Example sentences of "own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is one danger facing Armani , it 's that of becoming trapped in his own stereotype ; when the day finally comes that he tires of the simple suit and sensational jacket , the world may just insist that he keeps on making them . |
| 2 | Edmund displays throughout a relaxed , almost dapper manner , far removed from the obsessive Iago , eaten up by the suspicions in his own innards . |
| 3 | Rider Haggard offered this strange combination of a Gibson Girl and an embodiment of ancient divinity as the nucleus of adventure stones in his characteristic mixture of vigorous narrative and personal philosophy but his portrait of a distant ideal , strongly affected by his own reticences and sublimations and those of his time , is hard to take seriously today . |
| 4 | Digital Equipment Corp 's ACA Services 2.1 which is compatible with the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture mechanism is now available for AIX , HP-UX — $5,000 each — Macintosh System 7 — $300 — and DEC 's own OpenVMS AXP — from $4,000 to $28,000 . |
| 5 | Such was the respect in which the Drama Board was held by teachers , advisers and teacher-trainers alike that the profession as a whole gave support to this new examination , the first ( apart from Peter Slade 's own certificate in Birmingham ) to give recognition to talented classroom teachers . |
| 6 | Prior to the formation of this body , three entirely independent examining bodies , each giving its own certificate to successful students , existed for persons wishing to become teachers of the deaf . |
| 7 | For absences of seven calendar days or less ( short spells ) , civil servants were able to complete their own certificate explaining their absence . |
| 8 | In a civil question between the creditors of a deceased and insolvent certificate-holder and his widow , who , without objection by the creditors , obtained the certificate and thereafter carried on the business without any agreement being made regarding her paying her husband 's debts , or the application of the profits during her tenancy , it was decided that she was not bound to account to the creditors for the profits earned by her under her own certificate : Stewart 's Trs. v. Stewart 's Executrix ( 1896 ) 23 R. 739 . |
| 9 | Written and oral components can be taken separately and each part confers its own certificate . |
| 10 | OCA issues it 's own certificate to those who require written evidence of their achievement . |
| 11 | The Catering guild 's training procedures provide catering services managers with programmes for local on-site staff training and the company aim to improve the expertise at all levels , culminating in their own Certificate of Excellence . |
| 12 | My own robe , and your jewels . |
| 13 | He had thrown aside his own robe then , and had stood for a moment looking down at her , the firelight playing over his body , and Grainne had felt her senses tumble , for surely , oh surely there had never been anything so beautiful and so strong … |
| 14 | Now the McKoy crew release their long-playing debut ‘ Full Circle ’ on their own Rightrack label . |
| 15 | Colony spends $1,000 to send back each Vietnamese Thailand may start own deportations . |
| 16 | Politics , page 6 ; Thailand may start own deportations , page 9 ; Leader comment , page 22 |
| 17 | The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry . |
| 18 | ‘ You screwing the IRA and Daddy boring Mummy and me over the roast beef with what a socialist champion you were , daughter after his own heart . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd like to help the small beer producers of Britain more , I 've made a start with cider — I 'm stocking Dunkerton 's cider from Herefordshire ; Ivor really is a man after my own heart , full organic status from the Soil Association . ’ |
| 20 | If Pound in this way did bypass Aubeterre , he missed something after his own heart . |
| 21 | Because , when he 'd seen Olivier , just after 1945 , had n't he said there was a man after his own heart ? |
| 22 | To you , it doubtless seems as ‘ unnatural ’ as ripping out your own heart with a mechanical claw . |
| 23 | With all the flowers- and the birds- and the presence of the Sea , the purity & brightness of your own heart could surely take a day nearly perfect . |
| 24 | She could hear her own heart beating … . |
| 25 | The fact was that his own heart had grown irresistibly fond of the love of his life , Senora Isabel-Maria Estanguet de Moss , whose husband had just been posted to the Argentinian Embassy in Brussels . |
| 26 | Oh , what pleasure would it be to me were there a good understanding between my mother and myself , when I am assured if I know my own heart , that I am so far from having any ill against her that I have almost undone myself to serve her … |
| 27 | He is closer to the true core of our being than our own heart throb , nearer to us than our own presence . |
| 28 | Hoomey could hear nothing specific above the diesel thumping noise of his own heart … some sort of bad-tempered conversation . |
| 29 | In Admiral [ later Admiral of the Fleet ] , George Lord Anson , Pitt had a First Lord of the Admiralty after his own heart , a resolute professional who had been a captain at 27 . |
| 30 | I saw 'im in the Observer wearing all that leather clobber and 'e looked like a man after me own heart , man . |