Example sentences of "[verb] at their own " in BNC.
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| 1 | The morning after that first night they bathed together , laughing at their own bodies and the world . |
| 2 | Then , falling into each other 's arms , they tumbled about laughing at their own precocious English . |
| 3 | But , once again , Scotland had done their homework , though it has to be said that Monsieur Dume was a little different from the referee of Cardiff , presumably because referees also watch videos and wince at their own sins , not least of omission . |
| 4 | In 1875 Mann Crossman and Paulin opened its own purpose-built pale ale brewery in Burton-on-Trent , costing £77,000 , to beat brewers such as Bass and Allsopp at their own brew . |
| 5 | In England older men could get contract work for hedging and ditching , maintaining public spaces , or minor building repairs , which allowed them to work at their own pace . |
| 6 | She adopted an individually structured approach to teaching which allowed students to work at their own pace as and when they pleased . |
| 7 | While contracts ( see under contract teaching ) can be used in full-class , teacher-centred situations , their full potential is realised when they are employed to break the " lock " step and free students to work at their own rates and in their own ways . |
| 8 | There is no set length of time in which to achieve these either — each individual is allowed to work at their own pace , they are assessed when they are ready . |
| 9 | The heads , from top independent boys ' schools , want to reduce A-level failures by letting students study at their own pace . |
| 10 | Even when living at their own expense , princes had higher expectations . |
| 11 | There are a couple of changes made necessary because our fauna have to be tagged to a carrier and use a static line for opening the pack , unlike ‘ hume ’ paras who can cast themselves off and tug at their own ripcords . |
| 12 | Others seemed to derive pleasure from looking at their own bodies and caressing themselves , and from auto-erotic actions , and these people had led Freud to develop his concept of narcissism . |
| 13 | The best assignments allow learners to progress at their own pace and provide opportunities for tutors and learners to tailor provision to meet individual needs . |
| 14 | The multi-national corporations , the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are prolonging the process still today , and individuals have to , I believe , look at their own patterns of consumption and look at the way society in general works and work towards reducing levels of consumption in the rich countries so that we are more able to help the poor countries help themselves . |
| 15 | But we do n't believe that those sort of problems can be solved centrally , we believe that local communities can look at their own areas and see what they can do to lessen the problem . |
| 16 | Individual users can work at their own pace , repetition is possible and visual display in the form of diagrams is easy to achieve . |
| 17 | Individual students can work at their own paces and the exercises can be completed at convenient times within the student 's schedule of studies . |
| 18 | Students can work at their own pace and repetition is possible . |
| 19 | Programmed texts are excellent for individualised learning since not only can students work at their own pace but they receive immediate confirmation of the correctness of their response ( Finocchiaro 1968 ) . |
| 20 | Spokesman Paul Smith explained that students could work at their own pace and return their work to the centre for correction , annotation and comment . |
| 21 | The mood by this time may be more depressed , as they start to look at their own problems as opposed to those of their partner . |
| 22 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |
| 23 | Employees need to look at their own health and take regular exercise . |
| 24 | Social workers are highly critical of other professions ' seeming unaccountability , most notably doctors and police officers , but are notoriously unwilling to look at their own . |
| 25 | Mr Major will tell Tory rebels to look at their own constituencies to see the effect of Euro investment . |
| 26 | The bulk of the transfers have been made to the governments of the less developed regions to be used at their own discretion . |
| 27 | In failing to match their forebodings about vicious circles with effective solutions for breaking them , economists risk being played at their own game . |
| 28 | This they are doing at their own speed through a process of education and development , ensuring that Oman is run by Omanis , and not by foreign powers with distant interests . |
| 29 | So why do n't we just let things develop at their own pace ? ’ |
| 30 | Nevertheless , some teachers claimed that the appraisal had produced little in the way of changes and some had difficulty in remembering quite what the adviser had proposed at their own feedback session . |