Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to their own " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had already been arranged that Eric and Daphne Lovell would drive Rose to her destination before going on to their own and would pick her up later for the return trip . |
| 2 | An officially estimated 75 per cent of British children speak their mother tongue , which they hear at home , abysmally , and will , in the course of time , pass on to their own children , since , after all , languages are first learnt with the ears and not grammar books . |
| 3 | When they get back to their own places they go to the middle and pick up a ‘ pearl ’ and go back to stand in their places . |
| 4 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'll return back to their own world once they 've had their fun . |
| 6 | Few of them got back to their own country . |
| 7 | Once a consensus had been reached , it had no legal standing , but Citrine expected the chairmen to go back to their own Boards and secure acceptance of the common policy . |
| 8 | Jean : She 's told some kids to go back to their own country . |
| 9 | Old Señor Freitas coughed , before he said , ‘ Sometimes señoritas have families who want them to go back to their own country . ’ |
| 10 | Is their going to be lots of escapes and that sort of thing by people who do n't want to go back to their own country |
| 11 | a self-evaluation followed by visits by advisers to see if staff are performing up to their own perception and to look into the objectives of the school . |
| 12 | After staying here , most girls , apart from the very young ones , go off to their own flats . |
| 13 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 14 | Those who promise great things do not always match up to their own or anyone else 's expectations ! |
| 15 | Feeling vaguely foolish , the pair went back to their own room . |
| 16 | ‘ Before a new resident is admitted to this Home , I go out to their own home to make an assessment . |
| 17 | It is an agreement to which our European partners were happy to sign up , and they have gone back to their own countries to celebrate . |
| 18 | erm So that there are a large number of tropical foresters now who 've been here and gone back to their own country , and one of the things which I point out to them these days is the need for public relations in their own countries , and getting information across to governments and being able to talk to economists and finance people in their own countries . |
| 19 | He also insinuated that pro-independence republics were implicated , commenting that Soviet monetary collapse would make it easier for " ultra-radicals in a number of republics to solve the problem of changing over to their own currencies " . |
| 20 | He had no track record himself in combat and the men he was to lead in battle were a pretty tough crowd , all of them individualists and likely to be highly critical of any officer who did not come up to their own standards . |
| 21 | Aware that absolute holists can not live up to their own tenets , they offer a different distinction between the two approaches so that , rather than being seen as strict alternatives , they are held to be complementary . |
| 22 | They required the most sophisticated communications technology so that they could transmit their stories and pictures back to their own countries . |
| 23 | At this point the first contingent of Bachad children was sent off to their own training centre , Gwrych Castle , in Wales . |