Example sentences of "own name " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except mine own name : that some whirlwind bear |
| 2 | He wanted to roar out James 's name , his own name , to scream for help , he tried to pull up on the sill but his fingers scrabbled uselessly and he dropped back . |
| 3 | It is surely no coincidence that while Mrs Donaldson proudly signs her own name , P A Newton sees fit to resort to the utterly immature tactic of hiding behind a transparently obvious alias . |
| 4 | In the earlier Possessed notebooks Granovsky appears under his own name , and Peter Verkhovensky ( it must be recorded ) is often Nechaev . |
| 5 | He never seems to take time off : a friend tells of how Joey , Mr Lee 's young son , once protested by scrawling his own name in his father 's diary for an appointment . |
| 6 | I was therefore surprised to see that he excluded his own name from the list . |
| 7 | Amongst the jumble of words , he distinguished his own name and the word ‘ home ’ . |
| 8 | It will compel B to let C make the legal claim in his name ; in the last resort it might allow C to take proceedings in Equity in his own name against A. Thus it came to be said that ‘ in Equity debts and choses in action are assignable ’ . |
| 9 | He can sue in his own name . |
| 10 | But it created a new kind of assignment , which was a legal assignment in the sense that the assignee might sue directly in his own name without making the assignor a party ; but it made certain special requirements : |
| 11 | I will use my own name . |
| 12 | I wanted to get back to myself and to my own work , to all that he had robbed me of — even my own name . |
| 13 | Fancy having a hide-out with your own name on it . ’ |
| 14 | After a night spent scared , confused , alone in miles of dark desolation , tormented by his imagination , seeing his own name written there had helped him to keep his sanity , to believe in his own existence and identity . |
| 15 | He jumped nervously at the sound of his own name . |
| 16 | ‘ Lucy ? ’ he said , as his own name returned . |
| 17 | The use of ‘ Ba ’ registered with Wilson more than her own name — she had not realised Mrs Eckley was on such familiar terms . |
| 18 | He is an art history graduate of the Courtauld Institute and was one of the founders of Prospect Tours , but now runs a company under his own name . |
| 19 | In 1959 , three years after he applied for German papers under his own name at the German embassy , he fled to Paraguay as the Frankfurt authorities issued the first warrant for his arrest . |
| 20 | But the press had already been tipped off : Mrs Simpson 's car had been booked on to the Channel steamer in her own name . |
| 21 | When Bovet won the prize it was noted that he had never taken out a patent in his own name or sought to make a penny from the commercial expoitation of his research . |
| 22 | They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name . |
| 23 | ’ Beatrice 's own escapism took many forms : she wrote under different names , always as Alice Morning in her ‘ Impressions of Paris ’ but also as Robert West , Cynicus , Beatrice Tina , Robert A. Field , T.K.L. ’ Minnie Pinnikin and occasionally in her own name . |
| 24 | Both plans were designed to assist your parents and to help on your dear sister , but above all to build up your own name and reputation in the world . |
| 25 | Since the Prince had accepted in his own name , should he not , in his own name , now renounce his claim ? |
| 26 | Since the Prince had accepted in his own name , should he not , in his own name , now renounce his claim ? |
| 27 | But , at last the claret-flavor recalls pretty distinctly its own name , ‘ claret ’ , ‘ that wine I drank at so-and-so 's table ’ , etc. ; and the burgundy-flavor recalls the name ‘ burgundy ’ and someone else 's table ... |
| 28 | After a while ... the adhesion of each wine with its own name becomes more and more inveterate , and at last each flavour suggests instantly and certainly its own name and nothing else . |
| 29 | After a while ... the adhesion of each wine with its own name becomes more and more inveterate , and at last each flavour suggests instantly and certainly its own name and nothing else . |
| 30 | The French had their own name for it — chaudepisse . |