Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence they were ‘ extracted ’ from their culture and failed to communicate to their own people . |
| 2 | ‘ I like to encourage precise , analytical draughtsmanship which is best executed in pencil , ’ Norman Blamey told Julian Halsby when he talked to him recently about his teaching and approached to his own paintings |
| 3 | Again this works against IBM , which is irrevocably committed to its own proprietary networking system , SNA . |
| 4 | But Ebert was too far along his own road now to let that colour his thinking ; too deeply committed to his own dream of inheritance . |
| 5 | It is not even as though the Government have adhered to their own reasons for refusing to act on this in the past . |
| 6 | If you reach this stage , you will probably feel guilty about it , which adds to your own discomfort . |
| 7 | This is a book much to be admired ; it contains exactly the sort of information I would have divulged to my own foundation students once upon a sketchbook project . |
| 8 | The reporter plasmid used contains four copies in tandem of the IL-6RE of the CRP gene fused to its own TATA box and transcriptional initiation site ( 21 ) . |
| 9 | In his mind he is attracted to his own glamorisation of death . |
| 10 | It is unlikely to be possible easily or cheaply for the Purchaser to come to its own conclusions as to whether or not these Acts apply even if it has access to the contractual document . |
| 11 | We want companies and workforces to come to their own arrangements . |
| 12 | They are young people from each area who speak in the local language about important development issues , facilitate discussions and encourage villagers to come to their own conclusions through a series of interactive exercises . |
| 13 | People 'll have to come to their own conclusions . |
| 14 | And it must help pupils to come to their own commitments as they live their lives in a world of confusing , diverse and often conflicting values and beliefs . |
| 15 | Unlike most tour operators , who are happy for you to go to any one of several countries , we are thoroughly biased — we want you to come to our OWN country . |
| 16 | Whatever you decide about pregnancy , it is advisable to seek support from the sources that will allow you to come to your own decision , in your own time , and not force you to make a decision that is based on their belief and judgment rather than yours . |
| 17 | ‘ And the bloody madman is walking to his own wedding with all the children , ’ she said , more in sympathy with the children than in laughter . |
| 18 | In this way the diet is easy to adjust to your own requirements . |
| 19 | He switched this ability to concentrate to his own recovery and eventually began to make progress . |
| 20 | There was no easy way to answer the bitterness in her voice , and Julia remembered what David had said about his mother 's probable feelings during the war and tried to imagine what it must have been like for Mrs Wallington , stuck in Scotland , knowing only a little but guessing all too much of what was happening to her own country — and to her two sons . |
| 21 | So I immediately assumed that this was what was happening to my own kids . |
| 22 | Harthacnut chose to remain there , presumably because he was exercised by the threat which Magnus posed to his own position , and this left Harold Harefoot , Cnut 's other son by Ælfgifu of Northampton , to dispute the English throne with his half-brother 's supporters , headed by Queen Emma and Earl Godwin . |
| 23 | In July 1947 , while Rank was in America negotiating with the five major companies , the British government responded to its own problem , a serious dollar shortage , by trying to slow down one of the major outflows and imposing a 75 per cent levy on remittable income from foreign films . |
| 24 | The health and safety department now known as the health and safety and environment department , is envied by other unions , and has clearly responded to its own review . |
| 25 | THE WELSH used to be a hindrance rather than a help to the All Blacks but , by giving Grant Fox permission to practise his goalkicking at the Arms Park prior to tomorrow 's game with Cardiff , they might be contributing to their own downfall . |
| 26 | The majority of Linfield 's moves were easily broken down , with the Blues contributing to their own problems through sloppy passing and half-hearted tackles . |
| 27 | Almost , in the midst of the new apartment that she hated as much as he did , though it had been decorated to her own specifications , she said , ‘ I have been to see my son . ’ |
| 28 | Jenna knew without being told that Marguerite was finding this difficult ; each mile had added to her own anxiety , and Alain 's mother was feeling many anxieties too . |
| 29 | If it 's inherited from an estate that of itself er attracts no tax , so there tax position would only be the income that they received from it would be subject to income tax and it would be added to their own assets so that when they die in due course then they 've inheritance payable there . |
| 30 | He grabbed at the barrel and fell with it so that the power of the big man was added to his own strength . |