Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] own [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sleeping-car attendant sighed deeply at so much opulent femininity and philosophically returned to his roomette , and I went on up the train into the next car , where my own bed lay . |
| 2 | They now supposed that Marian and Allen must be trying to pass the depression to the south , and if this were so there was still ample time to position themselves to cut off that route although it involved going considerably deeper into the forest and into territory where their own danger was greater . |
| 3 | He says these forces will move into areas where the retreating Serbs ( or Croats or Muslims ) ‘ have been protecting villages and towns where their own constituent people are in the majority . ’ |
| 4 | And then to watch Annunciata trip back to the kitchen , where her own Ferdinando was preparing supper , was too much . |
| 5 | Where her own fantasy fitted in , he did not know . |
| 6 | She heard her grandmother informing her that out there , in that Mongolian vastness , was ‘ The Dragon 's Tomb ’ where her own great-grandfather had gone to find the dinosaur eggs . |
| 7 | For he was an eagle in flight to the North where his own kind were and no raven nor man would stop him now . |
| 8 | He was educated at Wallingford Grammar School , on the Thames , where his own ability was aroused by a ‘ whizz-kid ’ music teacher . |
| 9 | Where an officer wants to see what a new or unconsented discharge consists of , therefore , or where his own judgment suggests that a discharge may be polluting , he turns to his sample bucket , which offers the ultimate means for practical purposes of establishing the kind and degree of pollution . |
| 10 | I love you more than me own self . |
| 11 | As life in general was unreal and remote — seen through a sheet of glass — so my own suffering seemed unreal . |
| 12 | ‘ So my own cottage on the Donegal shore where I can slip away when I 'm not filming is the answer . |
| 13 | However insignificant in myself I am the Representative on this question of no mean body in this country who would be … disappointed and chagrined at the suspension of the question — But further — and this is a consideration far more really influential on my Conduct — I can not but feel myself the Representative of a Body who can not speak for themselves and for whom I must act without other guide than my own Conscience . |
| 14 | In the air at around 3,500 feet I found that , provided one held it with the antenna close to horizontal , the ICOM IC-A20 MkII could produce quite accurate VOR indications at distances of well over 25 nm from the VOR — rather better than my own King KX99 does . |
| 15 | But 40%–60% of every character is one 's self and the point is that the fiction would be a truer picture of my spiritual life than my own life . |
| 16 | ‘ Though I sometimes think Violette is more like me than my own daughter . ’ |
| 17 | I tell you they did more for me than my own mother did . |
| 18 | And yet I know it almost better than my own street . |
| 19 | The church is using state money rather than their own money and it was felt that the church had become another agency of the state in this regard . |
| 20 | As far as the first point is concerned , there is I believe a real appeal for many people , not least on Christian grounds , in arguing that the overriding need at present in the U K is for the government , the TUC and the CBI to sit around a table and talk , so that both corporations and unions will change their behaviour and act in the public interest rather than their own self-interest . |
| 21 | ‘ He has this notion that women are not capable of managing anything more important than their own kitchen — and then only if they have a competent cook . |
| 22 | The peasants had little notion of belonging to any wider grouping than their own volost' , like Nikol'skaia , or even sometimes , and depending on the subject , than their own village . |
| 23 | Egyptians usually spoke badly of anywhere other than their own village and district . |
| 24 | What better place to release them than their own territory ? |
| 25 | Indeed , the ideological leanings of readers ' papers had more impact than their own ideology . |
| 26 | Indeed , the ideological leanings of readers ' papers had more impact than their own ideology ( though much less than their partisanship ) . |
| 27 | The peasants had little notion of belonging to any wider grouping than their own volost' , like Nikol'skaia , or even sometimes , and depending on the subject , than their own village . |
| 28 | European directives on acquired rights and the transfer of undertakings regulations have given public service shop stewards their first glimmer of light over C C T which they fought for a decade with little more than their own bluff and courage . |
| 29 | But the behind-the-scenes truth is that the cast and crew rarely went further than their own back yard . |
| 30 | I met executives who knew the inside of a Concorde better than their own back yard , who had telephones stuck permanently to their ears . |