Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [pron] own [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the few consultants lost were Michel Carre and Georges Orban , who went on successfully to form their own firm , Carre Orban . |
| 2 | They are also completely fearless — having long since confronted their own vision of world destruction , nothing holds any terror for them any longer . |
| 3 | One of the major problems I 've encountered with this review is actually keeping hold of the guitar long enough to form my own opinion . |
| 4 | ‘ Long enough to know my own worth , ’ Gina retorted , irritated by the sardonic gleam in his eyes . |
| 5 | They would n't have had it long enough to clear their own ground rent . |
| 6 | Bénezet had been in his service long enough to understand his own part in the operation in hand without having to be told . |
| 7 | Nicholas believed that ‘ No man can so much advance his own good and happiness in anything as endeavouring all that in him lies the good and welfare of others ; and who doth that daily doth perform the greatest good to himself as he can desire or wish for . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He could have a point , ’ Claudia said ; Dana only ever saw her own point of view . |
| 9 | They would seem to demonstrate the proposition that a text can only ever designate its own activity , that textuality is inherently narcissistic . |
| 10 | Writing to members of F&S and direct contact by shop officers with members of F&S got the most votes , so you are now asked to sign , date and send the attached ‘ model ’ letter to ( who is Chair of both F&S and SSC ) , or better still write your own version of the letter , to make your feelings clear . |
| 11 | And for good measure , it should be noted that the ECO long ago expressed his own conclusion that settlement in the UK was the intention in this case . |
| 12 | Many pre-school children will have played spontaneous games in which the pretended reading ( and writing ) of stories , lists , letters and so on shows their own recognition of the pleasurable and purposeful nature of reading . |
| 13 | It reiterates a growing theme in government thinking : that if the local authorities would only firmly write their own development plans — as they are obliged to do , but which few have — then environment ministers would feel obliged to honour them . |
| 14 | The package would seem to be designed to appeal to people with enough money to make a ‘ once for all ’ holiday payment , but not enough to buy their own holiday home . |
| 15 | For all these reasons , the Bosnian government does not much want its own capital to become a safe haven . |
| 16 | He was about to experiment with a drastic remedy — not only taking his own advice but overriding that ‘ occasionally ’ by cohabiting with a prostitute as a common law wife . |
| 17 | A failure to give proper levels of support to informal carers not only reduces their own quality of life and that of the relative or friend they care for , but is also potentially inefficient as it can lead to less personally appropriate care being offered . |
| 18 | The British Property Federation ( BPF ) has gone as far as not only producing its own system for dealing with projects but , in liaison with the ACA ( Association of Consultant Architects ) , producing its own standard building contract to suit its system . |
| 19 | Each discipline may choose not only to put their own interpretation on the material they incorporate under a heading , but also choose to organize the material in a different way , e.g. classify according to the type of processing , rather than function . |
| 20 | As such it is not only reworking its own field , but putting new questions and new evidence into the general work of the social sciences . |
| 21 | Kristian Schmid , alias Todd Landers , told us : ‘ Neighbours not only has its own style , it makes people feel good . ’ |
| 22 | Dr Hallauer summed up the importance of vaccinating healthcare workers against hepatitis B , not only to protect their own health but also for the good of others . |
| 23 | Not only did my own shape improve dramatically but so did that of my ladies . |
| 24 | In a society dominated by consumerism , every buying choice we make is a political act — by choosing to buy environmentally-friendly cleaning fluids and powders , avoiding aerosols and using lead-free petrol , we are not only minimizing our own impact on the environment but also registering a protest . |
| 25 | He considered that Liza was behaving disgracefully , maintained that Harriet was encouraging her daughter in what he called ‘ selfish laziness ’ and that , sorry as he was about the death of John Carrow , surely Harriet had not long lost her own husband and it was up to Liza to give her more support . |
| 26 | The compensatory factor was that old-school professionals did not usually have their own transport and many a signature was cajoled out of them on their way to nearest railway station or tram or bus stop . |
| 27 | The military did not always get its own way but it was in a strong position . |
| 28 | But some children , either through their experience of using tantrums to get their own way or through general strong will and temperament , will take a lot of teaching and repeated experiences to realize finally that they can not always get their own way . |
| 29 | It is true that she has not always got her own way in Cabinet , particularly in the first years . |
| 30 | For example , if the patient says ‘ I can not possibly measure my own blood glucose because I am at work all day ’ , the patient might be lost if the doctor were to insist . |