Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [pron] [det] country " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dear ladies these children are in their own country ! |
| 2 | Even in the long-ago undercover work on the weekly magazine , she had always worked with the comforting feeling of being in her own country , with the big battalions immediately behind her . |
| 3 | ‘ You were in your own country , among your own kind when you felt that compulsion and made your demands on me . |
| 4 | ‘ There is no single acceptable location , as they see it , unless it is in their own country . |
| 5 | If the weather pattern was as uncertain as it was in her own country , she should take the opportunity of going there while the sky remained unclouded and the clear air of the city simmered with a body-relaxing warmth . |
| 6 | And that was in my own country , the land of my birth , and the birth of my father and my mother , and their fathers and their mothers . |
| 7 | In those early years the horrors of travel merely reminded him what a long , long way Anna was from her own country , and he used to say that they owed it to her to make up for it . |