Example sentences of "own [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Securitate had a department devoted to analysing the rumours in circulation and putting out its own to promote the regime 's purposes , which often could not be publicly stated . |
| 2 | Players can generate characters of their own using the WFRP rulebook , or they can use the pregenerated PCs at the back of this book . |
| 3 | Sometimes a mother might have some income or savings of her own to support the family . |
| 4 | William 's health was poor , while his improvidence and family quarrels weakened their estate , but on Alice 's own account the marriage was an affectionate one and she mourned him sincerely on his early death in 1668 . |
| 5 | Teachers who on their own make the effort to design appropriate materials are doing a great and necessary job in the promotion of community languages , adding to the growing storehouses of available approaches : working groups for the creation of teaching materials can make this activity more efficient and exciting , especially when headteachers can be convinced of the value of such activities in the framework of the normal timetable of departmental meetings , perhaps using ‘ slack time ’ which becomes available during examination periods . |
| 6 | 1 On your own read the poem and think about how it should be read by the group . |
| 7 | RESTORE on its own resets the data pointer to the first data item in the program . |
| 8 | This is preferable in cash-flow terms to Newco 's receiving group income from Target and having to pay ACT with no mainstream corporation tax of its own to absorb the ACT . |
| 9 | Girls with unsatisfactory parenting may crave a baby of their own to provide the affection lacking in their own upbringing ; but then themselves repeat the problems which they are trying to get away from ( Kiernan 1980b ) . |
| 10 | Her own sleep the light , fragmented pre-waking kind by this time , Maria realised what was happening at once and merely gave him a sleepily complacent smile , pleased to see the disturbance in his eyes as he regarded her suspiciously . |
| 11 | Robert 's loyalty to Margaret of Anjou and the Lancastrians led to attainder and forfeiture , which in turn compelled his mother to sell two manors of her own to meet the demands of creditors from whom the ransom money had been borrowed ( 88 , pp.29–32 , 126–7 ) . |
| 12 | People on their own enjoy the relaxed and friendly atmosphere of the hotel . |
| 13 | More than half those polled for Woman 's Own reckoned the ECU was anything from toothpaste to an exotic animal , while 90 per did not have a clue what ERM stood for . |
| 14 | The father had not applied for a Medjay to guard his house , giving as his reason that he had efficient men of his own to do the job . |
| 15 | Most of the increase in illegitimate births has been to women who are in some kind of informal union , not living on their own holding the baby . |
| 16 | They 're in a room of their own called the Simon Herbert and Lord X Bequest . |
| 17 | She also knew what was good for herself , so she kept for her own use the money that she was given for the children 's food . |
| 18 | His father , long dead , had been a dentist , and his son had taken for his own use the old man 's inordinately large store of self-designed surgical overalls . |
| 19 | Because the Moon has no atmosphere nor any significant magnetic field of its own to deflect the solar wind , it sweeps near the lunar surface . |
| 20 | On your own choose the five that you think are the most important . |
| 21 | Another aspect of this later circumcision of particular pertinence to the present discussion is that removal of the foreskin did not on its own render the rite effective . |
| 22 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 23 | Claws as mighty as its own batted the purestrain 's claws aside and ravaged its head so that the purestrain shrieked and hung incapacitated , blocking the gap . |
| 24 | Neither a simple arousal model nor lapse theory is adequate on its own to explain the complex effects of sleep loss . |
| 25 | Darron , trained as a photojournalist , has experimented over the last four years with commercially available time management systems before devising his own to suit the needs of the professional photographer . |
| 26 | Similarly , with the state lacking means of its own to regulate the conduct of business by its subjects overseas it was convenient to delegate this function to the great trading companies , which also assumed responsibility for general colonial administration . |
| 27 | The residents rejected Dr McDonald 's evidence and proposed calling in another independent researcher of their own to survey the factory , saying further investigation of the cancer risk posed by the factory was ‘ essential ’ . |
| 28 | Having , as she thought , settled their relationship satisfactorily , Ianthe was then conscious that he was looking at her in a way that did not seem quite what she thought of as brotherly , though she had never had any brothers of her own to make the comparison with . |
| 29 | One half of the now-defunct Kipper family , Norfolk lad Sid has invented a world of his own featuring the Women 's Bright Hour and the anglo-saxophone. who is appearing at Clacton this week |
| 30 | Planning Minister Paulo Haddad assumed the Economy and Finance portfolio in addition to his own following the resignation on Dec. 16 of Gustavo Krause after only two months in office [ for his appointment see p. 39139 , where his surname is wrongly given as Kraus ] . |