Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goodridge 's best-known work is the Lansdown tower on the edge of the city , built in 1824–7 for the celebrated William Beckford [ q.v. ] , who had settled in Bath in 1823 ; and this and his own residence , Montebello ( later Bathwick Grange ) on Bathwick Hill ( 1828–30 ) , are compositions of great originality , combining a Picturesque irregularity of form with an eclectic mixture of Greek and Italianate detail . |
| 2 | Randall for the London Board did not fail to point out the contrast between this and his own refusal of central funds for standardisation ( for which there was in fact a far sounder economic case ) . |
| 3 | Donald 's father , the bodach [ old man ] as he was affectionately called , was most particular about this and his own banks were models of efficiency . |
| 4 | But three of the supermarkets involved insist that their hygiene standards are high and their own tests found no evidence of bacteria . |
| 5 | Normally senior staff have become separated from this but their own experience in the ranks ( if they had any ) leaves them fully aware of the emotional dynamics between landing staff and prisoners . |
| 6 | Our task as editors of this book is to make these social contexts explicit and our own intentions to contribute to a critical discussion of the inner city issue , which challenges the meanings of the powerful , as open as possible . |
| 7 | Mrs Noble , he said , thought him completely immoral and his own parents were chary of allowing Helen to visit him in his study bedroom at Shelgate Road as she used to do , although , he informed Harry , ‘ Mother knows Helen so well and likes her so much . ’ |
| 8 | Appearances were deceptive and her own mother looked handsome and smart and had what people called a very sweet expression . |
| 9 | The sun shone over everything , sparkling on the water , and what with that and her own tears it seemed to Ruth that the sea was scattered with diamonds . |
| 10 | This technique is only used when a person is dangerously ill and his own blood would not have time to develop the antibodies . |
| 11 | The prints were about my own size , 6½ and my own guess for what it is worth , since , as a cadet I did own a pair of hob-nails , is that my own almost religious love of country railways had revealed a kind of secular stigmatic effect . |
| 12 | Theodora recounted to Laura the phone call she had had from Gilbert Racy and her own finding of the wedding ring in the Dersingham chapel of St Benet Oldfield . |
| 13 | Henry III was indeed morally and financially committed to support the policies of Pope Innocent IV and his own brother , Richard of Cornwall , towards Sicily . |
| 14 | In exasperation the Army purged Parliament of all but their own supporters , and caused its Rump to set up a court to try the King for treason against the people of England . |
| 15 | The Red Army units had their own dynamic and their own imperative — to reach Kaledin as swiftly as possible , regardless of peasant opinion . |
| 16 | She was frantic to know more but her own ambulance was involved in an accident and she could do nothing until the end of her duty to learn whether or not Chris was involved . |
| 17 | I believe Seton was responsible but your own Benstede can answer for that , he and Seton seemed close friends . |
| 18 | A soldier of mixed Visigothic and Suevic extraction , he came to power under Avitus , was responsible for his fall , and was effectively involved in the appointment of all the western emperors to hold office between 457 and his own death in 472 . |
| 19 | Then he will go on to tell you about hypnotherapy in general and his own way of working in particular . |
| 20 | — For me — who at the age of 14 & a half , was turned out into the world , literally without a farthing — & with nought to look to for a living but his own exertions , you may easily suppose this a necessary prejudice — & indeed — the tardy paying of many of my subscribers — renders it but too difficult to procure food — & pay for publishing , at once . |
| 21 | He 'd changed the group 's name to the Condemned and his own name to Charlie Hero . |
| 22 | Dana was twenty-two and her own mistress , but this sounded serious . |
| 23 | Karsten foresees a mass culling of products in the next six months and a polarisation into four big brands : Guinness ' alcohol-free lager Kaliber , Bass ' low-alcohol market leader Tennents LA , Whitbread 's White Label low-alcohol bitter and his own Clausthaler as the ‘ premium imported ’ brand . |