Example sentences of "[noun] and [pers pn] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | So And then of course we had our own thrashing mill and we did our own thrashing but it was great fun down the glen when they got the thrashing mill in . |
| 2 | Today likewise Piraeus ' importance makes it much more than a mere annex of Athens and it has its own political traditions , regularly voting communist . |
| 3 | ( This was why he had not been allowed up to seek out Miranda in her room — though she had managed on several occasions to sneak some of her new friends past the desk ; while at night , there was no porter and she had her own key to the wrought-iron and glass front door . ) |
| 4 | They have an arrangement with the University and they have their own buildings , and they collaborate with the people here , mostly in Engineering . |
| 5 | She can be domineering at times and she wanted her own way , ’ he said . |
| 6 | That will not be easy because most of them are heavily involved in funding of all sorts of other organisations and they have their own interests . |
| 7 | They were Roman Catholics and they brought their own priests , their own life style and a cultural heritage which owed much to Italy . |
| 8 | Grasses will help to build up the feeling of luxuriance and they add their own special grace when they sway about in the breeze . |
| 9 | And then you all go round the car boot and they have their own car and they 'll be selling your stuff out of it . |
| 10 | Our interior design company offers a complete making up service and we have our own upholsterer on the premises . |
| 11 | A complex dedicated simulator can cost several million pounds and it needs its own crew of skilled operators . |
| 12 | The young woman made a point of following the respective teams ’ results and their positions in the league tables and she held her own in the sporting discussions and arguments . |
| 13 | The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh also has had a long involvement with the cultivation and development of plants with medicinal properties and we have our own Scottish traditions of herbal cures for a long list of ailments . |
| 14 | Relative isolation suited his character and he followed his own ideas with considerable success . |
| 15 | Pies scones and they made their own with the potatoes . |
| 16 | I remember me gathering the hens up that night late oh about ten or eleven o'clock at night and we had our own power you see by that time . |
| 17 | But there 's one thing I 'll hold to , I 'll have my own bed tomorrow night and you make your own arrangements for next door . |
| 18 | We are continually recruiting gaming staff and we run our own training scheme whereby the recruit starts work as a slot cashier and if found to be suitable for casino work is then trained as a black-jack dealer . |
| 19 | You see there would n't have been a kiln at the mill before that I think it every house had their own kiln and they dried their own you ken . |
| 20 | She wiped her eyes with her dainty lace handkerchief and I wiped my own on the back of my hand . |
| 21 | But er I w I would think , although it 's before my time , I would think that er of what I 've heard my father talking about these early days , there was great enthusiasm for motorcycles and of course some of the early registered numbers you 'll find that there 's many of them were motorcycles , the young men of the town who had probably been cyclists , quite a number of them er took up this motorcycling and they made their own motorcycles so were buying either kits and er even manufacturing the tanks and these things themselves . |
| 22 | She went into the bathroom and I made my own supper by slicing some of the foul cheese and shoving it between two slices of greased plastic bread . |
| 23 | After this comprehensive study of every aspect of horticulture , Miller came to the conclusion that his preference was for ornamental gardening and he established his own nursery in St George 's Fields , Southwark , later the site of King 's Bench Prison . |
| 24 | Oh they had a tap in the house , everybody had a tap in the house and they had their own toilets . |