Example sentences of "the [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 2 | So surely if the government er , have , ca n't have the money they cut their own throat ? |
| 3 | Even on the field he had his own personal trademark — flapping shirt sleeves and long , baggy shorts , which served both as a landmark for his colleagues and to help keep out the cold he felt so badly . |
| 4 | Just at the moment she had her own anxieties without being expected to worry about other people 's . |
| 5 | What was happening in Europe whilst this was happening cos that 's after the war they had their own development and they developed a different type of machine called a flat machine . |
| 6 | Washbrook , the four-square and fearless warrior with the faded , jaunty-peaked , blue cap of both Lancashire and England , was 75 on Wednesday , the day I dared my many happy returns , and still as robust , hale and healthy as ever . |
| 7 | yeah , and they make their own , he 's got all the machinery and all , all the people they make their own pumps |
| 8 | Coverage of all kinds can be both favourable and unfavourable — no matter whether politicians are in government or in opposition — and politicians themselves must bear the prime responsibility for ensuring that when they do get access to the media they present their own case well . |
| 9 | Once they were on the road they had their own coach , staying a day or half a day in each town . |
| 10 | During the ensuing eight centuries they recognised , at different times , the suzerainty of the Byzantine , Habsburg and Serbian emperors , the King of Hungary , the Doge of Venice and the Sultan of Turkey , but in the main they kept their own internal self-government . |
| 11 | You bring your children up , you do your best , but in the end they go their own way . ’ |
| 12 | Instead , all extrapolations should be , and indeed usually are , considered to be working hypotheses that guide the way we study our own brains . |
| 13 | It is perhaps too idealistic to suggest that the process of ageing should be dealt with during childhood , but it is certainly during these years that the basis of ageism becomes rooted in us and thereafter affects the way we approach our own old age . |
| 14 | They 'd probably be appalled by the way we view our own material , ’ says Honest John . |
| 15 | FOUR young pigs set sail for the Falklands last month and to make sure they did n't get hungry on the way they took their own feed with them . |
| 16 | Many step-parents feel guilty for not loving their step-children in the way they do their own . |
| 17 | I 'd called it that all my life so why should they try to force me to change the way I speak my own language ? |
| 18 | No doubt there were many contributory external or psychological factors in what was happening to the way he perceived his own personality . |
| 19 | The same secretive manner , the way he considered his own wishes to be paramount , the odd furtive way he stared at her when he thought she was not aware of it . |
| 20 | This is both for the purposes of common courtesy but also as it may have an important bearing on the way he discharges his own continuing professional responsibilities . |
| 21 | From the balcony he thanked his many friends for their support , and the Lord God for showing the jury his divine wisdom . |
| 22 | In 1626 he reported to the Commons on the outcome of the York House conference , at which George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , had declared his support for Arminianism ; and when he delivered one of the Commons charges against Buckingham in the Lords he added his own gloss that he was ‘ the principal patron of a semi-pelagian , semi-popish faction , dangerous to church and state , lately set on foot among us . ’ |
| 23 | After the painting they used their own products to furnish the house , surrounding the old ranges and fireplaces , and covering the floor of the glazed backyard with tartan ceramic tiles . |
| 24 | By the time they produce their own young they are solitaries with no older females around to teach them by example . |
| 25 | Most of the time we create our own reality quite automatically . |
| 26 | ( And all the time , at the back of my mind , the pedestals of famous philosophers , teachers , and experts were falling , until by the time I reached my own road they were just ordinary human beings . ) |
| 27 | and er , I mean what she saw of Kerry was , she dropped her here at quarter to nine , she picked her up between five and half past and the rest of her she saw around kid , the rest of the time she saw her own kid and er Julia was to have her until she went to school , so I mean how can there be any bond there , which there ca n't , but the mother said herself I had her because it was the done thing so I mean it 's , it 's today in n it do n't you think ? |
| 28 | In The Facts he examines his own vexed state with reference to the vexed question of whether it is better to make things up , and to distort them , and by contemplating his earlier re-invention of the time-honoured dualistic account of literature and human nature . |