Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Before a new resident is admitted to this Home , I go out to their own home to make an assessment .
2 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 .
3 She also thinks that men tend to choose women who make up for their own shortcomings .
4 ‘ The essence of Eldorado as a series about people who live out of their own countries is very much its strength .
5 Or hitching rides to nowhere with the additional old stiffs who cruise by in their cunning old cars .
6 None of the group is especially common as fossils , but they make up for their general rarity by their interest .
7 ‘ When you consider the inexperience of the side they put out in their first Test against France , their 20–15 victory was remarkable .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Unless they get back to their winning ways Rovers could even miss the play-offs .
11 They ride … they race … they watch for fun … and they roll up in their thousands … the South Midlands Area Hunt Club got the new season underway at Heythrop near Chipping Norton with a bumper card of 158 horses and 11 races …
12 SPORTING blue berets and Uzi submachineguns as they hurtle along in their spanking new vehicles , 1,000 Italian soldiers have started to patrol the 300-kilometre ( 190-mile ) road that runs from the Mozambican port of Beira westward to landlocked Zimbabwe .
13 You know when they go round in their little cars .
14 The following week they go off to their respective schools , to meet the teachers and the group of children they will be working with .
15 Sandy , what 's going to happen to these kids when they go back to their dull , boring school laboratories and classes after having seen the vision of your course and what physics can possibly be in the future ?
16 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 .
17 Life just has not provided them with a partner and so they wander on through their thirties and forties , still living alone and gradually accepting the situation .
18 Sixth-form colleges will be funded on the basis that they carry on with their present practice .
19 Some participants on EA have requested that they carry on after their 12 months course finishes , only to be told they ca n't as that might be using this to avoid looking for full time employment .
20 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 . ’
21 Yes they come up with their own scythes oh yes they all had that er and oh could fairly sharpen too .
22 they come in with their big
23 If they come out from their defensive withdrawal and hesitantly accept the affection they are likely to need to test it out , to see whether it can withstand some heavy strain or whether , like past ties , it can be broken .
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