Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pos pn] own [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been within inches of the goal because when Swift collected the deflection , he was running along his own goal-line for dear life . |
| 2 | For the cuddly 34-year-old has found her Mr Right after setting up her own agency for larger ladies , Plump Partners . |
| 3 | She 'd never even pushed her finger up her own arse for sexual purposes . |
| 4 | The children responded by making up their own problems for each other . |
| 5 | Or can I take out my own policy for half the mortgaged sum , or £50,000 ? |
| 6 | De Klerk 's action in freeing Mandela at this time , after years of international pressure for his release ( particularly around the time of his 70th birthday in 1988 ) was seen as an acknowledgement of the urgent need for the government to open negotiations with legitimate black leaders , in response to the ANC 's Harare Declaration of August 1989 when it set out its own proposals for political change in South Africa [ see p. 36837 ; see p. 37176 for recent communications between Mandela and de Klerk on this issue ] . |
| 7 | But a long-running dispute by benefit staff forced the council to put back its own deadline for thousands of outstanding benefit claims . |