Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [det] [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bernard gave me four new tyres for my own car as payment but kept saying , ‘ I 'm going to open a big factory one day and have you as works ' manager ’ . ’ |
| 2 | The monks ' election of their own prior as bishop had recently been quashed by Archbishop Langton , who almost certainly approved , though he may not have engineered , the election of Alexander . |
| 3 | Optimists had hoped the answer was that opposition would ebb of its own accord as evidence of growth began . |
| 4 | It is one of many indications of the limits , not only of Anselm 's notion of his own responsibility as archbishop , but of the concerns of the Church as a whole . |
| 5 | He had taken with him more badness than goodness , leaving not a vacuum , but a breathing space . |
| 6 | With his own voice as back-up , the 36-year-old actor might not seem quite so strained in still milking certain ‘ boyish ’ mannerisms . ’ |
| 7 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 8 | Mikhail Gorbachev , the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovietskogo Soyuza — CPSU ) , was elected to the new presidency on March 15 , having already served as executive President of the Soviet Union since May 1989 in his former capacity as Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet [ see p. 37297 ] . |
| 9 | I served on the Committee which dealt with what is now the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , in the hope that I could draw on my own experience as chairman of the Cardiff juvenile bench , and as someone who had worked with young offenders . |
| 10 | A heated debate followed in which Churchill , drawing on his own experience as Home Secretary nearly forty years earlier , led for the Opposition . |