Example sentences of "[noun] as [pers pn] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 2 | I felt the sinking whir of the back wheel as it dug its own grave . |
| 3 | Forget the hand on your hair even though it hurts , and ram the heel of your palm into his mouth as he raises his own fist . |
| 4 | The headmaster expanded into geniality as he contemplated his own cleverness in ensuring that Hilary Frome remained at Burleigh for his GCE year . |
| 5 | Few words had been spoken — Denis had been glad of his gun 's eloquence as he found his own voice suddenly unreliable . |
| 6 | Orality is also a feature of the fiction of Juan Rulfo , whose Pedro Páramo re-creates the world of rural Mexico through a narrative which initially appears to be a conventionally written text but turns out to be constituted orally , with one of the characters , Juan Preciado , emerging as the internal author as he recounts his own story and hears and transmits those of the other characters . |
| 7 | His eyes gleamed and he breathed noisily through his nose as he lifted his own rifle to his shoulder then fired both barrels at the shadow in quick succession . |
| 8 | Having cruelly ignored the band for two years as they dragged their own equipment between some of London 's less than prestigious live dives , people are finally beginning to wake up to the idea of Suede . |
| 9 | ‘ I knew your name as I knew my own . |
| 10 | A terse and gritty thriller in which an investigation into a mysterious death leads cop Joe Mantegna through both the mean streets of the present and the horrors of the past as he confronts his own identity . |
| 11 | And , according to a new survey by Friskies Petcare , we take our pet 's diet so seriously three-quarters of owners put as much effort into preparing and serving their animals meals as they do their own . |
| 12 | Paintbrush in hand , Kylie recalls the beautiful things in life as she creates her own , very individual , landscapes , portraits and still lifes . |
| 13 | Finally , you probably realise by now , in light of the January magazine , that we are keeping the membership as up to date as possible with developments as we plan our own Secretariat . |
| 14 | Soon after , perhaps only a matter of weeks , they are dead , or dwindling rapidly in size as they absorb their own body fats . |
| 15 | Rune 's voice , low and demanding , stilled her hand as he held his own glass towards her . |
| 16 | The white tube , the cork-effect filter , the solid hot flare of the match and my lips tell me of my lungs as I make my own smoke , with its blue drifting and acrid smell . |
| 17 | God is all things to all Nuer ; they see him with as many different faces as they divide their own society into separate kinship groups . |
| 18 | Many instructors are not careful , or thoughtful enough about either their initial teaching or their subsequent monitoring of their students as they do their own cockpit checks . |
| 19 | Marc slid it off and trailed it all the way back along her inner arm as he withdrew his own . |
| 20 | Many years later , Kevin MacLean and Edward Scott zeroed in on pebbles and stones as they investigated their own kind of erosion , this time that of the landscape seen in close-up . |