Example sentences of "own [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With financial help from the Rockefeller family and Gere 's own money the organising committee had a base of £300,000 from which to create the exhibition . |
| 2 | The boxing match ‘ is the public incarnation of all conflict ’ ( II , 32 ) , totalizing in its own struggle the whole of ‘ contemporary irreducibilities and fissures ’ ( II , 26 ) : |
| 3 | After all , he and Nicola were lovers , and from his own experience the sergeant knew violence and passion were jealous twins . |
| 4 | The development is one of recovery of health from sickness ; Hilton sees that man 's dual nature has a double inheritance : the sickness of the self that we are born to ( 3.19 – 20 ) and the transcendent " heritage of " ( Scale 2. 46.139r. – 301 ) that we can work towards : In The Scale Hilton developed at greater length the nature of the active and passive elements that belong to the contemplative life through which those who pursue it discover in the structure of their own experience the very being of Christ . |
| 5 | This generally took place at Easter preceded by confession , often in public , in which the social duty of making restitution for sin was stressed ; it might be succeeded by a parish party which played out at its own level the eternal being of love celebrated in the Mass . |
| 6 | By his own admission The Doc is a lawyer 's dream come true . |
| 7 | The church 's response says that by its own admission the Scottish Office Education Department recognises the inadequacies of its proposals . |
| 8 | Each creature understands his own kind the best . |
| 9 | So if you are feeling depressed about not owning your own horse the answer is do n't ! |
| 10 | 7.7.9.1 to rebuild and reinstate at its own expense the Premises or the part destroyed or damaged to the reasonable satisfaction and under the supervision of the Surveyor the Tenant being allowed towards the expenses of so doing upon such rebuilding and reinstatement being completed the amount ( if any ) actually received in respect of such destruction or damage under any such insurance policy or |
| 11 | In my own practice the equivalent of two complete surgery sessions of people fail to turn up each week without letting us know . |
| 12 | The showmen hated those whom the Cinematograph Year Book always described as ‘ the Busybodies and Meddlers ’ and thought of their demands in terms of what the Bioscope referred to as ‘ Prussianism ’ but in order to keep control of their own industry the showmen accepted many of the standards of middle-class taste and insisted that what they would provide would be for the most part family entertainment . |
| 13 | He found that he could direct a free horse to choose the correct feed bucket — the one containing oats whilst the others were empty — by visualising in his own mind the oats lying in the bottom of the bucket . |
| 14 | By clarifying in your own mind the exact nature of these positions you can enter into bargaining with much greater confidence . |
| 15 | The eyes that see ourselves see always the same creature throughout life ; in our own mind the child and the youth and the mature man are the same . |
| 16 | as if running away from his own mind the tragic Haffey emigrated to Australia where Scottish exiles still see him as a figure of unrivalled fun . |
| 17 | I can sill see in my own mind the ball knocking down the middle stump , and as Hearne walked past Lowry he said , ‘ This is quite unfair , Mr Lowry . ’ ’ |
| 18 | Lan , for her part , hoped fervently that her innocence would be self-evident , and as she watched her prostrate grandfather 's lips moving soundlessly she began to phrase in her own mind the plea for leniency she intended to submit to the ancestral spirit . |
| 19 | Although in prose — as one says , perhaps too much influenced by the conventions of the comedies — this is one of the most serious scenes in the play ( 91–229 ) , and when the soldiers have left the King ascends to verse for what is to me the most deeply felt speech of all : In his own persona the King speaks verse , entering on to a prose-scene between Fluellen and Gower to express his anger at the French murder of the luggage-minders , and continuing in verse to Fluellen ( IV.vii.55–118 ) . |
| 20 | The organization concentrated its activities on publishing anti-semitic literature , most notably the Protocols and Beamish 's own concoction The Jew 's Who 's Who ( 1920 ) . |
| 21 | Government regarded as an unacceptable invasion of its own sovereignty the use of proceedings in the United States courts as a means by which the United States government sought to investigate activities outside the United States of British companies and individuals which might infringe American anti-trust laws As has already been noted , a request for extracts from a public record is an example of a Request falling outside the judicial function in some States . |
| 22 | Indeed , in the author 's own village the parish register was being kept in Latin as late as 1657 . |
| 23 | To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school . |
| 24 | The specialist teacher or adviser will need to discuss with the pupil 's own teacher the information obtained from screening procedures that has a bearing on adaptations to learning materials or to the environment . |
| 25 | For their own safety the babies were kept in cages but were handled every day by Regina and Monica . |
| 26 | Deliberately he walked into the minefield , triggering off every mine and thus absorbing in his own body the entire explosion . |
| 27 | And unless we can find in the end a proposition or set of evidence en which has somehow in its own right the probability 1 , all these probabilities will have nothing to rest on . |
| 28 | The time of the children was spent entirely on tape listening ( 15 minutes ) question and answer ( 25 minutes ) and working on their own tor the balance . |
| 29 | A situation report from Hesse in March 1936 expressly mentions the opinion , allegedly widely held among the population in the area , though undoubtedly reflecting above all the views of Party activists , ‘ that the Führer had for outward appearances to ban individual actions against the Jews in consideration of foreign policy , but in reality was wholly in agreement that each individual should continue on his own initiative the fight against Jewry in the most rigorous and radical form ’ . |
| 30 | But never completely : in turning back upon his or her own desire the deviant knows how to read the history within it . |