Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] their own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the widowed and single , by contrast , only two-thirds now lived on in their own homes , usually with their children or lodgers , or very rarely grandchildren , but 12 per cent on their own . |
| 2 | This book shows teachers how they can gain a better understanding of what goes on in their own classrooms , and how to use this understanding to guide their learners effectively . |
| 3 | Social workers in Orkney , it seems , even ignored the guidelines laid down by their own association . |
| 4 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 5 | It has been designed to be of value and interest to all grades of nurses who may wish to work through for their own interest and professional development . |
| 6 | Has fertility changed mostly because successive cohorts each grow up with their own characteristic attitude to childbearing ( ‘ cohort ’ effects ) , or do families respond in a more opportunistic way to the economic and social opportunities or problems of the moment ( ‘ period ’ effects ) ? |
| 7 | ‘ The clothes were fit to stand up on their own , they were that stiff with dust and grease . |
| 8 | At least education has given people confidence to stand up for their own rights ’ . |
| 9 | Every social worker has a responsibility to stand up for their own profession , to accept criticism humbly when it is due , and to explain why things are done in certain ways . |
| 10 | Meanwhile state-owned energy monopolies have come up with their own solution to generating more electricity without angering local environmentalists : moving their power stations to Eastern Europe . |
| 11 | It may happen when parents have indoctrinated their children , that is , laid down a set of beliefs without allowing the children freedom to think for themselves and to come up with their own reactions . |
| 12 | European manufacturers are afraid of getting left behind if the emerging handheld personal communicators generate a sudden rush of consumer excitement , and rather than wait for their labs to come up with their own local products , are weighing putting their names on one of the American products and manufacturing it locally . |
| 13 | DEC says it has no plans to licence its SVR4 work to other OSF/1 probables like Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , fully expecting them to come up with their own solutions in this area . |
| 14 | The suggestion was made that there should be community discussions with LEDU , that West Belfast people , in the absence of ideas from the IDB , are going to have to come up with their own ideas and develop them in conjunction with the universities , industrialists , and so on . |
| 15 | Actors are very emotional people who get caught up in their own make-believe — I would n't trust an actor at all ! ’ |
| 16 | They were catapulted back on their own ball , which not only put the pressure on Nicol but meant there could be no back-row moves to take the heat off the threequarters . |
| 17 | They ‘ memorise ’ the information she supplies , process it somehow , and then , compensating for crosswinds and the movement of the Sun , fly out on their own directly to the flower patch . |
| 18 | Press monopolies inhibit those with different views from launching out on their own . |
| 19 | I am often bemused by the men who criticize a woman 's shape when they are quite clearly looking down on their own unsightly ‘ pregnant'-looking stomachs . |
| 20 | The fire brigade declined to shed light on the matter , however , claiming that moggies always came down of their own accord . |
| 21 | They came down in their own time , after they 'd left off work , and they 'd have a small job done ; and then they 'd take it back ready for work the next morning . |
| 22 | The rabbits mostly came in of their own accord . |
| 23 | As we take apart the fight story , more and more men seem to be pushing in with their own excited commentaries . |
| 24 | After lunch , pensioners had the choice of venturing off on their own or visiting the Tales of Robin Hood Centre . |
| 25 | the female provarian no the female preference to male clothes , B , children , children 's habit of dressing up in their own parents ' clothes , C , a morbid fear of eggs ? |
| 26 | Libraries in general have an image of unparticularized worthiness and sobriety , and many young librarians have an admirable messianic zeal about them , a firm belief that what their library has is good for people and that membership lists and issue figures must be pushed up for their own sake . |
| 27 | These snazzy rollers heat up in their own box which holds three different sized , colour-coded rollers . |
| 28 | Training : Tax relief will be given to employers helping employees leaving their company to set up on their own . |
| 29 | The fourth phase of the development of headhunting may be identified as the splintering of individual consultants from existing firms , to set up on their own , such as Haley from Ward Howell and Egon Zehnder from Spencer Stuart , both in 1964 . |
| 30 | Ligachev argued that collective and state farms were still the backbone of the system and that most peasants did not want to leave them to set up on their own . |