Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 You , you get a tin er and whoever 's sort of looking after the tin , er somebody kicks it , one 'll kick the tin and then you all go and hide , and he has to find you before you can come back and kick the tin .
2 It has already been noted that most models have a view of politicians as people who follow overly narrow self-interested behaviour to the detriment of interests of the electorate and presumably their own long-run reputations .
3 The specialist placement agencies have pioneered this work and certainly my own study , and those of research colleagues looking at other agencies , have shown that the model that they have pioneered is seen by the families and the children as appropriate .
4 They are part of an armoury of concepts , conventions and practices that give meaning to and protect the writer 's own social formation and specifically their own place within it .
5 Freed of the responsibility of nursing her husband Lady Chatterley spends more time with the gamekeeper and eventually they both give in to their desire .
6 I could have been married many times , as everyone knows , but I was always so involved with my father 's business and then my own , life was always so full , that I let the opportunities slip by .
7 Her gimmick was that she wore a different pair of glasses every day and somehow they all seemed to suit her .
8 Out of these emerged a plan for holding a national conference to discuss the recent recommendations of the Royal Commission and also his own proposal to form a National Deaf Association .
9 He has his own towel and shampoo , but she uses the family bath and sometimes her own hairdryer .
10 By grouping together , individuals overcome limitations imposed by both the physical environment and also their own biological limitations .
11 Yeah well there again like I said before I tend to rub the cord and then they all
12 He is near enough for his bulk to cut out the reflection of the sky and so his own reflection does not reproduce his colours but allows us to see into the water .
13 Walking is such a simple thing and yet we all take it very much for granted .
14 Once again , there is considerable diversity to be found in the current pattern of who has responsibility for training and exactly what that responsibility entails in practice .
15 Managers will need help to understand people 's needs during a period of transition and also their own reactions to change .
16 " On the top of the hill near King Darzin 's palace there was a garden and here his many children and his chief followers ' children used to be taken to play by their mothers and nursemaids .
17 It is very hard for me to bear because my employer and even my own family think I am just being work-shy .
18 He had been watching the expression that crossed her face and now his own face closed to a sheet of ice .
19 Despite all of this , he was unaware of UPH 's interest and therefore his own in the Ballsbridge site , until four months after Telecom closed the sale .
20 I was thinking of Robins ' house and then my own before I left home ; his mother making a sailor suit , my mother forever — in retrospect , anyway — making patchwork quilts .
21 ‘ We 'll give him a race around Christmas time and then one more to put him right in the Spring . ’
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