Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was even harder to bear than his own self-criticism . |
| 2 | This is n't a case of writers bleating because their own books wo n't be available ; we all spent hours in libraries learning our trade , the only way to learn to write is to how it 's done by other people be it well or badly |
| 3 | My view was that people wanted what they regarded as their own pension and my aim was to ensure an expansion in provision . |
| 4 | There was about a grand in the old account — my dad 's money came by standing order — but I would n't use it , and what I regarded as my own finances were judging from the tone of the bank 's increasingly frequent letters somewhere in the deep infrared and in serious danger of vanishing from the electromagnetic spectrum altogether . |
| 5 | I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . |
| 6 | A chest X-ray or more detailed tests can be done if there any indications . |
| 7 | It would be very difficult would n't it because the British then would be sort of admitting that you know , what would they do if their own troops were sent in , what would they do ? |
| 8 | When he is asked what he will do after his own group splits , he usually resorts to humour . |
| 9 | It remains to be seen whether his own observa-tion of six years ago ( ‘ I was a rotten singer ’ ) still applies . |
| 10 | I was adopted when my own mother died a few days after I was born . |
| 11 | In July 1922 , the Company enquired whether either of the other two companies had any covered top cars to spare , which they could borrow , to see if their own cars could be fitted with top covers . |
| 12 | I mean if its any thing like a golf magazine , every week , every month |
| 13 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |
| 14 | As possible alternatives to the " title plus sub-title " pattern , consider whether your own title could be a phrase or sentence . |
| 15 | Other people 's ghosts oblige with tappings and — via the medium — messages regarding insurance policies left in hat boxes on top of wardrobes , but those Rainbow might claim as her own spirit guides are — as usual — out for the evening , probably off somewhere playing a gig or eating dinner . |
| 16 | After all , we have been reaping rewards from the vegetable garden for months : the soil ca n't go on and on providing if its own storehouse is not replenished . |
| 17 | I know also that some Conservatives that feel that perhaps what I 've laid before you this afternoon has some credence . |
| 18 | What is more disturbing for small firms is the propensity of large companies to increase the length of credit notes when their own liquidity is tight , thereby transferring part of their financial burden onto suppliers . |
| 19 | He had always resented Marcia Williams because of the influence she exercised over Harold Wilson and that resentment grew as his own power diminished . |
| 20 | The critical decision for the banks will come if their own adviser sticks to his view of the costs . |
| 21 | If a group claiming to speak on behalf of elderly people had failed to deliver because its own interests were at variance with those of its wider public , the absence of any promotional or representative body during the following decade rendered the pensioners ' position still more hazardous . |
| 22 | He also recorded his suspicions that those paupers who had gone to prison were now wearing clothes belonging to the workhouse , and enquired whether their own clothes should be sent to them . |
| 23 | Oxford is a safe place , but sometimes people are chased because our own youngsters are jealous about the perceived wealth that visitors have . |
| 24 | Morgan waited while his own case was processed , biting his lips . |
| 25 | He 'd have been hoping for lots more land . |
| 26 | Now , seeing as my own computer literacy extends only as far as Super Mario Bros , I 'm left feeling a little bewildered by it all . |
| 27 | These include the natural desire for autonomy by the director who sees his institution as serving national and , indeed , international needs and the equally natural desire of the local council to retain control of what it has always historically regarded as its own institution whose main function should be to meet the needs of the region . |
| 28 | Then I realized that almost everyone in what I had once regarded as my own day was probably in a similar predicament , that the shattering effects of the war had probably distributed most of 2020 back and forward throughout history ! |
| 29 | Instead of being treated as our own ancestors , the Neanderthals of Europe and the more primitive ‘ Java man ’ were dismissed as distinct forms of pseudo-humanity , driven into marginal locations by the expansion of true humans with a more advanced level of intelligence . |
| 30 | Then we can turn it on and see if it all works . |