Example sentences of "in [pos pn] own [noun sg] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artists express in their own way what they feel is saintly , what is sinful |
| 2 | Young children get a lot of pleasure from using the costumes and re-enacting ( and adapting ) in their own play what they have seen older children doing . |
| 3 | Lawrence Durrell sustains in his own way what he calls his ‘ challenge to the serial form of the modern novel ’ : in The Alexandria Quartet , he presents successively three different views of the same set of events , creating a novel ‘ not travelling from a to b but standing above time ’ ( Durrell 1957 and 1983 : 198 ) . |
| 4 | ( 15 November 1780 ) Meanwhile , Leopold continued to convey Varesco 's alterations to the text , so that his son could enter them in his own copy which he was using while writing the music . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend referred to the Chancellor 's views but , when we asked him that question in the Select Committee , it became clear that he was not so much against it in principle as uncertain in his own mind what he should do . |
| 6 | I think that what happened was that a lot of traditional union members , that is , the white , heterosexual male stewards who normally formed its backbone , for once took a back-seat , and allowed us to get on with it — to organize in our own way which we did . |
| 7 | A thorough self-assessment will help you get totally clear in your own mind what you are most suited for and what you actually want . |