Example sentences of "[verb] them [prep] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doody notes that Leapor picks up Swift 's characters or anti-characters and turns them to her own purposes . |
| 2 | An interesting aspect of any ‘ counter-revolution ’ is that it takes the terms of the ‘ revolution ’ and turns them to its own purposes . |
| 3 | In verse erm thirteen , I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them into their own land . |
| 4 | She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English . |
| 5 | Nippon Steel Corp has now reached agreement for Hitachi Ltd to transfer to it the technology to manufacture 4M-bit memory chips : the chips will be made at NMB Semiconductor Ltd , which will become Nippon Steel Semiconductor Corp when the steel company acquires the Minebea Co unit later this month ; Hitachi will take some of the parts and sell them under its own name ; Nippon Steel says it has already concluded similar agreements with Intel Corp and Sony Corp on production of other types of memory chip . |
| 6 | Or just eat them on their own ? |
| 7 | Toolbars are also customizable ; you can construct your own by dragging tools from existing bars and attaching them to your own . |
| 8 | Once the laws are introduced , the coaches and the players will try to devise means of using them to their own advantage . |
| 9 | By taking V2s from here , from the mountains , shipping them back and using them for their own experiments . |
| 10 | Nor did the Flemings feel that he was really supporting them ; he had appeared to be using them for his own ends . |
| 11 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 12 | Of Charles Hutton : ‘ For the accommodation of such gentlemen and ladies as do n't choose to appear at the public school , I propose ( at vacant hours ) to attend them in their own apartments . ’ |
| 13 | and then er regarded them as their own , you know . |
| 14 | The fog continued to enclose them in their own world for the whole of the next day , deadening all sound outside so that it seemed as if everything was hushed and waiting . |
| 15 | The drooping branches of the willow tree seemed to enclose them in its own embrace . |
| 16 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 17 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 18 | Experienced social workers were given a case manager role for a small case load of such elderly people , with the task of keeping them in their own homes on a budget of two-thirds the cost of residential care in a local authority home . |
| 19 | Jessamy had known straight away that nothing would ever throw her off balance , that she would deal with life 's disasters and crises in a calm , dispassionate way , finally resolving them to her own satisfaction . |
| 20 | They are all conscious thoughts and once you have experimented with them you 'll be able to adopt your favourites or replace them with your own . |
| 21 | Founded by David Blechner and Jack Schumann in 1973 , the firm started out as a computer bureau , hiring time on its computers to customers who used them for their own jobs . |
| 22 | It is therefore a bonus for the theory that clay replicators synthesized organic molecules and used them for their own purposes . |
| 23 | It controlled public resources in the manner of a private owner , and used them for its own purposes . |
| 24 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 25 | It was pointless to try to catch them on their own ground as their friends were too numerous and their alibis too readily available . |
| 26 | In practice this often meant that immature minds would take over Leavis 's own evaluations without relating them to their own experience of literature , resulting in the diffusion of callow or inept judgements that has been condemned from the right by C. S. Lewis and from the left by Catherine Belsey . |
| 27 | The purpose of the visit was to review North Sea technologies with a view to utilising them in their own oilfields . |
| 28 | ‘ Not if we challenge them in their own sphere . ’ |
| 29 | He passed her , holding his face away from every shouted word , interspersing them with his own but not loud enough to be heard : ‘ Stop it , ’ ‘ This is destructive , ’ ‘ Do n't say these things , ’ until in the middle of the hall he thrashed the coat repeatedly against the floor , yelling louder than he had ever done . |
| 30 | Other team members , the bull-grapplers , hurled themselves on to the bull 's horns to pad them with their own bodies and make the beast lower its head ( Figure 50 ) . |