Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] own [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the community were to be permitted their own opinions in matters of politics and religion , but property would be held in common . |
| 2 | Many residents have installed their own faxes to complete the office-from-office style . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | CGI 's top three officials , including chairman Robert Mallet , who together hold 25.4% , have committed their own shares to the bid . |
| 5 | Local authorities whose members believe that their particular ideologies should be furthered through schools have added their own ingredients . |
| 6 | The authors have added their own glosses on and redefinitions of some statements of attainment . |
| 7 | Thereafter , as many as a dozen other females will have added their own babies to the creche in the tunnel in the same way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some clients have carpeted their own rooms and got their own curtains and things like that . |
| 10 | On the negative side , as political opponents are only too ready to point out , Chevenement has installed his own men in key positions . |
| 11 | Bush should have trusted his own misgivings about attending the dinner , confessing he knew it would be ‘ something sorrowful and sad ’ . |
| 12 | Mick has slashed his own earnings from the Autocap components business to just £9,000 a year . |
| 13 | Clustered in the doorway of the stone hut , intent and fascinated by the spectacle before us , we had forgotten our own fighters . |
| 14 | Each separate constituent part of the organisation had developed its own personnel information systems and methods of operation . |
| 15 | Only very gradually did a small number of educated critics come to see that although quite different from the Russian and European film the Hollywood and Hollywood-inspired film had developed its own qualities and that the great mass audience for that kind of entertainment had been responding quite genuinely to positive influence . |
| 16 | Our local starling population is a race apart in that they are non-migratory and have been isolated in the islands for long enough to have developed their own characteristics . |
| 17 | The successful schools , in contrast , took up more GIST suggestions more enthusiastically , or even developed their own ideas for interventions . |
| 18 | They copied the Gallo-Belgic coins , soon developed their own styles , and , by the decade prior to the conquest , Rome 's official assessment of Britain , according to Strabo , was a healthy balance of trade . |
| 19 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
| 20 | Many people have developed their own ways of preparing them selves , such as rehearsing what they are going to do in their mind . |
| 21 | Both May and Bert in The Residents chapter suffer from chronic pain , and have developed their own ways of coping with it . |
| 22 | She welcomed her mother 's suggestion of Dudley Poplak , a discreet South African-born interior designer who had furnished her own homes . |
| 23 | A CHARITABLE company set up to help homeless and needy people has given its own helpers a vote of thanks . |
| 24 | Successive Secretaries of State formulated their own versions of what the polytechnics should be , and in doing so established a substantial amount of ambiguity . |
| 25 | Those who argue that the modern nuclear or conjugal based family is a ‘ relatively isolated ’ unit do not deny that individual family members may maintain strong relationships with members of the families in which they were brought up ( their families of origin ) even after they have married and formed their own families ( their families of procreation ) . |
| 26 | Disaffected workers who have formed their own tribes ? ’ |
| 27 | Because there had been a recent spate of thefts from boats in the area the Club had formed its own teams of vigilantes who patrolled the moorings and by chance one of these noted down the camper 's registration number . |
| 28 | Middle class women , including feminists , who deplored the idea of state employees entering working class homes regarded their own activities in this regard as right and proper . |
| 29 | But last night they had broken their own rules . |
| 30 | The NUM 's main trouble with the courts arose over actions brought by its own members on the grounds that the union had broken its own rules ( over a pre-strike ballot ) and for contempt . |