Example sentences of "[noun] and [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For roughly £2 million ( little more than the cost of one Falkland islander ) the British government can preserve both Henderson , Pitcairn and its own reputation for colonial fair play . |
| 2 | Instead of a great historical narrative common to ill , everything now had its own chronology and its own history . |
| 3 | I piled the kids and what few possessions we had into the pram and , balancing the baby bath on the hood , walked the few miles back to my Pop 's house . |
| 4 | Birmingham 's opponents tonight , Bari , can expect a frenzied greeting and their former midfield ace , David Platt , pinpointed the Midland club 's way to victory . |
| 5 | Thus the Community Relations and Neighbourhood Units in Easton each have their own offices and their own sergeants ( but not inspector ) , are free from the obligation of responding to logged calls from central control , and can decide for themselves their priorities and programmes . |
| 6 | She longed to give in to the desire in his eyes and her own body 's urging . |
| 7 | Do you not think that almost regardless of the reply and whatever that reply contained , with what we now know with the benefit of hindsight about Liechtenstein , which was actually known by I M R O there 's not for the benefit of hindsight that was n't known at that time , should n't I M R O have refused immediately to license any organisation that was controlled out of Liechtenstein in those circumstances ? |
| 8 | But Kylie herself was now in complete control of her own mind and her own career . |
| 9 | There was a fluid pain at the back of my neck and my own voice was strange to me . |
| 10 | Throughout the summer , with many visiting painters , many of whom are women trying to adjust the balance between home ties and their own creativity , Jacqueline is often asked to explain how the various threads of her life are woven together . |
| 11 | The night raids with a few sporadic bangs and our own guns , and twice a silver Zeppelin picked out by a search light , seemed fun — because we all came downstairs and stayed up late and were n't expected to be bright at school next morning . |
| 12 | Only this time there was no Victor , only the emptiness of his own fear and his own death . |
| 13 | Soon after , her husband 's family in Pakistan and her own family there were torn apart by a feud . |
| 14 | In his view , the presence of WEA classes in evening institutes were valuable indicators of the District 's existence , attractive to potential students and demonstrated the contribution made by the WEA to liberal adult education in partnership with LEAs and their own emphasis on vocational courses . |
| 15 | Roger , who said he was abused from the age of four and saw his mother Virginia regularly beaten , told of his two years in prison for selling cocaine and his former addiction to the drug . |
| 16 | Drawing upon this European research and his own observations in the United States , the American diplomat George Perkins Marsh ( 1801–82 ) wrote his Man and Nature of 1864 to warn of the dangers . |
| 17 | It 's like walking in a dream , all the shops and cars and everything all sort of fairy tale , like they ai n't really there . |
| 18 | She knew from village gossip and her own observation that Harry Pascoe treated his second son cruelly . |
| 19 | Toby imagined Penny as a girl of infinitely greater experience and sophistication than himself , though , in looking back on her four years at Bedford College and her half year of unemployment thereafter , Penny could only be struck by the slim amount of worldly knowledge gained , the fleeting , unsatisfactory nature of the relationships formed . |
| 20 | His brilliant work has already brought out the very best in Brigitte Bardot , Raquel Welch , Britt Ekland and his former wife Faye Dunaway , among countless Hollywood stars . |
| 21 | The last month almost spent on a series of farewell visits to the branches and his many business friends in Melbourne and Sydney . |
| 22 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 23 | My heart kept jumping as I read it , remembering Dana and our many days and nights together . |
| 24 | These findings suggest that the formation of a specific complex between an IE protein and its own gene promoter may be a common mechanism used by alphaherpesvirinae to autoregulate transcription of an essential IE gene . |
| 25 | For two centuries he has stood between the Elves of Ulthuan and their many foes . |
| 26 | The cold wind and his own anger turned parts of his face as scarlet as the hunting ‘ pink ’ he wore . |
| 27 | Office work creates its own demands and its own routine , which area officers and senior staff can exploit as a means of assessing field staff 's competence and industry . |
| 28 | With a controlled distributor system , the spirits range and its own TV airtime , PTGI — and Guinness in Indonesia — is moving on still further from its origins back in the 1970s . |
| 29 | For those who sought symbols in inanimate objects its message was both simple and expedient , that man , by his own intelligence and his own efforts , could understand and master his world , could make his transitory life more agreeable , more comfortable , more free of pain . |
| 30 | Now , as Central America struggles from the wreckage of war , Washington and its former foes are engaged in an extraordinary detente . |