Example sentences of "[pron] own [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own data brought to light many more , such as roughly , in the region of , hard on , well nigh , within an ace of , and say ( as in £10 , say ) . |
| 2 | My own data format convertor takes as input a set of digitized points and allows the user to specify the order in which the x , y coordinates are written to a disc file . |
| 3 | I then took my own aircraft to Kalafrana , landed and moored onto the slipway buoy . |
| 4 | I had to fight for the right to cut dresses as well as suits , to make evening dress as well as day wear and even now , when I 've proved myself in those areas , I have to fight members of my own staff who believe I should still stick to producing powerful women 's suits . |
| 5 | Of course , the servants ' hall at Darlington Hall , like any servants ' hall anywhere , was obliged to receive employees of varying degrees of intellect and perception , and I recall many a time having to bite my lip while some employee — and at times , I regret to say , members of my own staff — excitedly eulogized the likes of , say , Mr Jack Neighbours . |
| 6 | And reflecting this unease , the visiting valets and footmen appeared to regard one another with marked coldness and my own staff were rather glad to be too busy to spend much time with them . |
| 7 | Knowledge of German … little … ’ — I was thinking of the pleasure of being once again among my own people . |
| 8 | ‘ But I 'll be living with my own people . |
| 9 | There was a feeling that by doing so I was siding with the white community , not showing solidarity with my own people . |
| 10 | Before I had a chance to leave my own people and find out exactly how Anwar had gone insanely mad , Eva came over to me . |
| 11 | But he warned : ‘ There is no greater challenge in rugby for me than to play against England before my own people . ’ |
| 12 | Even my own people say I 'm thoroughly bad and I 've got the temper of Old Nick . " |
| 13 | How does any of this square with the teachings of my own people ? |
| 14 | For Marenches the most dramatic moment of the interview was when the Shah returned to him and said , " You do understand , my dear count , that I can never fire on my own people . " |
| 15 | Nor , to judge from their efforts , do I see that I have much more to expect from my own people . |
| 16 | And I run occasional training seminars for my own people . |
| 17 | I recently sang live at the Asian Pop Awards ceremony and I got a real buzz realising I was before my own people . |
| 18 | As you can see , it 's not easy , and sometimes it really makes one unhappy that I can not bring it out properly , since my primary audience hope ) is writing for my own people . |
| 19 | I must learn to sublimate my desire for my own perch by feeling happy for Aunt Louise sitting there . |
| 20 | In this category , the pupil is in control of the computer , inputting her/his own data manipulating it according to need . |
| 21 | Many organisations including salary clubs , salary survey producers and even the specialist relocation companies produce their own statistics on cost of living . |
| 22 | If sociologists produce their own statistics these too are the product of subjective opinions , in this case the opinions of sociologists . |
| 23 | It was said that the British cavalry , in their mad haste to get away , rode over their own infantry in the narrow streets of the town . |
| 24 | The cavalry were toppled back on their own infantry , most of whom were never engaged . |
| 25 | Estate villages provided houses for tradesmen , foresters , and other estate workers ; they would be paid wages rather than be allowed to take their own living from estate lands , no more grazing of their own sheep and cattle . |
| 26 | Moreover , because of yet another Treasury safeguard to make sure that EC money does not sneak past its scrutiny of public spending , local authorities are not allowed to make up their own 50% by getting contributions from businesses or charities . |
| 27 | Justification means to Paul God 's act of remitting the sins of guilty men , and accounting them righteous , freely , by His grace , through faith in Christ , on the ground , not of their own works , but of the representative law-keeping and redemptive blood-shedding of the Lord Jesus Christ on their behalf . |
| 28 | Confirmed junkies have their own works , but impulse users can get caught short and may use someone else 's . |
| 29 | Even in Britain Phelps Brown ( 1959 ) has shown that employers did not want to work in ‘ double harness ’ with their own men , that is to say , they would strongly resent their own workmen claiming to argue as unionists with them in their own works . |
| 30 | Some , in particular France and Germany , would like to give preferential treatment to living artists ( and possibly also to the artists ' heirs ) when selling their own works . |