Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me . |
| 2 | With amazement and with pleasure she hears her own voice saying No . |
| 3 | In effect we defined our own ‘ real work ’ and those activities we felt should have credence were given priority , so the role we pursued simply evolved . |
| 4 | As a ghetto they create their own lifestyles and moral values and often express theologies that are anti-Christian as well as anti-human — pelagian , Arminian and gnostic . |
| 5 | Over five centuries they developed their own art and architecture , which were derived from Greek and oriental sources , but adapted to their needs in Italy . |
| 6 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 7 | And yet that high broad forehead was his , the little tilted nose was his , his the pointed — although in her case , flat — ears , and in her huge eyes he saw his own little ones . |
| 8 | This courage was to later re-emerge when , as an adviser , he fought to bring about educational change and improved resources , or , when against opposition he backed his own judgement at an appointment interview , or the courage to back a teacher in difficulty from whom others had withdrawn support . |
| 9 | In later years , when he was in the position of having to counsel others he found that these doubts were quite common , and in answering their doubts he answered his own as well ! |
| 10 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 11 | As a parent you know your own child best . |
| 12 | In Scotland we have our own particular marital madness . |
| 13 | If we serve bad-for-you foods at home we affect our own hearts , certainly , but worse still , we are serving the wrong food to our families . |
| 14 | At the point when abolitionists turned to making the emancipation issue a mass campaign they published their own news-sheet , the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter ( 1825–30 ) , followed by the Anti-Slavery Reporter ( 1830–3 ) and thereafter the mark of an antislavery organisation with claims to national standing was a paper of this kind . |
| 15 | In May he prepared his own aircraft for flight from the local farm . |
| 16 | This is why the idea of the ‘ educational toy ’ is so fraught with difficulty : the trick is never to let on that it is supposed to be educational , in case you transmit your own anxieties . |
| 17 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |
| 18 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 19 | From this basis you produce your own bright ideas . |
| 20 | Just at the moment she had her own anxieties without being expected to worry about other people 's . |
| 21 | From me you take the love of home to put it in whatever place you make your own . |
| 22 | In its place we hoisted our own flag . |
| 23 | But as individuals we develop our own language as we go along . |
| 24 | And some places that erm I know that in some places they have their own local way of speaking and then they speak a different way to other folk . |
| 25 | What was happening in Europe whilst this was happening cos that 's after the war they had their own development and they developed a different type of machine called a flat machine . |
| 26 | For many years he ran his own scaffolding company but the recession forced him out of business . |
| 27 | For 54 years he directed his own wine firm and , at around 80 years of age , launched the London Wine Exchange . |
| 28 | For years he sent his own children letters from Father |
| 29 | So And then of course we had our own thrashing mill and we did our own thrashing but it was great fun down the glen when they got the thrashing mill in . |
| 30 | It was terrible , I 'd always been independent , or when I was n't for a while I got my own social security money . |