get on the wrong side of you again and Glastonbury did n't know what the hell anyone was talking about . |
| 12 | One group have lost their legs altogether and taken to burrowing underground . |
| 13 | At present , RTV is intended as a development tool allowing applications developers to capture their images digitally and model a DVI application on their magnetic hard disc which they then can run and verify before sending video away to Intel 's US laboratories for processing to full PLV quality . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , for the scientists running the rehabilitation centres it is still a question of persuading the owners to surrender their captives rather than ordering them to do so . |
| 15 | His camp followers have been nodding their heads sagely and saying that all is not yet over and Hezzy may not be destined to live out his political life amid the ruins of the Department of the Environment — once he 's pulled it down , that is . |
| 16 | They hold their heads tight when coughing because of the splitting headache . |
| 17 | The consequence is that Broad Lane 's two largest personalities have banged their heads together and come up with an undisclosed compromise in an effort to prevent Wivenhoe 's first relegation in 30 years of undiluted success . |
| 18 | The women put their heads together and agreed that it would be no bad thing if Loverin laid on hard with his strap . |
| 19 | The world summit for children which took place at the weekend caught the headlines around the world and the world 's leaders put their heads together and agreed that children all round the world are suffering and something must be done about it . |
| 20 | His long term objective is to re-establish the economic basis of Berlin by persuading researchers of industry to put their heads together and devise some new products . |
| 21 | I felt a perverse , and entirely unfair , urge to bang their heads together and tell them it was their duty to be depressed and scruffy like me . |
| 22 | The most revealing thing he said , though , was that his image of rugby is a lot of guys putting their heads together and getting dirty and drinking beer after the game . |
| 23 | Some , ‘ … wiser than the rest , lay their heads together and resolved in council to be before-hand ’ and went with picks and shovels and opened the land around the monument to a depth of six feet . |
| 24 | If we can proceed along a sensible line and if Buckinghamshire and Berkshire county councils lock their heads together and produce a worthwhile scheme , that is fine . |
| 25 | Was it a two-way respect — had the two got their heads together and decided it might be beneficial to Travis to send him out of the country for a short while ? |
| 26 | So uncovered their eyes again and peered at the sun-god through their lashes . |
| 27 | They undressed in the dark , in gathering panic , and fell into bed and closed their eyes tight and pretended to snore . |
| 28 | Buyers will bargain hard to cut the cost of the house they want , but dig in their heels rather than reduce their own asking price . |
| 29 | Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults . |
| 30 | Let it grow automatically as new groups of traders and merchants directed their steps there and decided eventually to settle and build there . |