Example sentences of "own [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For absences of seven calendar days or less ( short spells ) , civil servants were able to complete their own certificate explaining their absence . |
| 2 | So confident now , so sure of him , she let her own heart speak . |
| 3 | The fact was that his own heart had grown irresistibly fond of the love of his life , Senora Isabel-Maria Estanguet de Moss , whose husband had just been posted to the Argentinian Embassy in Brussels . |
| 4 | I could hear my own heart thumping and beating . |
| 5 | Her own heart thudding dangerously , the atmosphere between them charged , she rose . |
| 6 | She was aware of the cicadas buzzing in the heat of the day , of the sweet smell of pine trees and jasmine , her own heart thudding dully against her ribcage . |
| 7 | Had my own heart broken by one inquisitive straight lady , way back in my desperate youth . |
| 8 | Tallis went outside quickly , alert for the boy , her own heart racing in response to the awful wailing from the woods . |
| 9 | Why was her own heart starting to beat so hard again , frantically , as if it was trying to tell her something she could not or would not hear ? |
| 10 | Suddenly Lindsey felt her own heart give a slight jolt . |
| 11 | For a moment he stroked her fair hair back away from her face , his eyes roaming over her , and Jenna could hear her own heart beating like a hammer . |
| 12 | When deciding where the company should be going for the future it is extremely important that one should not lose sight of the need for synergy since adventuring outside one 's own field contains high added risk which the shareholders will very quickly appreciate . |
| 13 | But Coffin no longer disliked this ; he might let his own hair lengthen . |
| 14 | I was letting my own hair grow too . |
| 15 | We had intended to ask participants in our workshop to consider what the major constructive influences on their own teaching had been , whether training at college , advice from colleagues , intuitions from pupils or their own previous experience as learners . |
| 16 | If they were educational programmes they probably had their own teaching built in too . |
| 17 | What about Elvis 's own guitar playing ? |
| 18 | Their impact and success are also partly determined by the subject area sex education is included under , how it is presented , whether there is any discussion , and whether outside speakers are used , as well as girls ' and boys ' own willingness to participate . |
| 19 | It 's the least I can do for one who has come for a bush walk and then finds the project nipped in the bud by her own willingness to help . ’ |
| 20 | Salvation for the slaveholders lay only in their own willingness to accept abolition and undertake amelioration of slavery on their estates . |
| 21 | The women 's resistance movement was inhibited by its own willingness to accept an undervalued estimate of women 's work , whatever the actual work process . |
| 22 | I said we bring them , we 're earning the money cos she do n't earn her own money does she |
| 23 | Raffles abolished torture and slavery , restricted the powers of the rajas and landowners , and spent his own money buying land for a Javanese botanical garden . |
| 24 | A Sikh girl from Newham , who had bought some clothes with her own money told me how her family had reacted . |
| 25 | To keep taxes low , leaving people as much as possible of their own money to spend . |
| 26 | Conservatives believe that people should be left with as much as possible of their own money to spend in their own interests , in the clear belief that they will spend it better in their interests than any Government will do for them . |
| 27 | And sometimes he had to go upstairs to fetch some of his own money to put to it to pay them out . |
| 28 | Many partnerships went public in the 1980s to secure capital , so the discipline that comes from handling one 's own money had been eroded . |
| 29 | Jaguar insiders say the company bosses — all 14 of them — are so enthusiastic about the car that every one of them has claimed he 'd spend his own money to buy one if it goes into production . |
| 30 | ‘ If I use my own money to buy a plough , will you supply the horses and let me spend two or three days a week hiring out to those with new lands ? |