Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cats sleep a lot , so let them choose their own spots — instead of a cosy fireside , your two might prefer an old box on top of the filing cabinet . |
| 2 | This was a new Joan : another of these modern women with their new language and new dreams who could follow where she had led , if she were generous enough to let them fight their own battles . |
| 3 | You 'd better let me fight my own battle . ’ |
| 4 | Old Van Leer left nothing to chance : not only did he plan his own funeral , he even made Wim rehearse a funeral oration , which he did with his usual brio . |
| 5 | Not only do they believe their own PR , they generally eat and wear it too . |
| 6 | Not only do we have our own supplies of coal , oil and gas , we also have some of the best wind and wave conditions in the world . |
| 7 | Erm , we would think of others , would n't we , not only do we have our own National Anthem , but we have other songs that that arouses from time to time . |
| 8 | Not only does it meet his own policy expectations but it does so in language supplied by Mr Greenspan in congressional testimony which would allow Mr Greenspan to run rings around his Administration critics . |
| 9 | Although she dislikes her father 's will — not to let her choose her own husband — she has no intention of rebelling against it . |
| 10 | ‘ Now let me have your own passports and anything that might give a clue to your true identities . ’ |
| 11 | But unlike Orwell , my journey did n't make me repudiate my own class — it did the opposite , it recuperated my class belonging . |
| 12 | They had not even let her keep her own loneliness but had intruded on it . |
| 13 | You can choose from shoals of them lazily circling in tanks near your table ; some restaurants even let you catch your own meal from a pond out the back of the premises ( ’ NO FISHING LICENSE REQUIRED ! ! ! ! ’ ) . |
| 14 | How well do you know your own Faces ? |
| 15 | He wo n't even let you have your own name ! ’ |
| 16 | BANNED : George Lazenby says insurers would n't let him do his own Bond stunts |
| 17 | I could n't let her have her own way every time , however , otherwise she 'd end up training me ! |
| 18 | Only then did she impart her own news : that she and Geoffrey were to adopt a baby girl in a month 's time . |
| 19 | So that 's the first consideration when I 'm looking at somebody 's investments , how do they view their own investment strategy ? |
| 20 | How does he think his own strident criticism of Group 4 will help his case ? |
| 21 | ‘ Why did you fake your own death ? ’ |