Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Obviously we have n't gone for wholesale personnel changes , so you 're the hook on which we 're hanging the idea , a new programme manager whose own image is the station 's — young , smart , sophisticated and committed to the music .
2 Meanwhile , in America , there was Patti Smith , fully fledged cult idol and female rock star whose own heroes were largely male ( Morrison , Richards , Jagger , Rimbaud ) and whose sexuality was ambivalent in her look and in her poems and music .
3 Stanley Kalms , the Dixons chief whose own bid for what was then called Woolworths was repulsed three years ago , said the offer document did not disguise an attempt to acquire his company on the cheap .
4 Government controlled Straits Times newspaper last year ran as an invaluable community service its own toilets of shame campaign listing each day the country 's most offensive loos .
5 If that is farcical how does the POA rate its own performance ?
6 Catherine 's opinions about drugs are much firmer than those of another pop star her own age — Aussie actress turned singer Kylie Minogue .
7 A letter was received from Mrs. Hogan of Brighton asking if she could take over a sixteen-year-old blind boy , Arthur B. Her own son had died the previous year at the same age , and she said that she would ‘ do her best to make the lad happy , and find him light work in Brighton ’ .
8 This would stop , say , Sears putting on a Prime Option Visa card its own store account numbers or numbers for other financial services that it offers through its Dean Witter subsidiary .
9 You may still be able to emphasize the division by decorative changes , to give your dining area its own atmosphere , as you would if you were trying to divide a simple rectangular room .
10 An anonymous seventeenth-century chorographer remarked : Robert Reyce described High Suffolk as ‘ Parts inclining to the east ’ where pasture ruled , the people ‘ contenting themselves onely with so much tillage as will satisfie their own expences ’ .
11 6.5 Similar leases The tenant , if taking premises in a shopping centre under a lease containing intricate service charge provisions , may wish to ensure that all leases of units in the centre mirror its own lease .
12 ‘ This is what we 'll do , ’ Douglas told Cannutt , and he showed his stunt man his own routine , which Cannutt was obliged to film .
13 We humans used the bridge , but of course , Sally had to negotiate this dry Derbyshire creek bed her own way .
14 Using an extra RAM card your own settings can be stored and recalled for future use , or for use with another A2 — possibly one installed in a studio you are visiting .
15 In the Commons , Opposition leader John Smith provoked Tory shouts of fury when he asked : ‘ Is n't it inappropriate for the inquiry to be set up and asked to report to the very regional health authority whose own actions may be the subject of the inquiry ?
16 Review with your line manager your own training requirements to meet this challenge .
17 When she married a Kent farm labourer her own relatives disowned her : ‘ it was n't a very happy thing , you see , that she married into this family …
18 The tomb is the work of Leone Leoni whose own memorial , his house , stands close to the Duomo ( see page 90 ) .
19 For instance , a board member whose own firm is on the wrong side of a squeeze should not misuse his board position to try and break the squeeze .
20 Underbound Army Our own fighting Colonel Joseph
21 A ruling yesterday by the Accounting Standards Board means any premium or discount when a company repurchases its own debt must be be written off in the same year it is incurred .
22 In Goldfinger , when the plan to nuke Fort Knox goes awry , the glitter-loving head of Auric Industries machine-guns his own men .
23 Make a Monster is good fun , letting the younger user design their own creations using a mix-and-match technique of arms , heads , legs , eyes etc .
24 It would be possible for the government of the day utterly to monopolise the time of the House fur its own legislation .
25 ‘ I 'm trying to , ’ Carrie said , so impatiently that she sounded , he thought , more like a cross girl his own age than his mother .
26 Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson whose own title defence is in tatters , admitted : ‘ There are eight or so teams up there , but there is no indication that any of them are putting together the kind of run that looks ominous ‘ Blackburn showed the sort of confidence against us that comes from the feeling that you have got a chance .
27 A penguin keeper whose own family has flown the nest has taken on the role of mother to one of her birds .
28 Former convict John McVicar whose own prison career was turned into a film says the Home Secretary must share the blame for the murder of any inmates in Strangeways .
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