Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun pl] ' own " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early part of the decade had seen the festival succumb entirely to the boys ' own heavy metal hackery that at that point ruled the roost in certain quarters , most significantly the mind of Jack Barrie , Marquee General Manager and responsible for booking the bands . |
| 2 | Now the trick films came particularly out of the pioneers ' own attitude to their apparatus . |
| 3 | Discussions of this anxiety usually refer back to the students ' own learning in which rules were formalised and exemplificatory exercises done . |
| 4 | She knew that the one thing that her mother would never provide money for was a training in medicine , so she wrote eventually to the Boys ' Own Paper to ask them how to go about it , inventing a letter that was supposed to come from a badly-off boy whom she thought would enlist their sympathy . |
| 5 | Packages are well described , prices given before the user is invited to download i.e. transfer the programs on to the users ' own disk . |
| 6 | It is passing the market-makers ' responsibility on to the companies ' own stockbrokers , who will match buyers to sellers . |
| 7 | The solution lies firmly in the farmers ' own hands |
| 8 | The student movement formed a distinct current of protest , responding primarily to the students ' own experience . |
| 9 | The catalogue is a serious and enlightening examination of the nature of modern British art by James Hyman , which draws heavily on the artists ' own words and writings . |