Example sentences of "[pos pn] [det] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the people of really did n't feel they 'd been consulted , I , I carried out a little survey of my own and got a very good response . |
| 2 | I raised a cup of my own and took a belt . |
| 3 | Although it was my health I was considering , and no one else 's , it was still difficult to step out on my own and leap the bounds of convention . |
| 4 | Should I go out on my own and start a business , or would the insecurity be unbearable ? |
| 5 | I had to go on my own and ring the doorbell with an easel and canvas under my arm and I did n't know what to wear . |
| 6 | As a respondent in my study commented about economising on the heating : ‘ I turn it off when I 'm in on my own and put a blanket on myself . |
| 7 | Greek negative theology was able to make the original revelation particularly their own and offered a constant corrective to their hellenistic love of rationalism and intellectual debate . |
| 8 | Then they wrote some papers of their own and forced the Mexicans to sign them . |
| 9 | After lunch , pensioners had the choice of venturing off on their own or visiting the Tales of Robin Hood Centre . |
| 10 | The souk was not located , as markets usually were , in a square of its own but occupied the space created by a crossroads . |
| 11 | It took all the courage he had to thrust his head and shoulders into the mouth of that entrance , but he closed his eyes and twisted and turned and after a time tumbled out into a great stone chamber , lit with a soft light of its own that dimmed the glitter of his shining key . |
| 12 | However , MacArthur doubted whether the Soviet Union would attack Japan — ‘ Even if the Soviet Government had aggressive intentions towards her it would be incapable of carrying them out , unless it could secure mastery of the air and either had a Far Eastern fleet of its own or possessed the means of neutralising any action by our own fleet . ’ |
| 13 | According to unofficial indications the Janata Dal ( S ) had 61 votes of its own and had the support of Congress ( I ) and 27 members of parties allied to Congress ( I ) . |
| 14 | Under the Third Republic , Fumaroli observes , Braque , Picasso , Giacometti and Matisse received no State subsidy ; nor did Proust or Gide ; popular boulevard theatre was left on its own and produced the likes of Pitoeff , Guitry and Jouvet . |
| 15 | Unable to stand it any longer , Sheila went up to him and before he had time to react seized both envelopes , feverishly tearing open her own and handing the other to Mona , who appeared almost unable to take it . |
| 16 | My sister , who is 80 , lives on her own and takes no tablets . |
| 17 | She knew she did not want to be an employee or to set up on her own and accepted a position as Recorder on the South-East Circuit while looking at the appointments pages in the newspapers . |
| 18 | Therese sang back , matching every sob with a shrill one of her own and giving an extra heartrending tremolo here and there . |
| 19 | Perhaps she was incapable of standing on her own and needed the encouragement of supportive males . |
| 20 | He thought : I 'll get her on her own and have a private talk . |
| 21 | Carole would take the first opportunity to get her on her own and have a word with her in private . |
| 22 | It was very well presented and that whilst Billy Connolly freely admitted he was not in fact a culture vulture , it was his enthusiasm that in a sense having his own that make the programme apparently a complete and utter joy and in a sense that 's what sponsorship should do , it should do for art , music , ballet and opera what Cousteau and Bellamy have done for the environment and Attenborough |
| 23 | In the church of the new literary criticism , he has also prayed and mocked , publishing critical books of his own but satirising the gurus of metafictional inquiry in his novels : Nice Work 's laconic demolition of Lacan has survived to reach the BBC . |
| 24 | In addition to his father 's considerable herds , he had built up a sizable flock of his own and dreaded the thought of a harsh winter . |
| 25 | He listened to grievances , gave some measured advice of his own and enabled a savage dispute to be settled by both sides with dignity . |
| 26 | ‘ It was a kind of choice between saving his own and saving the Cossacks . |
| 27 | Arthur wandered the streets and ate pasta on his own and learned the intricate history of Christian heresy in an Italian-language library . |
| 28 | From this position Morris was soon able both to develop a practice of his own and to secure the fruits of public office : as early as 1727 he was referred to in print as ‘ the noted architect Mr. Morris ’ , and in 1731–2 he made a visit to Italy . |
| 29 | A player who weaves together the music of his Brazilian roots with influences as diverse as those of Harry ‘ Sweets ’ Edison and Miles Davis , he has now produced three albums of his own and established a distinctive voice in the straight-ahead idiom . |
| 30 | Does any hon. Member seriously think that , after Britain has signed up for a single currency , we could go to war on our own and expect the 11 countries who share the same currency to stand idly by and see the value of their currency wrecked , for ever depreciating , just because Britain was in one of its periodic warmongering fits ? |