Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [det] for [art] [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 | A narrow matching fabric belt covers the gently elasticated waistband , and can be alternated with belts of your own for a contrasting effect . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She 's been with us all for a long time . |
| 9 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 10 | Durie said : ‘ I 've been up front on my own for a few games . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The library staff can manage on their own for a little while , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Finally , my renewed thanks to you all for the generous support you have given to your parishes and the diocese as a whole . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When the initial excitement has subsided , settle down on your own for a closer and more critical showing . |
| 19 | I 'm glad you wo n't be on your own for the first night . |
| 20 | He was like just being an adviser , he was n't like trying to design it , and I looked at it all for a long time and I said Bembo , which I had never heard of . |