Example sentences of "the [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 2 | So surely if the government er , have , ca n't have the money they cut their own throat ? |
| 3 | Even on the field he had his own personal trademark — flapping shirt sleeves and long , baggy shorts , which served both as a landmark for his colleagues and to help keep out the cold he felt so badly . |
| 4 | Sneaking across the kitchen she made herself some bread and margarine . |
| 5 | ‘ We are not for having any man turn sceptic , and disbelieve his senses ; on the contrary we give them all the stress and assurance imaginable ; nor are there any principles more opposite to scepticism , than those we have laid down . ’ |
| 6 | While she changed , she could hear the others laughing and singing and when she emerged from the changing-room she found them all in the foyer waiting for her to emerge . |
| 7 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 8 | Just at the moment she had her own anxieties without being expected to worry about other people 's . |
| 9 | What was happening in Europe whilst this was happening cos that 's after the war they had their own development and they developed a different type of machine called a flat machine . |
| 10 | Now , on the back I bought him some extra fog lights for back and I bought him them fog lights that goes int window . |
| 11 | I treasure the photographs I took of Jack , and following its refurbishment the instrument sounds as good as the day he fashioned it all those years ago — a credit to the man and fitting epitaph to his expertise . |
| 12 | Washbrook , the four-square and fearless warrior with the faded , jaunty-peaked , blue cap of both Lancashire and England , was 75 on Wednesday , the day I dared my many happy returns , and still as robust , hale and healthy as ever . |
| 13 | yeah , and they make their own , he 's got all the machinery and all , all the people they make their own pumps |
| 14 | In my last article in the magazine I told you all about my trip to Saudi Arabia , but I did n't tell you why I went or what I hope to do next . |
| 15 | Coverage of all kinds can be both favourable and unfavourable — no matter whether politicians are in government or in opposition — and politicians themselves must bear the prime responsibility for ensuring that when they do get access to the media they present their own case well . |
| 16 | Once they were on the road they had their own coach , staying a day or half a day in each town . |
| 17 | During the ensuing eight centuries they recognised , at different times , the suzerainty of the Byzantine , Habsburg and Serbian emperors , the King of Hungary , the Doge of Venice and the Sultan of Turkey , but in the main they kept their own internal self-government . |
| 18 | Now the reason I ask you these questions , of course , is not you personally , but the Tourist Board is responsible for a grading scheme which is available for us , the consumers , to help us pick the right hotel for our needs . |
| 19 | You bring your children up , you do your best , but in the end they go their own way . ’ |
| 20 | In the end he does it all and more . |
| 21 | Pay one fifty a week , at the end of the year we put it all in a jar write your name down . |
| 22 | Instead , all extrapolations should be , and indeed usually are , considered to be working hypotheses that guide the way we study our own brains . |
| 23 | It is perhaps too idealistic to suggest that the process of ageing should be dealt with during childhood , but it is certainly during these years that the basis of ageism becomes rooted in us and thereafter affects the way we approach our own old age . |
| 24 | They 'd probably be appalled by the way we view our own material , ’ says Honest John . |
| 25 | FOUR young pigs set sail for the Falklands last month and to make sure they did n't get hungry on the way they took their own feed with them . |
| 26 | Many step-parents feel guilty for not loving their step-children in the way they do their own . |
| 27 | I 'd called it that all my life so why should they try to force me to change the way I speak my own language ? |
| 28 | The first one , I mean , er , this is not casting the stone , but this is the way I see 'em all . |
| 29 | No doubt there were many contributory external or psychological factors in what was happening to the way he perceived his own personality . |
| 30 | The same secretive manner , the way he considered his own wishes to be paramount , the odd furtive way he stared at her when he thought she was not aware of it . |