Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] their own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social workers in Orkney , it seems , even ignored the guidelines laid down by their own association . |
| 2 | Jean : She 's told some kids to go back to their own country . |
| 3 | Graham Bowstead , Bob Hodgson and Ray Cargill , all Englishmen , had been working for William Lee in London but were on the look out for opportunities to branch out on their own . |
| 4 | His only possibility is to tap the latent anger , which he has to keep suppressed for the most part , and the social depression that would enable him and his peers to speak out from their own consciousness in order that a mature and civilized level of relationship can be attained between them and others . |
| 5 | These snazzy rollers heat up in their own box which holds three different sized , colour-coded rollers . |
| 6 | It can bring together polar opposites in a way that would never happen in London or LA , where musicians hang out with their own kind . |
| 7 | And the birds turned up of their own volition ? |
| 8 | Most cases clear up on their own , without special treatment . |
| 9 | A notorious critic of Hollywood , he justified taking the job by declaring he would break the stranglehold of the agents , who tied the studios up with pre-wrapped packages made up of their own clients : stars , writers and directors . |
| 10 | Such contact can often help individuals to move out of their own , often closed world of despair . |
| 11 | The worshippers headed off in their own directions , and the ordered chequerboard shattered . |
| 12 | Now those same partners gave their blessing to the idea of the two solicitors moving out of their own offices , and setting up a temporary Law Centre where everyone involved could get together and fight for the return of the children ; they would fight for justice , and ultimately a judicial inquiry . |
| 13 | Hence , it is argued , the technology was developed to meet the requirements of large-scale factory production rather than of small-scale craft producers operating out of their own cottages . |
| 14 | Allow the viewers to look around on their own . |
| 15 | Teaching effectively in higher education calls for the extraordinary ability on the part of the teacher to bring students to the point where they can distinguish sense from nonsense for themselves , where they can say and do things for themselves and give reasons for so doing which are full of insight , and where they have the intellectual resources to take off under their own steam . |
| 16 | If the attraction was dominated by sexuality then when this flame diminishes , as it so often does , the partners fall back into their own boundaries and wonder where the magic has gone . |
| 17 | Grown-up sons go off on their own , grown-up daughters stay put or set up splinter groups nearby . |
| 18 | Advice to subject teachers to carry out within their own teaching programme . |
| 19 | European manufacturers are afraid of getting left behind if the emerging handheld personal communicators generate a sudden rush of consumer excitement , and rather than wait for their labs to come up with their own local products , are weighing putting their names on one of the American products and manufacturing it locally . |
| 20 | Jed had made his selection ; three toys stood out on their own in the middle of the floor , these being the ones that he reckoned he could do without . |
| 21 | None of the people on stage knew what was happening , the girls continued to sing their plaintive song and the other men danced on with their own pieces of chiffon , hoping that Ken would go away and disappear for ever . |
| 22 | But many of the 14-year-old pupils had to sit tests drawn up by their own teachers who are boycotting the controversial national tests . |
| 23 | If a self-access library is to be effective , you need to spend time viewing every recording , putting yourself in the position of trainees sitting down on their own to make what they can of it . |
| 24 | A lady in one of the flats said , there are still children playing about on their own . |
| 25 | Major areas of application of consumer multimedia include music , games , home education and self-improvement , popular reference , ‘ how to ’ applications such as DIY , car maintenance etc , and child-minding software designed to keep children quiet and entertained while adults get on with their own lives for short but blissful periods of time . |
| 26 | The little ones go out on their own |
| 27 | This is vital , for ultimately we want students to branch out on their own , to develop their own viewpoints , and not simply to imitate the views of the teacher bound to a particular research methodology or paradigm . |
| 28 | Once a consensus had been reached , it had no legal standing , but Citrine expected the chairmen to go back to their own Boards and secure acceptance of the common policy . |
| 29 | Identical twins growing up with their own image constantly near them , sometimes very in tune with what the other is thinking and feeling , may have a problem in their search for a marriage partner on several counts . |