Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to see a distant future in which she and Tom were together in their own home , a house where music was made , and with perhaps their own children . |
| 2 | The chilling pictures of tiny James Bulger being led away to a brutal death have touched millions , not just because of the tragedy that befell a little boy but because they have made people realise how much their own lives have become defiled by fear of crime . |
| 3 | There were three brothers , Jacob , Phillip and John , who were very much their own men and who would stick to a viewpoint through thick and thin . |
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| 5 | If only her own emotions were so easily controlled ! |
| 6 | She was voicing not only her own views , but those of authority at Benedict 's . |
| 7 | ‘ It is only her own customs she respects . ’ |
| 8 | In the 1960s , W. D. Hamilton suggested that an individual should sacrifice itself to help not only its own children , but also its close relatives that share many genes . |
| 9 | The rest , even Ranulf of Chester , still saw only their own palatines , and built at them and fought off encroachments on them feverishly , looking no farther . |
| 10 | There is , however , more than just a need ; for there is fundamental necessity for vision at all levels of human affairs ; all groups of people , even small teams as well as nations , must have a vision , or everything subsides into confusion and what is worse , lets power fall into the hands of practical , and unseeing men who press only their own interests , leading to strife and despair . |
| 11 | More than a century later the emperor Julian ‘ the Apostate ’ was complaining that the Christians look after ‘ not only their own beggars but ours as well ’ . |
| 12 | It occurred to Helen — listening to Louise , contemplating the chest — that in all the years she and Edward had lived at Greystones they had fully occupied only their own bedrooms ; elsewhere , they perched . |
| 13 | What influenced Hincmar most ( though his description idealised it a little ) was the regime of Charles the Bald , especially its latter years . |
| 14 | One school of thought has it that managers of large private corporations are more or less their own masters ( Berle and Means , 1932 ) . |
| 15 | By disrupting the delicate nexus of ties , formal and informal , by which we are linked with our neighbours , crime atomizes society and makes of its members mere individual calculators estimating their own advantage , especially their own chances for survival amidst their fellows . |
| 16 | A brand new series of buyers ' guides — we help you set up a specialist tank or system each month , show our choice of equipment , and let you know what else is suitable on the market and how much it all costs . |
| 17 | The other has about him a ring of nostalgic failure ; in his time everything was good , but it ended in failure both personally ( for Fróthi was killed ) and ideologically ( for Fróda 's son returned to the bad old ways of revenge and hatred , scorning peace-initiatives and even apparently his own desires ) . |
| 18 | There 's no actor in the world who has done all his own stunts . |
| 19 | This refers to disorder on a widespread scale , and the officer should take into account not merely his own resources , but those that can be made available to him through the use of the mutual aid provisions of the Police Act 1964 . |
| 20 | Now it came to the point , however , he sensed a reluctance within himself to confront any member of this self-important establishment on his own ground , far less his own terms . |
| 21 | His samples were small , unscientifically selected and , in all probability , representative of only his own friends and acquaintances . |
| 22 | The grandfather was a favourite with the neighbouring children too , ‘ a great one for stories ’ , and in the summer would sit them on a seat outside his door , ‘ not only his own grandchildren but other children about , listening to the tales he used to tell , about old Dumfries ’ : of the murderess Mary Timmony , for example , the last woman publicly hanged in Dumfries . |
| 23 | and Tucker J. ) that where the Inland Revenue gave notice to a professional man under section 20 of the Taxes Management Act 1970 requiring the delivery of documents , the professional man was obliged to comply , even though the documents might disclose not only his own affairs but also those of his clients ; particular attention was directed to a quotation from the judgment of Diplock L.J . |
| 24 | And only his own backbenchers can do that . |
| 25 | He urged them to stay , in the forlorn hope of restoring peace ; but soon only his own followers ' lodges remained . |
| 26 | But perhaps what these discussions about Henderson 's research illustrate most graphically is the considerable conceptual and methodological difficulty of conducting research on social support . |
| 27 | Yeah so that all compiled up so what some bits do n't work ? |
| 28 | Rattling through the broken no man 's land between the town and the dam , the dark windows of the train showed only our own reflections . |
| 29 | Use only our own girls and warn them to be on their best behaviour . |
| 30 | This is often the decisive part of the race , since if you launch well and get clear of the group it is only your own mistakes that will stop you from qualifying . |