Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Continued to support elderly owner occupiers to remain in their own homes . |
| 2 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
| 3 | This particular accolade results from opinions given by our own buyers and coming as it does after four years of recession speaks volumes for our commitment to quality and customer care . |
| 4 | But if the then Prime Minister had been governing by decree based on policies formed by her own beliefs , credit might have been easy . |
| 5 | The fly is large , and took eight minutes to erect on my own but just five minutes with a friend . |
| 6 | I give space for others , and allow others ' plans to come before my own . |
| 7 | She was horribly aware she was being manipulated , knew his cynical tactics for what they were , yet she was powerless to resist , and when his mouth traced a line of feather-like kisses across her cheek her lips parted of their own accord , begging for their share of the richness . |
| 8 | He was still smiling , his eyes gleaming like her own . |
| 9 | ‘ We are all men of the world ’ — he excluded the Archdeacon from eye contact and addressed himself exclusively to the Dean — ‘ so of course we know , do we not , that problems of that sort for young clergy bring with them all kinds of undesirable connections . |
| 10 | Or was it ? she wondered , her memory reaching out to the feel of Silas 's arms holding her against him , and to his lips resting upon her own . |
| 11 | As part of the background it has to be understood that large numbers of Koreans lived outside their own country and emigration was encouraged by the Japanese , at any rate to Manchuria . |
| 12 | Happening by chance to be employed in one of the most notoriously protest-prone university schools in the Western world , I have noticed an extraordinary anomaly in student protest behaviour which I invite my readers to compare with their own experience , which I think they will find quite closely comparable to my own . |
| 13 | Her eyes dropped of their own accord to his hard mouth . |
| 14 | Now she was safely east-north-east in her green canopy , her pale lips laughing at them all . |
| 15 | Polar communities of plants and animals testify to their own hardiness and adaptability , but also to positive advantages of polar living that ecologists from warmer climates tend to forget . |
| 16 | " Artisan " could embrace many independent craftsmen trading in their own product from their own shops , but it usually covered as well those skilled manufacturers dependent on work put out by merchant capitalists and wage-earning journeymen on employers ' premises . |
| 17 | His body was touching hers , the hard length of his thighs pressing against her own . |
| 18 | Even with those creatures we assume to be our closest animal relatives , the chimpanzees and the great apes , we are forced into interpreting their signs and signals according to our own mental patterns . |
| 19 | But other scientists , together with indigenous leaders , stress the need to ensure that the local forest peoples benefit from their own knowledge . |
| 20 | Rostov was not sure that these final words related to his own case . |
| 21 | The lesson was offered in the particular terms of the four years , from sixteen to twenty-one , which a youth would expect to spend as an apprentice working towards officer status ; it was to be interpreted by each of the readers according to his own aim in life . |
| 22 | Sitting naked in a chair with a book in his hands , flicking through the pages but staring ahead , his legs caked in his own excrement . |
| 23 | Once a white owl swept silently overhead , so low that Hazel saw its dark eyes looking into his own . |
| 24 | Much will depend on how the parties react to his own proposals , foreshadowed in an important speech in Liverpool last month and to be discussed with Dick Spring tomorrow . |
| 25 | Branches should also be familiar with Helpline 's Traders List for their own geographical area and continue to monitor the costs and standard of services provided . |
| 26 | Essentially this means that the peak organizations act as their own game-keepers … . |
| 27 | Mr Patten announced his democracy blueprint last October , radically revising Hong Kong 's unique functional constituency system , under which different professions and trades vote for their own councillors , and considerably enlarging the electoral base . |
| 28 | The danger with this was that it caused believers to look to their own faith rather than to Christ alone for the assurance of their salvation . |
| 29 | This can be solved by a provision enabling either one of the parties to apply on its own . |
| 30 | Ford is testing a sophisticated electronic security system on cars used by its own executives before deciding whether to standardise it on all high performance models . |