Example sentences of "they be [noun] [prep] their own " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government fail to appreciate — although they are prisoners of their own rhetoric and ideology — several important points which others readily grasp and would clearly like to do something about . |
| 2 | And they while they reckon condoms , by far the most popular form of contraception for teenagers , are sensible they are victims of their own self-consciousness because they are too afraid to buy them . |
| 3 | Pupils and teachers at Cheney say they 're victims of their own rigourous adherence to guidelines for working out the figures . |
| 4 | No there 's they were , they were called but they were agents for their own ships . |
| 5 | They were slaves of their own chemistry , following a blind biological urge . |
| 6 | One famous example of this was when he asked students to pretend that they were boarders in their own homes , and to behave accordingly . |
| 7 | Until 1958 , females , even though they were peeresses in their own right , were not admitted . |
| 8 | All the girls I used were n't bimbo model types — they were people in their own right . |