Example sentences of "[pron] own [vb base] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was fortunate to be able to include in addition to my own account a lecture by the former Lord Justice Devlin in which he took the fourth Appeal Court severely to task for the illogicality of its reasoning and for usurping the functions of the jury , and a chapter by Bryan Magee about his efforts over the years to try to persuade the Home Office to reopen Cooper 's case . |
| 2 | Teachers who on their own make the effort to design appropriate materials are doing a great and necessary job in the promotion of community languages , adding to the growing storehouses of available approaches : working groups for the creation of teaching materials can make this activity more efficient and exciting , especially when headteachers can be convinced of the value of such activities in the framework of the normal timetable of departmental meetings , perhaps using ‘ slack time ’ which becomes available during examination periods . |
| 3 | People on their own enjoy the relaxed and friendly atmosphere of the hotel . |
| 4 | If you could follow a leopard as it makes its way along such a track or even through the jungle itself , you would see that the animal blazes its own trail every 20 yards ( 18 m ) or so by spraying trees and bushes with its scent mark . |
| 5 | Denunciation may not on its own provide a general justification for having a penal system , but it may help provide us with one acceptable prin-ciple of distribution for punishment . |
| 6 | Another aspect of this later circumcision of particular pertinence to the present discussion is that removal of the foreskin did not on its own render the rite effective . |
| 7 | Watney 's came in with its own offer a week after Joseph and £4 million higher than his . |
| 8 | She also knew what was good for herself , so she kept for her own use the money that she was given for the children 's food . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't worry , Mary , ’ her mother said , as she said so often these days , her own face a portrait of Anxiety , ‘ everything will turn out for the best . ’ |
| 10 | Her own sleep the light , fragmented pre-waking kind by this time , Maria realised what was happening at once and merely gave him a sleepily complacent smile , pleased to see the disturbance in his eyes as he regarded her suspiciously . |
| 11 | His father , long dead , had been a dentist , and his son had taken for his own use the old man 's inordinately large store of self-designed surgical overalls . |
| 12 | On your own choose the five that you think are the most important . |
| 13 | Now on your own have a go at chief . |