Example sentences of "[pos pn] own [noun sg] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 2 | They did n't have it all their own way at the Royal Variety Show last night . |
| 3 | For instance , BBC staff who sell their own house at the old location and buy another property at the new location receive a grant of £1094 to cover the cost of miscellaneous expenses . |
| 4 | The anti-standing army campaign was led by radical Whigs such as John Trenchard , Walter Moyle and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun , who held their own club at the Grecian Coffee House in Devereux Court off Essex Street , London . |
| 5 | The importance of such links was stressed by Yeltsin during his visit to the USA ( on June 18-21 — see above ) and on June 23 it was announced that Russia was to have its own counsellor in the Soviet embassy in Washington and to have its own representative at the Soviet UN mission . |
| 6 | In 1959 , three years after he applied for German papers under his own name at the German embassy , he fled to Paraguay as the Frankfurt authorities issued the first warrant for his arrest . |
| 7 | She had turned her big dining room into a study ; there each boy had his own place at the big felt-covered table , — books could be left undisturbed . |
| 8 | Nequam , in his Supplementum Defectuum , implies that Adam was still alive near the time of his own arrival at the little bridge , around 1175 . |
| 9 | ‘ Then I suggest we reconvene our own meeting at the earliest possible opportunity . |
| 10 | During those early seventies , despite the avalanche of heterosexism that constantly slid in our direction , including the virulent expressions of women-hating propounded by Father Church , a group of us waged our own war at the patriarchal system . |
| 11 | For a long time Laura had nurtured this dream , but Bernard well knew that selling products in your own shop at the same time as supplying other retailers was a risky undertaking ; the latter regarded it as unfair competition . |