Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 2 | At present , everything that Hewlett-Packard is doing looks right : it has won itself a reputation of taking better care of its customers , an example being the way it is not forcing its MPE users to move to Unix , instead letting them migrate at their own pace . |
| 3 | Meechai told reporters that so-called " sex tourists " were no longer welcome in Thailand , and warned them to remain in their own countries " and exploit their own women and children " . |
| 4 | Almost always , by helping them stay in their own homes — not only by providing the necessary cash , but also by helping them to obtain all the entitlements to which they are due . |
| 5 | " And he wants me to go with him this time — as his driver . " |
| 6 | We hear them preaching in our own language about the marvels of God . |
| 7 | ‘ Would you expect me to remain after what that woman said of me ? ’ |
| 8 | The only small crumb of comfort is that , since May 1990 , tenants ( but not managers ) of national brewers ' pubs can buy guest cask ales free of the tie — but the nationals have been quick to dominate this new market niche by organising their own lists of ‘ guest beers ’ , many of them brewed by their own subsidiaries . |
| 9 | In England older men could get contract work for hedging and ditching , maintaining public spaces , or minor building repairs , which allowed them to work at their own pace . |
| 10 | ‘ I went home and got on with my work expecting them to come for me any day or night . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ This will be an opportunity for them to come into their own but without having to do anything that might upset their families . ’ |
| 12 | Ironically , because having shown me what he termed ‘ retroscendence ’ , The Fat Controller was content to let me stew in my own juice for a while . |
| 13 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 14 | Neither of them disclosed from whom this permission would have to be obtained . |
| 15 | It is often the negative power I perceive within myself that is so difficult to account for , or control . |
| 16 | I commend to you all this |
| 17 | And why should n't I do as I please with my own body ? |
| 18 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 19 | I flash upon my own family ; the way I have to think a moment before deciding who to include in my family , whether to include the step-parents or the siblings on my father 's side whom I would not know should I see them on the street , the hastiness of Mom and Larry on Sunday swirls between galleries and sushi , untapered by excess or sentimentality , busy with books and foreign films and the Sunday supplement of the New York Times , the wisdom of Ivy Leagues and schedules too dense to live by , to wake by , to sleep and breathe by . |
| 20 | Because I cheated on them both . ’ |
| 21 | I mean in my own village we have erm |
| 22 | Irina is right to say that when I lived on my own I was a lonely man . |
| 23 | In the end Frank and I met of our own volition . |
| 24 | One of the men he approached was Spurgeon who gave him this characteristic response : ‘ I sit on my own gate , and whistle my own tunes , and am quite content . ’ |
| 25 | How much can I explain in my own words ? |
| 26 | That 's how I got into it that 's for sure . |
| 27 | There 's no job in the industry I covet above my own , but I dearly wish I could spend more time designing and less on paperwork . |
| 28 | We were originally going to do weekly measurements , but I found on my own monitoring that you wo n't get much variation . |
| 29 | When I moved from my own place er in Walmgate to here I still underestimated how much furniture I 'd got . |
| 30 | I sleep on my own in a big double bed in a big room with a view of the sea . ’ |