Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To date almost 100 graduates have participated in the GEP and the majority have gone on to successfully launch their own businesses . |
| 2 | Cook eventually created his own fleet of floating palaces to carry the ‘ Cookii ’ down the Nile . |
| 3 | THE history of science is a sequence of conflicts between incompatible theories in which each side vigorously defends its own theory until conclusive evidence persuades a majority to accept one view . |
| 4 | She wrote a highly perceptive appreciation of Burns 's character in the Dumfries Journal ( August 1796 ) and collaborated energetically with Burns 's biographer , James Currie — thereby also effectively protecting her own interests and reputation . |
| 5 | By thinking carefully about every detail , Geoff successfully created his own look . |
| 6 | The House then went on to pass its own defence budget which seriously undermined the future of the B-2 " Stealth " bomber programme and the Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI ) . |
| 7 | The British Property Federation ( BPF ) has gone as far as not only producing its own system for dealing with projects but , in liaison with the ACA ( Association of Consultant Architects ) , producing its own standard building contract to suit its system . |
| 8 | Indeed , HyperCard has created such interest that IBM swiftly produced their own HyperCard lookalike which they call LinkWay . |
| 9 | ‘ But is n't it the case , ’ I ask him , ‘ that while people are piling into the cinemas to see the worst exports of Hollywood , they are also piling in to see our own films , such as Alan Parker 's The Commitments , which has after all just won the Bafta award for best film . ’ |
| 10 | Less than an hour later , at Bath , the strain of running the campaign as party chairman only to lose his own seat is painful to see in the face of Chris Patten , who bites his lip . |
| 11 | This has had an effect on the JCT , which has not only revised its own forms , but is working hard to extend its range . |
| 12 | The homeostat , the automaton concerned only to preserve its own equilibrium , was never a convincing model of human behaviour . |
| 13 | One boy had to ‘ solve ’ the problem straight away by suddenly producing his own gun , even though intellectually he recognised that the ‘ rule of the game ’ was that the passengers were unarmed . |
| 14 | John Lawton was master for this voyage , fresh from another ship but prudently bringing his own cook with him : it fell to Robert Titford to be first mate . |
| 15 | Still he said no more , merely eating his own rations then packing up ready to leave . |
| 16 | Look , I 've no money for a hotel so I 'd better make my own arrangements for tonight . |
| 17 | Many of his paintings are portraits of young women , perhaps reflecting his own position as an only son with seven sisters . |
| 18 | And , while not necessarily eclipsing their own songs , the rash of covers — chosen for maximum heartbreak potential — offer pointers into their mindset . |
| 19 | For all these reasons , the Bosnian government does not much want its own capital to become a safe haven . |
| 20 | The Soviet , Italian and German governments naturally justified their own infringement of non-intervention , to which they officially subscribed , by reference to the conduct of the other side . |
| 21 | TV personality Leslie Crowther , 59 , has recovered from his car crash coma well enough to write his own name at Bristol 's Frenchay Hospital . |
| 22 | See dockers are only protected , when they say they go on strike , they 're only protecting their own jobs in my opinion . |
| 23 | Was Darwin , then , mistaken in so relating his own science to Newton 's ? |
| 24 | Whether we covet , confine or curse it , the mink is only minding its own business . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , as we have been at pains to argue , to do so would be only to impose our own interpretation of reality on the reader . |
| 26 | As such it is not only reworking its own field , but putting new questions and new evidence into the general work of the social sciences . |
| 27 | The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired . |
| 28 | Aine Murray explained : ‘ My father was driving along minding his own business when the window suddenly came in . |
| 29 | German agents were allowed to act freely in what the British had hitherto considered their own area of influence . |
| 30 | Political edge groups like The Redskins , Billy Bragg and The Three Johns held the music press to ransom , peddling their polemics while feverishly climbing their own ladders to success . |