Example sentences of "in [pron] own [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crusaders were pinned back in their own half for the first 20 minutes as the visiting pack was dominant . |
| 2 | While the ARC cooks were emptying crabs and boning racks of lamb , five girls were involved in their own competition for the espoir , the most promising young cook . |
| 3 | The lights flickered on and off , illuminating others bustling back and forth , too busy in their own rush for the exits to bother with the intruders . |
| 4 | I think the teachers did influence me a lot in their own enthusiasm for the subject ; it seemed to rub off on me , you know ; whenever they taught me something , a new concept or something , I 'd come away feeling enlightened by it , and wanting to know more , just this curiosity for more knowledge . |
| 5 | So too does its preoccupation with the shadow of death , looming in their own generation for the first time . |
| 6 | The fog continued to enclose them in their own world for the whole of the next day , deadening all sound outside so that it seemed as if everything was hushed and waiting . |
| 7 | Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour . |
| 8 | LITTLE Laura Davies played happily at home yesterday morning after waking in her own bed for the first time in more than five months . |
| 9 | Both Bills would have preserved the deprave-and-corrupt test , significant in itself , but would have added a new test , sufficient in its own right for the work to be deemed obscene . |
| 10 | In this way the child learnt that it was in his own interest for the experimenter to go to the empty box . |