Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] own [noun sg] " 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 | But at Tunis his own career was once again to take a new turn . |
| 15 | As a result his own kingdom was divided among his brothers . |
| 16 | But in practice his own research had proved that IMF austerity programmes force Third World countries deeper into debt . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | mm , who was telling me that somebody 's four year old son has got a video and television in his bedroom his own video |
| 20 | ‘ I 've just given the barman his own show on the telly , ’ he explained , handing them around . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Usually she flashed back with a Mind Your Own Business , if anyone asked her a question . |
| 23 | His words called to mind our own culpability , which we find hard to admit . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | During this time it travels only five times its own length , and the widely spaced propellers allow it to turn in its own length at low speed . |
| 28 | However , carbon produces more then 3.5 times its own weight in carbon dioxide so there is a problem in disposing of it . |
| 29 | The grain is a polyacrylamide called Agrosoke , which can absorb 40 times its own weight in water . |
| 30 | Johnson & Johnson in Canada is currently making sanitary towels out of the stuff ( peat moss soaks up 12 times its own weight of liquid ) . |