Example sentences of "own [noun sg] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had my own heart broken by one inquisitive straight lady , way back in my desperate youth . |
| 2 | If they were educational programmes they probably had their own teaching built in too . |
| 3 | In 1982 , two days before he died , he wrote a document in his own handwriting headed ‘ My Will by Percy Winterbone ’ but did not sign his name at the foot of the document . |
| 4 | Although the juxtaposition of short story and source material would provide in itself a useful basis for an informal discussion of composition and technique , the proposed extension to the activity undertaken here involves participants developing their own story based on the newspaper account . |
| 5 | Of course , his own eminence contributed to his isolation , but he also chose solitude as his appropriate fate . |
| 6 | A ferocious-looking man whose tangled hair resembled the roof of his own tent held up to them a rough bowl . |
| 7 | ‘ Mrs Fanshawe 's own sister identified the dead young lady as Miss Nora Fanshawe . ’ |
| 8 | It seemed insanely silly to Lydia that she should be standing in her own kitchen flanked by two women for whom she had no time . |
| 9 | It soon appeared in public in Cropper 's own pamphlet addressed to Wilberforce and in the writing of his and Roscoe 's colleague in the Liverpool Anti-Slavery Society , Adam Hodgson . |
| 10 | Your own key provided for access at all times . |
| 11 | When items are faulty , not delivered on time , or more rarely where Ian has by his own fault succeeded in botching an order , then he goes on the defensive . |
| 12 | The Lord Chancellor has his own department headed , since the 1880s , by a permanent secretary . |
| 13 | Why this should be an objection to the control of pollution from nitrates is not clear , and it also overlooks the government 's own study commissioned from Sir William Halcrow and Partners . |
| 14 | You are invited to our Diamond House to see a little of the art of the diamond cutter , have your own ring valued and cleaned if you wish and maybe even purchase a ring or stone at very attractive discounts on UK prices . |
| 15 | She was crushed so tight against him that she could barely breathe , and as his own mouth moved to her ear , his tongue flicking erotically to trace the whorls , she moved her hands to his belt . |
| 16 | At the time of her break-up with Hugh , not wanting to worry her mother , she had kept much of her own unhappiness hidden . |
| 17 | He says they caused considerable damage to property , hedgerows were burned out , buildings affected , farmers ' own equipment set on fire and their own crops . |
| 18 | There is also a tennis court ( own equipment needed ) , solarium ( payable locally ) free use of sauna and steam bath twice a week , private access to the lake for bathing , and free use of rowing and pedal boats . |
| 19 | There is a pool with deck-chairs and bar service , and tennis courts nearby ( own equipment needed ) . |
| 20 | NT had its own pavilion manned by a group of independent software vendors showing their wares . |
| 21 | ‘ Everyone had his own salad prepared in the kitchen . ’ |
| 22 | Where her own fantasy fitted in , he did not know . |
| 23 | The Tarentaise has also been exported and has breed societies in Canada and the USA as well as its own herdbook established in France in 1880 . |
| 24 | their own recklessness written all over them . |
| 25 | Being a Silver Jubilee , passengers were serenaded by the Eccleston Silver Band as they rode behind four steam locomotives in a range of stock from our own home made coach to a Welsh coach from our No. 1 steam engine 's home of Llanberis to the diminutive but delightful Groudle Glen coach from the Isle of Man . |
| 26 | that the plaintiff by his own failure to take reasonable care for his own safety contributed to his own illness . |
| 27 | I have had my own opinion confirmed with the advice from the business convenor and the vice convenor , and that is that we determine that this is in fact a counter motion that you have spoken to because it is against the spirit of the deliverance . |
| 28 | Her own body flinched at the thought . |
| 29 | As he smelled the smouldering frankincense , he would imagine his own body inflamed and his soul soaring from it like smoke . |
| 30 | Leonora Carrington and Leonor Fini portray the female as a sorceress , her body combining with animals , planets and the earth itself , while Frida Kahlo repeatedly showed her own body rooted ( sometimes literally ) in nature . |