Example sentences of "[noun] that [pers pn] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as a stranger that I greet my own self , and see it as an unknown fellow traveller through time . |
| 2 | His experience with Mossadeq also convinced the Shah that he needed his own money , and outside the country . |
| 3 | South-West Durham Coroner Colin Penna recorded a verdict that she took her own life . |
| 4 | Jacqui was just the frayed end of an otherwise completed pattern and it was with reluctance that he dialled his own number . |
| 5 | Now choose your new belief — based upon love , trust , abundance , and the belief that we create our own reality . |
| 6 | Why should Paul 's preaching have so provoked the Nazarean hierarchy that they sent their own emissaries in his wake to discredit him ? |
| 7 | On the contrary , it 's part of our ever-changing uniqueness that we have our own opinions and beliefs , that we prefer certain sports , hobbies and interests , that we enjoy the company of some people and not others , that we like certain poets , novelists and playwrights and loathe others — and that is fine . |
| 8 | The only powers that control fate are the Gods , and so when Tamburlaine mentions in a conversation which he has with Theridamas that he controls his own fate , this implies that he believes he is a God : ‘ I hold the fates bound fast in iron chains , and with mine hand turn fortune 's wheel about ’ . |
| 9 | She bent her head so he could n't see her blush at the thought that he meant their own relationship , and pretended to do something to the heel of her shoe . |
| 10 | So compulsively did he watch me empty my glass that he drained his own in compulsive sympathy . |
| 11 | But the long weekend was on the strict understanding that she pay her own way . |
| 12 | Gay had begun , characteristically , by wishing Susan and Breeze luck in their new home , and it was not until near the end of the letter that she mentioned her own affairs . |
| 13 | He was absently scrutinising her set face , projecting an air of such unshakeable self-confidence that she mourned her own reserves of self-esteem . |
| 14 | It does n't necessarily mean that they 're unscrupulous in the way that they get their own way ; they just have very clear ideas and it 's impossible for them to see it any other way . ’ |
| 15 | In effect they will be assessing you in much the same way that you make your own self-assessment and then trying to match you to jobs in the way that you should do when applying for jobs directly . |
| 16 | As the decade rushed on , as he saw or read about slaughter in Abyssinia , beatings and murder in Hungary , Romania , Albania , racial violence in the Memel , Carpatho-Ukraine , Slovakia , fascist killing in Italy , Germany and Spain , communist in the east , Edward Carrington grew more and more amazed , then horrified , by the country that he supposed his own . |
| 17 | He had gingerly opened the Book , which was chained to the octiron pedestal in the middle of the rune-strewn floor not lest someone steal it , but lest it escape ; for it was the Octavo , so full of magic that it had its own vague sentience . |
| 18 | They often eat weeds and weed seeds and their economy of intake is illustrated by the fact that they consume their own droppings . |
| 19 | The Croats point to the fact that they retained their own chief executive — the ban ; their own assembly , the Sabor ; and their own judicial system . |
| 20 | His father persuaded the minister to conduct the funeral service without reference to the fact that he took his own life . |
| 21 | Kirton , though , achieved rather more fame for the fact that he took his own lemons to Athletic park when they did not have the appropriate fruit to go with his gin-and-tonics , and that he watched the game from the in-goal area , puffing on a cigar with a long checked scarf around his neck . |