Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have heard my own favourite , Alchemilla mollis a useful hardy gap-filler , described as just that by a fellow gardener . |
| 2 | I have whittled my own shortlist down to four models : the Thorens TD166VI / UK with Rega arm ( £269 ) , Systemdeck IIX ( £248 ) , the Rational Audio Aura 01 ( around £195 including a Linn K5 cartridge ) and the Rega Planar 3 ( £250 ) . |
| 3 | The chapters that follow seek to outline the ways in which I have pursued and developed my own management skills , and the lessons that I have learnt on the way . |
| 4 | Perhaps I might have recognized my own hypocrisy , if it had not been for Richard 's behaviour in the next months . |
| 5 | Schoolgirl fantasies were fulfilled when I was given my own dressing room and bathrobe . |
| 6 | Given my own predicament , I was left in no doubt that Cooper and Murphy had also been fitted up . |
| 7 | I felt ashamed for having loathed my own life for so long . |
| 8 | I have never completely resolved my own dilemma , for I do not think it has a simple resolution . |
| 9 | ‘ If I 'd known Kelly could n't come , I 'd have cancelled my own trip . ’ |
| 10 | Members of the community were to be permitted their own opinions in matters of politics and religion , but property would be held in common . |
| 11 | Many residents have installed their own faxes to complete the office-from-office style . |
| 12 | They have also attracted their own market in terms of housing , holidays , magazines , insurance and even a whole weekend supplement of the Financial Times ( 6 January 1990 ) . |
| 13 | He remains the most notorious of a large group of retired Israeli intelligence and security men whose dubious activities in support of unsavoury regimes have embarrassed their own government . |
| 14 | By this time , New Scientist had organised its own survey of what was likely to happen when the task force reached its objective . |
| 15 | The only restrictions on purchasers were not to have owned their own home during the previous three years or to have spent more than $100,000 on their prospective North Side home . |
| 16 | But where other churches have owned their own schools , as does the Church of Ireland in the South , a similar position has been adopted , though the reasons for the position have been on different grounds . |
| 17 | CGI 's top three officials , including chairman Robert Mallet , who together hold 25.4% , have committed their own shares to the bid . |
| 18 | Especially since the demise of Vanguard and the simplification of the inter-unionist competition , the DUP has stressed its own reliability ( ‘ for trustworthy leadership , vote DUP ’ ) and made much play of divisions within the Official Unionists and the continued presence in the Unionist Party of some people who were tainted by O'Neillism and power-sharing . |
| 19 | She , on the other hand , having finally regained her own life and independence after years of child-rearing , wanted to turn her attention to her own needs . |
| 20 | Local authorities whose members believe that their particular ideologies should be furthered through schools have added their own ingredients . |
| 21 | The authors have added their own glosses on and redefinitions of some statements of attainment . |
| 22 | Thereafter , as many as a dozen other females will have added their own babies to the creche in the tunnel in the same way . |
| 23 | It seemed there was no love for the boy in this house , and though Sarah could hardly believe it , Maggie had let her own well-being be bought at Patrick 's expense . |
| 24 | And , of course , the fact that Jeanette Winterson had picked her own novel as her ‘ Book of the Year ’ had to be dragged up again . |
| 25 | The UN report blamed the army , the police and right-wing death squads for 12,000 disappearances since 1983 , confirmed that this was " by far the highest number recorded by the working group for any single country " , and suggested that there could still be many more ( a European Parliament team having recently reported its own estimate of 60,000 killed or missing ) . |
| 26 | And Meiko reminds us that its next-generation massively parallel system ( UX No 401 ) , uses no transputers — the UK , Bristol-based research and development operation , has designed its own communications processor which will operate alongside the Fujitsu Ltd vector processor and Texas Instruments Inc 's Viking Sparc . |
| 27 | Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this . |
| 28 | For more than half a century , in accordance with the collector 's will , the paintings occupied their own suite of first-floor galleries . |
| 29 | Some clients have carpeted their own rooms and got their own curtains and things like that . |
| 30 | Such a different walk from the day she arrived and had carried her own bag into the house . |