Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can arrive wearing suitable clothing , on a day when you have not tired yourself out cleaning right through your own home . |
| 2 | Although he was pardoned by the King and sent into exile ( presumably for his own protection ) , there were riots against him after his release from the Tower , and when he sailed from England he was intercepted and murdered on 2 May . |
| 3 | Partly for Clare 's sake , but mostly for my own satisfaction , I decided to do my level best to break that man . |
| 4 | ‘ It just seems not a lot has been going right for me this season . |
| 5 | Juliet had told her a little about her own adoption , and her search for Elaine , but nothing about her talk to Celia and her great-aunt . |
| 6 | The Greeks of their time knew astonishingly little about their own past . |
| 7 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
| 8 | Lucker and I spoke very little about it this morning , and it has remained that way . |
| 9 | The document called the JNA " a cowardly army , fighting for no recognizable principle but largely , instinctively for its own status and survival " . |
| 10 | Just as we have found it convenient to think of genes as active agents , working purposefully for their own survival , perhaps it might be convenient to think of memes in the same way . |
| 11 | It 's difficult , though , because if you talk to adolescent boys in schools they 're violently opposed to women 's liberation , they hate the name women 's liberation , because they 're very defensive perhaps about their own masculinity at that age , and their own masculinity is defined very much in terms of being superior to girls and having mums who wait on them at home . |
| 12 | It 's difficult , though , because if you talk to adolescent boys in schools they are violently opposed to women 's liberation , or they hate the name women 's liberation , because they are very defensive perhaps about their own masculinity at that age , and their own masculinity is defined very much in terms of being superior to girls and having mums who wait on them at home , so it 's difficult to challenge that kind of supposition at that age . |
| 13 | The first is hard to explain because , although Kelly may be right in asserting that the clash was one of a kind seen every week , it was still bad enough for his own organisation to have upheld a ban on the man in the dock . |
| 14 | The American was wearing a lapel , badge , big enough for his own name and some other word . |
| 15 | Such contributions were highly valued because the members felt that they were learning much about their own school . |
| 16 | ‘ The inner cities will succeed in solving their problems only through their own strength and determination . ’ |
| 17 | You gon na do better for me this time Ga ? |
| 18 | On the other hand , it might be said that in criminal law a company can authorise transactions only for its own benefit . |
| 19 | On the other hand , where there is commitment , it is often only for its own sake , and conviction has been replaced by passionate intensity . |
| 20 | If the lad was a bit stern with her at times , it was only for her own good . ’ |
| 21 | Hamad was exceptionally enterprising : most government employees produced only for their own consumption , and their shops were sometimes very much spare-time activities . |
| 22 | Of course , you do not have to do things one of the standard ways if a system is only for your own use , and compatibility with someone else 's bar code system is not needed . |
| 23 | Rather rough , I 'm afraid , but I intended it only for my own use . |
| 24 | Here his success was questionable and he later imported only for his own firm . |
| 25 | This principle has been extended so that a person who books a holiday on behalf of others , e.g. a husband booking on behalf of himself his wife and children , may obtain damages not only for his own disappointment etc. but also for the disappointment sustained by his wife and children . |
| 26 | His home in Majorca had been built not only for his own retirement but as somewhere to provide temporary refuge for disadvantaged children . |
| 27 | We gave him whiskey and had n't to tie him up till the morning and that was only for his own good . ’ |
| 28 | However , Maskelyne had a high opinion of his abilities , lending him considerable sums and securing for him commissions for instruments , not only for his own observatory at Greenwich , but also for new instruments for Eger in Hungary , Mannheim , and Florence . |
| 29 | Several men tore the photo from his hands , ripped it up and stamped on it before police led the man away , apparently for his own protection . |
| 30 | Each has won once , and there should n't be much between them this time . |