Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I was told to mind my own business . ’
2 But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’
3 And one tends to conclude that all attempts to be poetic in some manner or other defeat their own end ; whereas an intentness on the quality of the emotion to be conveyed makes for poetry .
4 Conveyor belting : Although often part of heavy machinery , belting demands its own method .
5 But Weber gives wertrational action its own standing and importance and , when we come to think about expressive rationality later , we shall return to the topic .
6 Those who had come to New England to have an opportunity to practice their own approach to religion , and then found they did not agree with the views held by those who were in power , had a more serious problem .
7 Freeze marking is used by a growing number of owners to give animals their own serial number and put off thieves .
8 Stella is a wild card both in the deepest recesses of Serena 's own mind and in the domain of middlemen , for Stella is the only character in the novel who is exempt from this status : ‘ Stella was in effect her own middleman , alone in the world , selling her personality , and very badly ’ ( 30 ) .
9 Many owners do not realize what effect their own behaviour has on their dog .
10 It 's only natural she should want to be with kids her own age . ’
11 The shop-floor seemed strangely silent in the absence of the usual sounds of machinery , hammering and drilling and to Rachel 's disappointment her own centre was also empty .
12 This would stop , say , Sears putting on a Prime Option Visa card its own store account numbers or numbers for other financial services that it offers through its Dean Witter subsidiary .
13 Shocked is coming to terms with her loss her own way .
14 Douglas was glad to acknowledge Miller 's help and told the Royal Society that he had received some coconuts ‘ germinated in this country by the industrious Mr. Miller , by whose care and skill they were brought to this perfection ; and besides he very freely communicated to me for the good of the publick his own methods in management in raising them which I here desire may be read in his words . ’
15 But at Tunis his own career was once again to take a new turn .
16 If he did , then he was aware of the situation of risk and , it is suggested , should be acquitted only if his failure to consider that she might not appreciate the nature of the act was reasonable , bearing in mind his own capacities .
17 As a result his own kingdom was divided among his brothers .
18 But in practice his own research had proved that IMF austerity programmes force Third World countries deeper into debt .
19 In the course of defending Creole against Shane 's objections , Chris actually begins to use Creole , distancing his own talk from that of Shane and putting into practice his own belief that " if you want them to know your culture you have to chat it " .
20 His experience had led him to become a teacher at training sessions , but that prevented him from putting into practice his own form of calculated waging of war .
21 mm , who was telling me that somebody 's four year old son has got a video and television in his bedroom his own video
22 ‘ I 've just given the barman his own show on the telly , ’ he explained , handing them around .
23 Send Andy your own compilation tapes including , if you wish , selected tracks by Country Joe And The Fish , Edwin Starr , Billy Bragg , Elvis Costello , John Lennon , Soho , The Farm , Robert Wyatt , Metallica and our Lisa .
24 Using an extra RAM card your own settings can be stored and recalled for future use , or for use with another A2 — possibly one installed in a studio you are visiting .
25 Usually she flashed back with a Mind Your Own Business , if anyone asked her a question .
26 And it is men and women , people on low income and children , you know your , so bear in mind your own children and grandchildren , if they have n't got income up to three four four five , tell them to watch this deduction of tax from banks or building societies .
27 His words called to mind our own culpability , which we find hard to admit .
28 Legs have become elongated into catapults that can propel an insect two hundred times its own body length , broad oars to row , it through water or thin hair-tipped stilts with a wide stride that enables their owners to walk on the surface of pools .
29 Natural gas contains up to 95 per cent methane , a gas with a high calorific value which requires ten times its own volume of air for complete combustion .
30 The thing that made it attractive to Paneth and Peters , and years later to Pons , Fleischmann and Jones , was its great affinity for hydrogen — it can absorb up to 900 times its own volume of the gas .
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