Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | It saw a company which , by 1975 , had a turnover of five million pounds , employed 1,000 men and women worldwide , had forty shops , three factories and which was profitable enough to own its own jet . |
| 2 | Surely Rob was old enough to manage his own affairs ! |
| 3 | Until I was old enough to make my own . |
| 4 | By the fifteenth century the King of England was Lord of Ireland , though his new territory was separate enough to have its own parliament , whose power was reduced but not eliminated by Poyning 's Law of 1495 , which forbade it to pass any law that had not been approved in advance by the King and his council . |
| 5 | He was secure enough to mint his own silver pennies , which must have been among the first of the new coins to be produced and an indication of the economic vitality and continuing independence of his kingdom . |