Example sentences of "[pron] [det] [noun] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I served on the Committee which dealt with what is now the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , in the hope that I could draw on my own experience as chairman of the Cardiff juvenile bench , and as someone who had worked with young offenders . |
| 2 | ‘ Bernard gave me four new tyres for my own car as payment but kept saying , ‘ I 'm going to open a big factory one day and have you as works ' manager ’ . ’ |
| 3 | The victims are unlikely to believe that they can do much from their own resources if action is dependent on billions of dollars , and the developed nations can hardly man every environmental barricade from Ethiopia to the Amazonian rainforest . |
| 4 | The monks ' election of their own prior as bishop had recently been quashed by Archbishop Langton , who almost certainly approved , though he may not have engineered , the election of Alexander . |
| 5 | They see their own needs as greed and subsequently feel guilty about caring for themselves . |
| 6 | Depressed people may endanger their own safety because tiredness , lethargy and loss of motivation and self-confidence result in a lack of attention to maintaining a safe environment . |
| 7 | In the context of a takeover , a listed offeror which is offering its own securities as consideration will be required to prepare and publish listing particulars where |
| 8 | If a listed bidder is proposing to issue its own securities as consideration under the scheme then listing particulars may be required . |
| 9 | Optimists had hoped the answer was that opposition would ebb of its own accord as evidence of growth began . |
| 10 | The court did not simply substitute its own view because Congress had assigned the task primarily to the agency which , because of its greater experience , placed it in a better position to resolve the matter than the Court . |
| 11 | Moreover the NCC has its own secretariat whilst subject working parties had , perforce , the DES providing this crucial function . |
| 12 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 13 | Holyfield starts training next month , but right now is watching the Olympics and doing nothing more testing than shadow boxing and jogging two miles a day around the Crystal Harmony , the Coca-Cola company 's flagship in Barcelona harbour . |
| 14 | He gave it me to spend , presumably so he could spend time making love to you , sister , dear , ’ Dana said when Claudia asked her that question after Roman had gone to his room . |
| 15 | He had taken with him more badness than goodness , leaving not a vacuum , but a breathing space . |
| 16 | Such honesty brought him more trouble than hypocrisy would have done — with Louise Colet , for instance . |
| 17 | Fuming , Paige tossed her head , realising that to point out his own behaviour might cause her more embarrassment than satisfaction . |
| 18 | But i i it 's yo you ca n't do it this term because maths is never ready it always has to be done erm next term . |
| 19 | Mikhail Gorbachev , the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovietskogo Soyuza — CPSU ) , was elected to the new presidency on March 15 , having already served as executive President of the Soviet Union since May 1989 in his former capacity as Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet [ see p. 37297 ] . |
| 20 | He succeeded his former master as surveyor to the estates of All Souls College , Oxford , and continued in the college 's employment until 1605 . |
| 21 | ‘ You and I have got some serious talking to do — I 'm not about to let the director have things all his own way where make-up 's concerned . |
| 22 | Wordsworth was forced into using his own past as material for poetry , and the first attempts of a writer in a new vein are frequently the best . |
| 23 | A heated debate followed in which Churchill , drawing on his own experience as Home Secretary nearly forty years earlier , led for the Opposition . |
| 24 | With his own voice as back-up , the 36-year-old actor might not seem quite so strained in still milking certain ‘ boyish ’ mannerisms . ’ |
| 25 | He strings his own bow while hunting , takes the arrows , sets and fires them . |
| 26 | It is one of many indications of the limits , not only of Anselm 's notion of his own responsibility as archbishop , but of the concerns of the Church as a whole . |
| 27 | It could only mean that his own future as Duke was doubly assured . |
| 28 | They were something that had to be removed , like flammable rubbish , so that the president could be ‘ fireproofed ’ from the fury of his own people when news of the secret contacts with Iran hit the newspapers . |
| 29 | His evidence was also remarkable for his insistence that Kesselring had exaggerated his own importance as Officer Commanding Troops in Italy , and was therefore not in fact responsible for the atrocities of which he stood accused . |
| 30 | He jogged easily back to his apartment , to snatch some breakfast , and was just passing his own car when Control made contact with him again through the bulky R/T he carried . |