Example sentences of "[pos pn] own [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left to my own devices I think I might have shrugged my shoulders and accepted it . |
| 2 | On the days when I am left to my own devices I am a bit of a disgrace really . |
| 3 | Both through my background reading and my own observations it appeared that day care is perceived differently by different providers of services . |
| 4 | ‘ If I had my own clubs I might , ’ Sir Bryan said gloomily . |
| 5 | What was peculiar about my own circumstances I have already tried to describe in the hope of finding and revealing some useful clues . |
| 6 | In my own turfs we are quarrelling among ourselves with intense energy about whether women can be ordained priests , about who is more Catholic than their neighbour and about a whole host of internal issues , because we apparently have neither the grace nor the guts to face up to the real issues which are the business of the Church in the current world . |
| 7 | After my own experiences I wo I would n't advice someone not to go to their G P , but firstly , I would advice them to contact the Eating Disorders Association er , because they are very helpful and they 're more supportive than any G P I 've ever come across . |
| 8 | On the occasions of my own visits I always manage to see something new when I visit Rutland Water : a preening water rail in full view below Lax Hill , four buoyant , saw-billed goosanders showing off their diving skills , short-eared owls roosting at dusk on the fence posts of the Hambleton Peninsula , a pair of displaying great crested grebes presenting mutual gifts of waterweed … |
| 9 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 10 | The only thing see is that it 's all my own tapes they 're such crap ones and like they just sound really bad when they 're recorded on . |
| 11 | I do n't know how many years it went on and then there were a lot of ploughs and boys a lot of their own ploughs I think . |
| 12 | Through their own efforts they have created a happier , healthier environment for their children . |
| 13 | Where this involves opposition to those who run the global system in their own interests it will naturally involve transnational practices in the economic , political and cultural-ideological spheres . |
| 14 | In their own refectories they ate a ceramic-reinforced , drug-laden booster diet in silence , ending with a prayer recited by an older initiate . |
| 15 | Although you should make a specific time when candidates can ask their own questions you should also allow time for questions which arise naturally at an earlier stage of the interview . |
| 16 | If multi-national companies exist and dividing frontiers against workers for their own games we should organize , cooperate and perhaps even amalgamate to resist the combat , to co to combat common problems and disputes second or third class nation will not service British workers but will undermine the nations . |
| 17 | So against the narrow focus of the impact of enterprise unions within their own firms we need to consider how far their achievements are filtered down to small firms where formal labour representation is minimal . |
| 18 | Occasionally you can say you think they 're being stupid or have they thought about other things but at the end of the day people are answerable erm for their own decisions I feel and , if I have an opportunity I 'll tell them what I think , but er if people are n't wanting your opinion then you ca n't really give it |
| 19 | While officers struggled with each other to improve their own positions they often united to block any attempts at reform by the Crown . |
| 20 | Bibb atoned for his error at the start of the second half , when after Castleford lost the ball in front of their own posts he pounced quickly and beat three tacklers for the third Rovers ' try , Knapper adding his first goal . |
| 21 | Some governments say that in order to keep the rebellious minorities down within their own countries they must have a large military strength . |
| 22 | ‘ Now schools have their own budgets I hope we shall see growing diversity , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Because the development officer in Ipswich was not able to see these institutionalised clients in their own homes she understandably found it hard in many cases to say whether or not she agreed with the decision that they should not return home . |
| 24 | If such people with planned social care can be kept in their own homes it is worth pressing for flexibility of resources to put in the extra help needed . |
| 25 | Yet in their own terms they seem fairly content with their lives , and they do not rail against the fate that has left them with this role . |
| 26 | When they get back to their own places they go to the middle and pick up a ‘ pearl ’ and go back to stand in their places . |
| 27 | When they both protested , seemingly in vain , at having lines cut , they came up with their own solutions they would accept the cuts , but make do with them badly . |
| 28 | For this we must rely to a great extent upon Soviet goodwill and if we make difficulty over returning their own nationals it will react adversely upon their willingness to help in restoring to us as soon as possible our own prisoners . " |
| 29 | Apart from presiding over their own hierarchies they might also , as they most certainly did in Medieval Christendom , play important roles in the wider community of the state . |
| 30 | The Normans were ruthless conquerors , but in their own domains they knew what to preserve ; and Palermo remained , like London , the most populous and prosperous city of its region . |