Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [pos pn] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ bad ’ characters in any story grab attention more easily than the ‘ good ’ because in them are realised our own temptations and foul qualities which we suppress in our daily lives .
2 ‘ I have full responsibility for fund-raising and publicity and because I took on a new post it means I am introducing my own ideas in consultation with the directors and chairman .
3 ‘ I see myself as a guardian , although I 'm making my own marks with a herb garden and wild flower garden . ’
4 I was fighting my own terrors in public , but others wanted to do it more gently .
5 These dimensions have been tested ergonomically , and are designed to fit in with standard appliances , so they provide a useful guide if you are building your own units instead of buying ready-made .
6 You will certainly need to experiment with exposure periods if you are coating your own boards with a UV sensitive aerosol lacquer .
7 I mean i i the new innovation is just coming round today I see starting the same thing all over again , you 're weighing your own products at the .
8 Recording their own conversa the trouble is though , if you 're recording your own conversations you 're a bit stilted
9 er you were using your own contacts
10 ‘ While you were following your own pursuits this morning , I set a few more wheels in motion .
11 It did n't help that , intellectually , I knew that she was reliving her own feelings about the way in which a second child — me — had wrecked her marriage .
12 Scarlet blinked again : she was projecting her own feelings on to her child .
13 Reduced to helpless laughter when the young man a few yards away fell headlong into a gulley , forgetting to look where she was putting her own feet , she trod on something hard — and , to her utter astonishment , found a leprechaun .
14 We are going our own ways , but hopefully one day we will get together .
15 We 're portra , we 're doing our own personalities for
16 ‘ I think we 're more relaxed when we play covers because we 're not so worried about them sounding good as when we 're doing our own songs , ’ says Gedge .
17 By giving up their lives to protect their nest mates , they are promoting their own genes through their relatives .
18 With this approach , the language experience approach , the learners ’ interest is held because they are using their own words and telling their own story .
19 But now they are defying their own interests too .
20 Demonstrate , in talking about fiction and poetry , that they are developing their own views and can support them by reference to some details in the text , eg when talking about characters and actions in fiction .
21 Demonstrate in talking and writing about literature that they are developing their own views and can support them when appropriate by reference to the text , eg in making judgements of characters and their actions , or when building upon those characters and events in their own writing .
22 Bank issuers have responded to the non-bank challenge with a blaze of publicity about how they are cutting their own fees , which are typically $20–40 a year , or waiving them for new card-holders in the first year .
23 Or disappear forever wiped out by some killer bug and all that will be left of them is a film in which they 're playing their own ancestors ?
24 They 're protecting their own jobs .
25 If children play on or next to the track , this video warns , they 're putting their own lives at risk .
26 Even now , they were following their own destinies , being drawn towards some Last Battle in which they would stand against things Hawk called the Dark Spirits , whose front man on Earth she recognized as Elder Seth .
27 It 's staging its own marches to counter the official demonstration and it 's changing some street names back to what they were before the revolution .
28 It is to steal his own clothes , and by the time he comes to Sonya to confess , the Napoleonic idea is already crumbling into wanting to dare or something even vaguer .
29 He 's operating his own hours .
30 He was acting in plays , he was writing his own plays , he was reading books , he was meeting other writers , making friends …
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