Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adj] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 He threw out no sounding parties too weak to guarantee their own safety , and he lost none of them .
2 British television has mounted a highly successful comedy series called Yes Minister , the main theme of which has been an elected cabinet minister being constantly deflected from his preferred politics by senior permanent officials primarily concerned to protect their own positions .
3 The unrelentingness of each succeeding movement , and the thoroughgoing cruelty of former classmates and neighbours only concerned to save their own skins , shapes a nightmare world .
4 They are all political groupings well able to fight their own battles , they all have welfare forms to fill out and placards to make .
5 I know we 've argued all these years and I 've been irritable , if not downright rude , but … but … ’ and Creggan was astonished to see that this fiercest of eagles was suddenly close to a profound grief and for a few moments quite unable to say anything more .
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