Example sentences of "in [pos pn] own [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought that such armament was compulsory for anyone privileged enough to own a private car in my own time reminded me that , Napoleonic Wars apart , I was now in an age where the safety and sanctity of the individual was taken for granted . |
| 2 | In Reg. v. Walhein ( 1952 ) 36 Cr.App.R. 167 , before the days of majority verdicts , after the jury had returned to court and one juror had said : ‘ I can not in my own mind find him guilty of the charge which prosecuting counsel have not proved , ’ the commissioner at the Central Criminal Court then said : |
| 3 | Looking round at people today and you mi , try to imagine them in their own home setting you know ? |
| 4 | And their odd jobs , they 'd probably got men in their own factory to do it , but no they sent them to Dick and I er used to oblige . |
| 5 | It is to this existential challenge that the writers here discussed addressed themselves , all in their own ways meeting it by demonstrating how to go on the game of faith ! |
| 6 | She had n't meant to shout , and the rage and frustration in her own voice shocked her . |
| 7 | She 'd be there , waiting , in her own way praying I 'd make it back OK . |
| 8 | She said the KGB minder in her own squad followed her everywhere but claimed not to speak any English . |
| 9 | Ronni sat slightly forward in her own seat to face him . |
| 10 | Yet many easterners complain that , since their revolutions began in 1989 , the Community has been too wrapped up in its own affairs to give them the attention they deserve . |
| 11 | He declared : " The new confederation should therefore , on the contrary , make the path to the EC easier for these countries and in its own way prepare it and act as its mediator . " |
| 12 | An exclamation in his own language left him then . |
| 13 | More important , the Theatre Royal ( 1836–7 ) and the Grey column ( 1837–8 ) in Newcastle , stately neo-classical structures which were key elements in the heroic replanning of the city centre by Richard Grainger [ q.v. ] , were evidently also his conceptions , and suggest that he might have become a more significant figure in his own right had he not died relatively young , surviving his father by a mere six years . |
| 14 | Calum Callan , 24 , a close friend of Paul , said : ‘ He seemed very keen on her and in his own words said she was angelic . |
| 15 | There were only three divisions in the city — east , west , and central — and each of us in our own division knew we were the élite ; for just as the men in the west were certain they were best , so the men from the east remained convinced of their own superiority . |
| 16 | D'Indy may be excused for missing the point of Rameau 's ‘ tied ’ and slurred crotchets : only in our own time has it been realised that these denote the kind of tremolo recently studied by Stewart Carter . |