Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 2 | I am leading you along the path I had to tread to find the most suitable disease , for only in this way can I be sure that the reader understands the nature of the ultimate decision and the ludicrousness of any attempt to confuse it with my own stick and gloves or any prior misinformation regarding the state of my own health . |
| 3 | It was alleged ( a ) that the plaintiff was possessed of the goods ; ( b ) that he accidentally lost them ; ( c ) that the defendant found them ; ( d ) that the defendant converted them to his own use . |
| 4 | The boys at school were sure to snigger at him behind his back , and the Irishman and his rough friends would have one more excuse to belittle him for their own amusement . |
| 5 | Seb always felt vaguely uncomfortable when Melody caught him on his own . |
| 6 | So instead of renting out the planes from the Blue Max museum , the team came up with a plan to use them in their own production . |
| 7 | However , even when the genetic indices are expressed in money terms , farmers and their advisers will need help to interpret them for their own individual situation in these early days . |
| 8 | The general purpose database manager like SUPERFILE , needs a bit of work to configure it to your own particular needs . |
| 9 | Breathing work teaches us about our own possibilities and limitations of movement and influences deep and intensive breathing |
| 10 | In this sample , however , not one parent wanted it for their own child , and in general they were more prescriptive about what was morally correct for other parents here than on any other issue . |
| 11 | [ 12 ] Most dog owners have had the misfortune to see it in their own pets in a dog fight . |
| 12 | But she was quite ready to assign her nuclear units to a NATO Multinational Force ; indeed , she was , in effect , already doing so through the joint targeting of her V-bombers with the US Strategic Air Command , subject to her right to use them for her own purposes if vital national interests were at stake . |
| 13 | Sackville took him into his own service as secretary , and secured his return to the Parliament of 1601 for the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 14 | At the end of April 1686 the Tory lord mayor of Bristol took it upon his own initiative to disturb the celebration of the mass by a group of English Catholics , committing the priest and all those present to prison . |
| 15 | It is also crucial to ask whether the media are able to cope with this growth in information and whether they can do anything to counter the efforts of governments to manipulate it for their own ends . |
| 16 | Dark grey eyes , Celtic eyes , were ironic , as was his smile as Giles made the introductions , including Cavell Fielding , and Maria returned it with her own piquantly imperfect smile . |
| 17 | Of course , I had my dreams , like all young girls , of a tall , dark and handsome man coming striding over the fell one day to claim me as his own . |
| 18 | Two speechless simian Servitors attended him , one to ingest his waste and cleanse him , the other to nourish him with its own enriched blood and shift his cart from window to window — from which he gazed out , praying for an exploration vessel of his Chapter to pass this way . |
| 19 | Paige recognised it as her own . |
| 20 | Once again , Arthurian legend underlay the idea of the Order , but the adoption of the garter as its symbol was said in later years to have occurred when , at a ball at Calais in 1348 , the Countess of Salisbury dropped her garter and the king , who was rumoured to have been in love with her , picked it up and in the face of derisive cries from the onlookers put it on his own knee with the remark , ‘ Honi soit qui mal y pense ’ — shame upon him who thinks ill of it . |
| 21 | ‘ Maybe there will be someone to fill Lineker 's shoes in years to come but at the moment the replacements must be given a chance to do it in their own time . ’ |
| 22 | The bus back took her past her own mother 's house . |
| 23 | Nobody used the shed , and Conradin took it for his own . |
| 24 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 25 | After the patient has run out of things to tell you on his own initiative make enquiries into each of the sections covering the particular complaint of the patient . |
| 26 | God created us for His own purposes , gave us free will to decide between good and evil , but retained unto Himself the ultimate decisions about the creation of life . |
| 27 | He 'd paid countless prostitutes to satisfy his craving , but never had a woman done it of her own will , until Jacqui . |
| 28 | Other team members , the bull-grapplers , hurled themselves on to the bull 's horns to pad them with their own bodies and make the beast lower its head ( Figure 50 ) . |
| 29 | It was a long time after their invention that yarn spinners adapted them for their own purposes . |
| 30 | Basically that David had moved out of Plaistow Grove to leave her on her own to die , to live with the fancy whore from America , and yet on other days , of course , I was perfectly lovely and would come and shop with her and do everything . |