Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pos pn] [det] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 For a discipline that generally deals simplistically with social relations , and rarely studies its own or its subjects ' histories , such an approach is especially important .
2 Terry , whose gentleness of heart so melted my own that I helped him sell his newspapers outside factories , on picket lines and outside East End tube stations at seven-thirty in the morning , was encouraging .
3 He had already had his own and he went away to play the harpsichord for twenty minutes .
4 It was not a through-road for Saxon or medieval traffic ; it did not come into existence as a boundary ; it was not originally a drove-road , for cattle-drovers took over existing tracks and lanes and did not create their own except in special circumstances .
5 I should say just pay your own and that 's enough
6 The Profiles section gives some fleshed-out NPCs , but you can easily develop your own or import them from other WFRP products if you wish .
7 DENTDALE IS A shy and sequestered valley , not advertising its many and varied charms nor seeking publicity .
8 The Assembly , which was a kind of democracy , though a rather small , special and elite one , was liable to the bad democratic habit of rapidly overturning its own or its advisers ' decisions : so for instance Thucydides ( vi.89ff. ) implies that a single speech by Alcibiades was enough to make the Assembly reverse a decision not to help Syracuse in 414 .
9 Well she would rather have her own than be dressed up like looking like rolled doll she said .
10 We could n't sport the name of Dark or Phillips or Brown or Davies or any other Worcester paddler who went out to give their all but we thought we would have a go .
11 tend to be like , you do n't watch your own when you 've got other people 's to watch
12 I do n't like my own because it 's too round .
13 He advises setting aside 15 minutes a day to study and consciously interpret her own and other people 's gestures and he promises that we will be amazed to find how much our ‘ intuitions ’ about people can improve .
14 Rory tried to sneak a surreptitious glance at Adam 's wristwatch — she was n't wearing her own since it would have looked totally out of place with the slinky black number she was wearing — only to have her eyes riveted on his hands .
15 In this chapter she discusses her preconceptions and first impressions of further education , then describes her own and her students ' experience of their course and their attempts to participate with other students in the life of the college .
16 The only new Mission for the deaf that seems to have opened for the first time in the 1890s was that at Oxford , although the deaf people of Bradford almost lost their own when a fire was discovered in the coal cellar under the offices by one of the deaf members who ran to summon the fire brigade from its nearby station .
17 The straight side sections are easier : you can make up mock pilasters with straight sections of bought mouldings , or again make your own if you have a router .
18 My mother had lived my life until half a year ago when I had so briefly lived my own and in the process destroyed it .
19 Students came to be regarded as trouble-making drones , supported by the tax-payers ' money , indulging themselves at others ' expense , and frivolously wasting their own and other people 's time .
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