Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] own [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . |
| 2 | In any case they were quite clear where their own priorities lay : |
| 3 | The head needs to encourage staff to scrounge for good management , display and communications ideas from schools where they have previously worked , schools where their own children attend , industry , supermarkets , courses , magazines and even books . |
| 4 | For working-class women , especially the many who lived still in conditions of severe poverty where their own wages were essential to the household , a decision to share a household with an elderly person simply could not mean full-time unpaid caring . |
| 5 | Dana had a blind spot where her own interests lay . |
| 6 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 7 | Secure in your status at work , becoming a parent may cause confusion — a woman may have to adjust from a professional role to a maternal one , where her own needs become relegated ; a father may have to adjust to there being a new small person in the family who makes his role seem less significant . |
| 8 | He ignored her , lifting her with his strong arms on to the bed , his hands still on her thighs and dangerously moving inwards where her own fires burned unchecked , waiting to be extinguished . |
| 9 | Fardine took us to the edge of his terrace , where his own pigeons were kept in a large coop . |
| 10 | At a time when English officialdom has been worrying about the fact that some among their top youngsters are playing more golf than is good for them , Stevely has had the same feelings where his own pupils are concerned . |
| 11 | A wilderness is a place of contrast , where our own rules and values for living can be challenged , where we can learn something about humility and the inventive resilience of unmanaged nature . |
| 12 | Got on better with him than my own parents , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 13 | ‘ I began to realise that you had wonderful qualities , though I had to convince my mother with something more than my own feelings and impressions . |
| 14 | It promises to be rather more straightforward ’ — he grinned — ‘ than my own enquiries . ’ |
| 15 | Although my own options were fairly limited — and moving was not one of them — satisfactory alternatives do thankfully exist . |
| 16 | There are also many other organisations which willingly provide their particular form of expertise when AlB need a more profound appreciation of a problem than their own resources can provide . |
| 17 | Their Lordships also upheld the trial judge 's refusal to allow the defendants to put any evidence before the jury about why they believed that nuclear weapons , rather than their own actions , were ‘ prejudicial to the safety … of the State ’ . |
| 18 | Now they 're better Jews than their own parents ever were — I know one chap from Willesden Green who wo n't even eat in his mother 's kitchen any more . |
| 19 | But there is something of a tension in Mill 's view , because he thinks that erm it 's very important that if there is plural voting then the people who only have one vote should be prepared to accept the situation , so that the reasons why these people are given extra votes should be reasoned that the public , the uneducated accept past critics have pointed out if that 's going to be the case , why is it necessary to give these people extra votes , give the educated actual votes , because if the uneducated accept that the decisions of the educated are worth more than their own decisions , the opinions of the educated are worth more than the opinions of the uneducated , if they really do accept that , what 's to stop them just following the decisions of the educated in their own vote ? |
| 20 | On the other hand , it was for a very long time the only kind of popular medical and natural science handbook which was available to laypeople , who possessed little knowledge of such matters other than their own experiences and the tales of other . |
| 21 | Of course , some young fathers are fascinated by their babies and enjoy cohabiting co-operatively , finding more " meaning in being fathers than their own fathers did . |
| 22 | At the same time , some women in the older generation believed that they were a less significant source of advice and support for their daughters than their own mothers had been for them , and all were concerned to ensure that their support did not amount to ‘ interference ’ ( Blaxter and Paterson , 1982 , especially pp. 174–9 ) . |
| 23 | Firth , Hubert and Forge report that some people get on with their mothers-in-law better than their own mothers , but for the most part these relationships are regarded as likely to be tricky : people treat them as an ‘ occupational risk ’ of marriage and regard themselves as ‘ lucky ’ if they work out satisfactorily ( 1970 , pp. 414–15 ) . |
| 24 | However , it is inefficient from a user 's point of view to leave course assessment to suppliers ( who will not necessarily be assessing the same thing as users ) , and inappropriate to expect individual users to be able to evaluate courses within any framework other than their own needs . |
| 25 | Moreover , on the old system where teachers shared responsibility for more than their own lessons , they were brought much more closely into contact with one another , in an informal way . |
| 26 | Continued financial pressure on the NHS has led many authorities to reduce their long stay provision or to buy places within the private sector , which are often cheaper than their own beds . |
| 27 | After her mother died in a car crash she was sent to live with an aunt , who was barely more welcoming than her own parents had been . |
| 28 | He was in a far better position financially to help her than her own parents who had a lot of children and responsibilities , whereas he had no children and everything he had would go to her . |
| 29 | The Queen has been talking to prime ministers every week since the early fifties : when it comes to practical experience , she is better placed to give advice than her own advisers . |
| 30 | ‘ Good , live firing 's just stopped and if the last few nights are anything to go by , we 'll be hearing from the battlegroup soon , once their own fitters have had a chance to check out the day 's casualties. , |