Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] [pos pn] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Community care planning in this new form presents better opportunities for better services and for more people in need to be looked after in their own homes . |
| 2 | Mr Deputy Speaker that 's exactly what the authorities are asked to make sure about and of course they must have sensible plans so that there are always beds and facilities for those who need them , but in a way it 's a success of care in the community that that more elderly people are being looked after in their own homes and so we 've arrested the very rapid growth in permanent residential places which was occurring before the policy was introduced er , as we now see , despite some gloomy forewarning , local authorities have in general managed well in the first year of their responsibilities , they 've examined thousands of cases and many people have been helped to make decisions about their own futures . |
| 3 | Thirdly , the myth that ethnic minority elders inevitably prefer to be and always are looked after by their own is being exposed ( Grant , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | There are patients here looked after by their own G Ps especially on the medical side and of course they know their G Ps . |
| 5 | In one instance , a local commercial waste-collection contractor overestimated the tonnage he was disposing of at his own landfill site by 30% . |
| 6 | It was the first place he had come to in his own right , with something to give . |
| 7 | Want to come on on my own . |
| 8 | Many of their young men are going forward to train as priests , and at some time in the near future the people will be ministered to by their own men . |
| 9 | That it is not so here is perhaps because the charioteer was not designed to be looked at on its own but as part of a larger whole . |
| 10 | ‘ What I 'm saying , Vitali — what I 've been driving at in my own bluff way — is that I would very much appreciate , that 's to say , well … ’ |
| 11 | Most people who are keen on hollies soon find out that both male and female trees can be extremely attractive because of their foliage , which is often variegated and much sought after for its own sake , so buying a male is n't just a utilitarian exercise . |
| 12 | It was early still , but , while she had quite enjoyed his company and having someone else to converse with in her own language , an early night seemed quite a good idea . |
| 13 | ’ For four days we 've had music you could almost dance to in our own front rooms — if you like that sort of music . ’ |
| 14 | Many mothers of sons never see them to talk to on their own from the day they marry , because their daughters-in-law always expect to be present on every conceivable occasion , and this is something that can build up a very understandable resentment . |
| 15 | Obviously , there are still many other problems to be overcome , including the possible effect of targeting genes and proteins which normal cells depend on for their own growth control . |
| 16 | His idea is that you can vote if if the voter in your constit if a person you vote for in your own constituency loses , you can then switch your vote to anyone else in the country and erm you can have a list of maybe ten or twenty people and erm you will so you 'll hand in your ballot paper with all these names on , signed ballot paper because it has to be public you can hand in your signed ballot paper with all these names on and if your own candidate loses , then er your vote goes to your second person and if that person loses it goes to the third and so on . |
| 17 | Erm but what we will have to do is set up our local procedures as regards agents queries and things like that in both countries , both with and also whatever you decide in Denmark of how we run the procedure but that can be something later but what we 'll need to do is no doubt before we actually do the distribution to the agents and the erm the information out to them th why we 're going into on our own as opposed to being served by the other carriers . |
| 18 | Furthermore , attacks such as Crews 's are , as he acknowledges , not taken seriously and replied to in their own terms , but treated as symptoms of repressed disturbance . |
| 19 | Its international stature alone guarantees the attraction of custom , particularly from traders involved in export/import finance deals which small domestically-orientated banks might find difficult to cope with on their own . |
| 20 | Being discriminated against or harassed on any grounds — whether it 's racist , sexist or even ageist — is always hard to cope with on your own . |
| 21 | In this country a hospital accepts and cares for any person who can not be cared for in their own home , but to step into their admission halls is not always the loving experience needed . |
| 22 | The majority are cared for by their own families and friends , often at great emotional cost to themselves . |
| 23 | The vast majority are cared for by their own families and friends , often at enormous emotional cost . |
| 24 | The boys and girls are cared for by their own Class Teacher , with specialist teaching in Physical Education and Music . |
| 25 | But where they address discourses of ‘ race ’ , sexuality , age , and class among subjects , they seem to find them difficult to deal with on their own terms . |
| 26 | So it 's nothing to do with by their own choice so I understand . |
| 27 | She stopped , unable to believe the sound that croaked from between her own lips . |
| 28 | Oh no you Well again er as I say I I 'm speaking in in my own time , er and in my time you were left school before you started in the yard at all , aye . |
| 29 | In other words , we 've been funding from within our own budget new developments that 'll come on stream next year and it 's a very complicated budget and it contains some quite erm controversial erm subjects , which no doubt we 'll go through in a minute , but overall erm , given the total financial situation , I 'm a relieved man today . |
| 30 | But when they were made respectable , vouched for by his own father , when they were associated with his own parents , and with his own existence … it was quite different . |