Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [verb] [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They much prefer to have their own people . |
| 2 | I much prefer to find my own swims , not because I think I can find better swims than anyone else , but because I get a great deal of satisfaction from being able to study a piece of water , select a swim as a likely chub haunt , and then find that I am right . |
| 3 | We just want to create our own space . |
| 4 | We just want to create our own space . |
| 5 | ‘ Rubbish , I just like getting my own way . |
| 6 | It 's one I first came across in one of the handy little circular walk leaflets published by the National Parks and , though I generally like to devise my own routes , it 's a cracking walk and at ten miles of easy walking a good stroll for hot high summer day or days when low cloud and drizzle make high fell-walking a grey punishment . |
| 7 | Our society has tended to place women in a subservient relationship to men and some women find themselves drawn towards dominant or dependent partners and thus fail to assert their own needs as individuals . |
| 8 | Confidence in God allows us to be gentle with others as we no longer struggle to assert our own plans and willpower over them . |
| 9 | Thus , in the National Health Service it may well be the consultants that always seem to get their own way and the nurses rarely so . |
| 10 | I still like to do my own stunts as long as it 's practical and wo n't jeopardise the production . ’ |
| 11 | If you inject any drugs always try to get your own set of works and make sure that you use these every time you inject ( see the back of this booklet for information on syringe exchanges ) . |
| 12 | Some , when they have achieved it , still try to pursue their own aims , be it having a good time or a good job . |
| 13 | If you can afford one , a good plugger can benefit both the artist and the radio station by acting as a fixer for guest appearances , or providing news and creative ideas ; but like everything , some pluggers are better than others , and radio producers usually prefer to exercise their own musical judgement and not to pander to pluggers ' suggestions . |
| 14 | Firstly , because it goes against its grain : women always have to find their own way to where they 're going . |
| 15 | They also want to sell their own house as well probably |
| 16 | In a region dominated by Whitbread ( aka Fremlins ) and Allied ( aka Friary Meux ) , who both prefer to supply their own guest beers to tenants , getting into the pubs is no easy matter for a micro . |
| 17 | You will , however , probably need to draw your own soft furnishings , since our colonial cousins seem to favour settees the size of a stuntman 's soft landing pad . |
| 18 | They also need to assess their own needs and how much their opponent is prepared to fight . |
| 19 | On the other hand , they also need to explain their own good reasons for a decision , and refuse to give in to teenage threats or tears , when they know that decision is right . |
| 20 | But they also need to have their own anxieties answered ( for example , about side-effects of the drugs ) , and , in dealing with a severe and recurring disorder , they need periodic relief from their caring responsibility , advice on financial supplements available and a knowledge of good ways of coping with difficult behaviour on the part of their disturbed relative . |
| 21 | It has taken the black South African Rugby Association and the ‘ coloured ’ South African Rugby Federation under its wing , and they no doubt now want to flex their own muscles . |
| 22 | The volunteers now want to establish their own orphange in Moscow . |
| 23 | The volunteers now want to establish their own orphange in Moscow . |
| 24 | Finding conventional psychological studies too sparse and negative to be much help , they often try to construct their own accounts of lesbian identity and community . |
| 25 | Now if you take away er , another lump of money including carry forwards , you really do reduce your own ability to be able to pay to take advantage of the window of opportunity we now have to actually put European money into the county . |
| 26 | Some countries now plan to make their own fertilisers . |
| 27 | Having grasped the use of silence you now have to quieten your own brain , stop it muttering away to itself about all the things you need to do and may forget , stop it reacting and getting on its high horse when all it needs to do is to absorb information and store it for future reference . |
| 28 | He might be lord of all he surveyed , but it seemed he did n't in the least mind getting his own hands dirty , even if it was to assist his arch enemy . |
| 29 | Neither should quotations be used to express an opinion and thereby avoid expressing your own opinion or using your own words . |
| 30 | If authoritarian welfare states fulfilled these atavistic needs in the Neolithic , there is every reason to believe that they could still do so today ; and certainly there is much evidence to show that modern police states , far from merely fulfilling some of the same psychological functions , even mimic their Neolithic forerunners in the details of their ritual and symbolism , and certainly seem to evolve their own thorough-going political religions . |