Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] [prep] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back . |
| 2 | The danger facing American troops , military analysts say , is that the new civilian government headed by President Guillermo Endara may not be strong enough to rule on its own . |
| 3 | If it is not strong enough to grow on its own , let it die as soon as possible . ’ |
| 4 | In my view , an unsharp image in colour however beautiful will rarely be strong enough to stand on its own , whereas the same image in black & white can through the nature of the medium , become a tantalising and thought provoking subject . |
| 5 | After all , he 's old enough to answer for his own actions . |
| 6 | ‘ We all thought I was old enough to manage on my own , ’ he said laconically . |
| 7 | This demands that they each individually recapitulate within their own personal development the evolution of their culture — a process which is the unconscious and fundamental equivalent of formal education . |
| 8 | Report to me when you consider she is proficient enough to manage on her own , ’ Kerly said . |
| 9 | There is a definite set of biomorphs , each permanently sitting in its own unique place in a mathematical space . |
| 10 | They lay for a while , their hands lightly clasped , each deeply engrossed in their own thoughts . |
| 11 | After the whambamthankyouma'am of the sixties , the seventies barely existed in their own right , but were more a kind of dream time when no one wanted to admit the good times had gone , or indeed had never really been . |
| 12 | So that , erm , the fact that you 're increasing erm , protection , protectionism against it , is n't it likely to upset the producers who are exporting it , and who say it 's no point exporting it there cos we 're going to get erm , huge thing put on our things and we 're not going to sell that much , it might be better just sell in our own country , is n't that reduce world tr |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll all just pay for our own . ’ |
| 14 | We are all deeply immersed in our own understanding of these things — we live the reality of them every day . |
| 15 | The Apostate almost chokes on her own laughter . |
| 16 | Exposed to Minton 's freewheeling , glamorous Bohemianism , some found it difficult afterwards to stand on their own feet , for Minton had effectively broken them away from their backgrounds or their jobs . |
| 17 | First , a star with a mass of roughly will end its cycle of thermonuclear burning with an iron core which is massive enough to collapse under its own gravitational self-attraction . |