Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [det] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 2 | In addition to the national objectives such as Health of the Nation , Patient 's Charter and Caring for People , NEHA has identified specific targets of its own for the coming year . |
| 3 | Questions are frequently divided into two or more parts , and this division raises difficulties of its own for the inexpert candidate . |
| 4 | The boy was going to the boxroom and was clearly excited at possessing a room of his own for the first time . |
| 5 | And the issue was still very much alive , for here beside him , listening alertly and with a dry little smile , was the earl of Leicester , who , whether in earnest or in mischief , was urging a plea of his own for the same prize . |
| 6 | Outmoded by the plastics for smaller kites , it comes into its own for the big stuff as , for example , replica Cody man lifters , or the large Baden-Powell ‘ Levitor ’ where , in turn , it replaces the bamboo spars in the original pioneer designs . |
| 7 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 8 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 9 | Liz , a 25-year-old single woman , had been living on her own for the previous year in a flat above a small craft shop that she ran together with her mother . |
| 10 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 11 | Finally , my renewed thanks to you all for the generous support you have given to your parishes and the diocese as a whole . |
| 12 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 13 | I 'm glad you wo n't be on your own for the first night . |