Example sentences of "[pron] own home [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Mysteries of Greathaven are famed even in the far distant streets of my own home town … ’ |
| 2 | It was a horrendous , rapacious strategy that they had used to gain control of their own home system . |
| 3 | The camcorder has given everyone the chance to star in their own home movies . |
| 4 | They are 50 per cent more likely to carry out their own home improvements than Southerners . |
| 5 | They would let them stay on until they married and got farms of their own , because , perhaps , their own home circumstances would not be very good . |
| 6 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 7 | Young males are busy right through adolescence establishing their own home ranges and learning the pecking order among the orangs in their part of the forest . |
| 8 | The fact is that we still have a great deal to learn about the skills that animals use to find their way around their own home ranges and to travel the globe . |
| 9 | They started exchanging recollections of older pageants in their own home towns . |
| 10 | It found that Arthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield , president and general secretary respectively of the NUM , had not used donations to miners to pay off their own home loans . |
| 11 | The pricing policies of our car factories , which show very low profits , mean that foreigners can sell their vehicles in Britain at a higher profit than in their own home markets . |
| 12 | Many pupils go on field courses , and the area they visit could form a focus for contrast with their own home area . |
| 13 | For most people she says , this is the closest they 'll come to seeing the treasures of their own home town . |
| 14 | For most people she says , this is the closest they 'll come to seeing the treasures of their own home town . |
| 15 | Following the success of last year 's eponymous debut LP , the Scouse three-piece have been busily constructing their own home studio and working on new material expected before the Summer . |
| 16 | The idea is that they feed the other side with what appears to be genuine material so as to establish their credibility and then the other side asks them to do things for them on their own home ground . |
| 17 | In a similar way , social actors need not have any embracing concept or model of what lies beyond their own home ground . |
| 18 | As a Nottingham Member , my hon. Friend is justly proud of the higher education opportunities for his constituents in their own home city where we have a fine polytechnic and a magnificent university . |
| 19 | Local health and social services , for example , are unlikely to develop better care for mentally disordered offenders within their own home districts unless financial incentives encourage them to do so . |
| 20 | The Works had its own Home Guard Company , that of B Company of the 2nd Bucks Battalion , under the command of Major P. Dewick . |
| 21 | A 17,000km 2 logging concession in Guyana 's rainforest has been granted to a firm co-owned by a Malaysian company responsible for many human-rights and environmental abuses on its own home ground , in Sarawak . |
| 22 | Even on what became its own home ground , however , the pluralist approach was not unchallenged , nor of course was it the first chronologically . |
| 23 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 24 | After the assault , and before she broke up with her boyfriend earlier this year , Miss C went to a German gynaecologist , in her own home town . |
| 25 | Brian came from her own home town , though she had not known him there : this had some significance , both acknowledged , though Liz could not have said what it was . |
| 26 | could not have been happier , both personally and in creating an atmosphere conducive to his work … the domestic ideal that is evident in his writings ( the family being his favourite subject of study and lecturing ) was most clearly represented by his own home life … his wife created for him the respectable and quiet familial existence which he considered the best guarantee of morality and of life . |
| 27 | The European Convention differs in that it establishes effective enforcement machinery of which the aggrieved individual can avail himself , even where the alleged offender is his own home state . |
| 28 | Exclusively for the Clothes Show Magazine , Anthea Gerrie flew to Milan to meet Giorgio Armani on his own home ground and put a face to the name . |
| 29 | Contrarily , the more open the boundaries , the greater the degree of ‘ all else equal ’ in common aims , interests , social acquaintanceships and idioms of discourse , the more fluid the boundary and the greater the likelihood that a working competence across the boundary can be negotiated by the actor himself , from the resources of his own home ground . |
| 30 | The outside world is , for the social actor , the opposite of his own home ground . |