Example sentences of "their [noun pl] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm , on four , er , again I do n't know what pigeon fanciers or pigeon er , what their views are on this , but you see , this is another European directive erm , there is a risk it says of this disease being airborne , it can be airborne , and it was shown that racing pigeons could introduce the disease to commercial flocks . |
| 2 | On the first point , local authority tenants who bought their homes are among those least likely to have been repossessed . |
| 3 | None of your navel-lint , tit-licking pen-fuckers so infatuated with the twitchings of the ego they remain sublimely indifferent to the obscene fact that their words are worth less than the flies tormenting the eyelids of an African child . |
| 4 | yes they 're both totally shame less and their heads are like that , Lucy come and see say hello to . |
| 5 | They were to be weighed under water to measure their body density , but plans for vigorous treadmill tests may have to be shelved because their feet are in such pain . |
| 6 | But there 's one thing to be sure of ; their hearts are in this game for keeps . |
| 7 | I would also be interested to know what other paths they had walked and what their perceptions were of these compared to the Staffordshire Way . |
| 8 | Their properties are in some ways intermediate between those of the skeletal muscles and the smooth muscles found in other phyla . |
| 9 | Their bodies are in such harmony . |
| 10 | A mass screening of residents then assessed what proportion of the lead in their bodies was of this isotope . |
| 11 | And she was on his knee , and their arms were round each other , and though the sun had gone down the garden at that moment was glorious , full of a blaze of splendour that surrounded them like a halo . |
| 12 | If their attackers were in any strength it would not take them long to get through . |
| 13 | They waited for the priest to pass along with the thin wafer of bread and while they did so their hands were like this , cupped and raised in a gesture that might be offering or receiving . |
| 14 | The look on their faces is like that on the faces of parents at Christmas time , when they know what the presents are and you do n't . |
| 15 | And their faces , their faces were above all beast-like . |
| 16 | Picasso 's extensive series of variations on Las Meninas was produced in 1957 , but even if Gironella knew of them when he himself began to work on versions of Velázquez ( which is highly unlikely , as Picasso 's paintings were not exhibited until 1959 ) ; even though their interest in the art of the past at that point in their careers was for both , perhaps , a rejection of abstraction ; and even though both can in some way be defined as exiled from their Spanish roots , as outsiders looking in — — yet the results are widely divergent . |