Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Señor Freitas coughed , before he said , ‘ Sometimes señoritas have families who want them to go back to their own country . ’ |
| 2 | Few of them got back to their own country . |
| 3 | DEC says it has no plans to licence its SVR4 work to other OSF/1 probables like Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , fully expecting them to come up with their own solutions in this area . |
| 4 | ‘ Before a new resident is admitted to this Home , I go out to their own home to make an assessment . |
| 5 | Ligachev argued that collective and state farms were still the backbone of the system and that most peasants did not want to leave them to set up on their own . |
| 6 | In turn , this creates even more secret cabals which go off on their own and carry out unauthorised operations , firmly believing that their plan is the only way to make progress . |
| 7 | What was striking was that the women artists were reshaping an inherited iconographic language and that it had become theirs to stake out as their own : the language of the body . |
| 8 | She also thinks that men tend to choose women who make up for their own shortcomings . |
| 9 | ‘ The essence of Eldorado as a series about people who live out of their own countries is very much its strength . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , they were blindfolded before they got out of their own car that morning , as you know . |
| 11 | When they both protested , seemingly in vain , at having lines cut , they came up with their own solutions they would accept the cuts , but make do with them badly . |
| 12 | They came down in their own time , after they 'd left off work , and they 'd have a small job done ; and then they 'd take it back ready for work the next morning . |
| 13 | For example , mothers report how they cut back on their own consumption of food in order to protect the living standards of children and partners . |
| 14 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 15 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 16 | Everybody gets on with their own lives and old links get used less and less till they 're forgotten , and before you know it , people are dead and gone and it 's too late . |
| 17 | When they get back to their own places they go to the middle and pick up a ‘ pearl ’ and go back to stand in their places . |
| 18 | It was with a certain amount of satisfaction that they settled down in their own kitchen and discussed their financial situation . |
| 19 | And that in Street , that w they had worked in Now I forget the name of the big firm but they 'd come out of one of the big er furniture warehouses and they started up on their own . |
| 20 | But after a while , when they got a variety of jobs to do , they , they took off on their own initiative and in fact some of them er without even advising the , the planning department er introduced one or two minor innovations which made life easier for them in regard to the work study man 's er schedule . |
| 21 | Then a snowballing effect takes over , with the larger lumps able to grow larger still because their own gravity would attract other particles as they sweep along in their own orbit . |
| 22 | When they went out on their own with girls , they tended to fix things for the same evening so as not to spend two nights separated where one would do . |
| 23 | When Frankie arrived on Tuesday afternoon with his printing order , he got hold of Mark and they went off on their own . |
| 24 | the tinkers , did they come up with their own scythes ? |
| 25 | The only thing that could warp the way that the band goes is the media , because they lie for the most part ; they come up with their own reasons and their own interpretations and people just believe what they read . ’ |
| 26 | Yes they come up with their own scythes oh yes they all had that er and oh could fairly sharpen too . |
| 27 | Those who are newly bereaved and naturally dread the loneliness of returning to an empty house should be visited frequently in their own homes ; and when you are able to persuade them to get out of their own four walls as much as possible for fresh air and exercise and to meet others and visit relatives , it can be a considerable help if you can bring them home and go in with them for a cup of tea or a chat , even if it is only just for a quarter of an hour . |
| 28 | We can provide a small group with a stimulus in the play area and let them get on with their own play , occasionally intervening ( as described below ) . |
| 29 | And as they were fretting about it being nicked , it turned up in their own backyard . |
| 30 | Look out for anyone standing around on their own , and if possible try to involve them in what you are doing . |