Example sentences of "[pos pn] [det] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What a dreadful day that was , and I was on my own because Uncle had to go away to attend to business matters .
2 ‘ If we prevent children dying in infancy they will just grow up to have children of their own and population will increase even faster . ’
3 First , had proportional representation been in force in 1983 , then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government on their own and coalition would have forced a moderation of policies .
4 of their own when quarterback Billy Boyd threw the ball to tight end John Addie .
5 The marking of Part-numbers only comes into its own when text containing a Part-number is passed by Guide to the dispatch system : the dispatch system can readily identify part numbers within the material passed to it , and there is no ambiguity between true part numbers and other strings of characters which might happen to look like part numbers .
6 Next you come to the dark ride where history takes on a life of its own and light , movement and sound come together to give you a realistic living picture of the town and its history .
7 a ) Tedious , importunate , promiscuous woman , lacking talent of her own or understanding of the genius of others , who tried to trap Gustave into marriage .
8 If she was going to qualify for Wembley , she was going to have to do it on her own and Midnight just had to be good enough .
9 She accuses Kingsley of mingling other travellers ' experiences with her own and writing of what she had never seen .
10 A man may pursue power simply as a means to employ others for his own purposes , but someone with the true passion for power will betray , by exceeding any rational design to control those useful or dangerous to his ends , that he does penetrate deep enough inside his subjects for the exhilaration of sensing their wills tense against his own and yield .
11 ‘ My collections , I am happy to say ’ he wrote , despite his own and prince 's fears , ‘ have all arrived in safety and I can now scarcely tell how so large a mass was got together in so short a time . ’
12 Commentators described Gorbachev 's remarks , particularly the juxtaposition of his announcement about possible secession with his comment about his own and perestroika 's fate , as a bold gamble to confront and try to contain separatist aspirations by endorsing a constitutional path to independence for republics , but at the same time warning of dire consequences should they follow it .
13 he started up on his own when father stopped .
14 The blow was almost as great for John , who had begun to enjoy a family background after years of being on his own or part of a split family .
15 In case of equality of votes , it was provided by the Act 1707 c8 that the presiding commissioner should have a casting vote , besides his own as commissioner , and that the commissioners from the different burghs should preside , in turn , in the order in which their burghs were called in the roll of the Scottish Parliament .
16 Pressure to live up to our own and other 's expectations .
17 Indeed even if you are faithful to the gospel that 's the time that you often go off on your own and experiment with this and that , different type of Church , different type of fellowship , something that 's perhaps not particularly Christ centred at all .
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