Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over his cupping hand she placed her own . |
| 2 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 3 | Using a similar approach I categorised my own activities as illustrated in Table 1 . |
| 4 | Brian Jacksons wrote eloquently about the still frequently thwarted aspirations of young fathers today to be different from the invisible or authoritarian men they remember their own fathers as having been . |
| 5 | Sunnyside Road , and erm , it were it was good accommodation we had our own bathroom and toilet er but again accommodation was cramped , we had no spare room |
| 6 | I laced my arms round his back , under his own arms , letting his face fall on mine , and in that awkward position I blew my own breath into him , not in the accepted way with him lying flat with most things in control , but into his open nostrils , into his flaccid mouth , into either or both at once , as fast as I could , trying to pump his chest in unison , to do what his own intercostal muscles had stopped doing , pulling his ribcage open for air to flow in . |
| 7 | But on the eastern margin it keeps its own counsel : instead of heading out to sea to follow the line of the Easter Island Ridge , this Pacific Ocean boundary stretches ( with only three minor hiccups ) directly down the American coasts , from Attu Island in the Aleutians to Diego Ramirez Island off Cape Horn . |
| 8 | At the point when abolitionists turned to making the emancipation issue a mass campaign they published their own news-sheet , the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter ( 1825–30 ) , followed by the Anti-Slavery Reporter ( 1830–3 ) and thereafter the mark of an antislavery organisation with claims to national standing was a paper of this kind . |
| 9 | The weaker often needs to copy the stronger — for every one of her foreign bombing campaigns conducted with supreme arrogance and ruthless certainty he had his own dirty little war on distant barren islands , his own vicious murders on the Rock . |
| 10 | With a funny crooked smile he undid his own buttons , then gently pressed her face against his bared chest , his palms warm and hard against her head . |
| 11 | In their achievement as adults — each imposing his order on an external world he made his own — they were united in triumph . |
| 12 | She claims she has been ‘ very lucky ’ , though concedes that ‘ to a certain extent you make your own luck ’ . |
| 13 | And yet that high broad forehead was his , the little tilted nose was his , his the pointed — although in her case , flat — ears , and in her huge eyes he saw his own little ones . |
| 14 | But first , something has to be said about consciousness and intentions , because in everyday life we interpret our own behaviour in these terms , and it seems natural to do the same for animals . |