Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pendant lights , usually hanging on their own flex from a ceiling rose , are the most common form of general tungsten lighting — ideally , there should n't be just one light in the centre of a room , but two or more around the room , including over any table . |
| 2 | West German attention remained centred on the affairs of Central Europe — nor had the Germans either completely liberated themselves from or lived down their own past . |
| 3 | In the role of clients , these local leaders bring in their own supporters behind their patron , in return receiving political advancement for themselves and small benefits for the union ( Rothstein 1979 ) . |
| 4 | The Russians do n't like outsiders bringing in their own machinery . ’ |
| 5 | we have people who know a lot about the subject , and others who are bringing in their own items for us to assess |
| 6 | Well I think it is impossible for anyone to totally avoid bringing in their own values into work that they 're doing to some extent , but I think it is possible to deliberately set out to involve the values of other people in the way that you carry out the work . |
| 7 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 8 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 9 | Staff need to be made aware of the indicators that trigger off their own prejudices — snotty noses , nose- and ear-rings , coloured hair , leather jackets , elaborate and expensive school uniforms , gum-chewing — all those things that set off an expectation of a certain kind of behaviour , regardless of the individual young person 's personality . |
| 10 | There was the underlying , common culture , a Protestant bond strengthened by those churches which built up their own special relationship : in 1874 , for example , it was the American Ambassador who laid the foundation-stone for the ‘ Lincoln Tower ’ at Newman Hall 's new Christ Church , Westminster Bridge Road . |
| 11 | The workbook contains a number of novel features to Streets Ahead which actively encourage learner independence , including a personal phrase file , in which students built up their own lists of useful phrases , vocabulary , and social exchanges , review pages for self-assessment , games and puzzles , extra reading material , and special listening tasks with an accompanying Student 's Cassette . |
| 12 | It belonged almost in its entirety to Kenneth Horne , around whom the show was built , but there was enough left over for the supporting players , Betty Marsden , Hugh Paddick , Bill Pertwee and Ken , all of whom built up their own individual following . |
| 13 | They 've picked up their own vibes . |
| 14 | Travel is a very personal matter and our staff build up their own clientele . ’ |
| 15 | He offered the Soviet republics — which are in the process of taking over the nuclear facilities previously administered by the central authorities — German help to organize their nuclear-energy programmes and build up their own inspectorates . |
| 16 | Gouzenko 's defection alerted the West to these dangers and caused certain countries , particularly Canada , to tighten up their own security and counter-intelligence procedures . |
| 17 | I would thought that from my quite long experience now with the relief agencies that the British operational agencies , that is those agencies which consistently respond to overseas disasters and send out their own people , technically and professionally qualified people , and that would be really Save the Children Fund and Oxfam , are absolutely excellent . |
| 18 | The military bomb boys can churn out their own fissile materials without difficulty . |
| 19 | Teenage boys , like young bulls in a herd , often jockey for position and want to try out their own strength . |
| 20 | Now , for the 10 per cent of house-buyers who rely on this report , or even the 15 per cent who rely on a mini-survey , that 's fine as far as it goes — and I would not wish to discourage anyone from having a professional survey , or ever advise against one — however , all the surveyors I know would prefer knowledgeable clients who had carried out their own surveys first and could present their results to them for investigation and comment . |
| 21 | So far the US , like the European Community , has preferred to leave the Central American leaders to work out their own solutions . |
| 22 | So far the US , like the European Community , has preferred to leave the Central American leaders to work out their own solutions . |
| 23 | This was something entirely new in football , a marked contrast to the prevailing easy-going system where players were left to work out their own tactics . |
| 24 | to work out their own way of death . |
| 25 | The emphasis was on self-reliance , with the children free to work out their own solutions without a close-knit family environment . |
| 26 | A more rigorous church system , which in any case allowed them a chance to work out their own salvation , may not have seemed too high a price . |
| 27 | In justifying this decision Truman depicted events in the Near East as a struggle between freedom and totalitarianism , and stated that ‘ we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way ’ . |
| 28 | In general Mrs Bottomley has set clear boundaries and timetables for the decisions and told the relevant authorities to work out their own salvation within them . |
| 29 | In marriage , every couple has to work out their own rules . |
| 30 | They are not actually all that difficult , as we 've been finding in the teaching that we 've been doing where indeed we have students who take a ten week course , sort of once a week , and by about week six they 're already beginning to do that , they 're beginning to work out their own problems erm puzzles and games and little language understanding programs and that 's commonplace , actually . |