Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case they were quite clear where their own priorities lay : |
| 2 | Of course when we think and talk about computers , we generally have in mind something much more formal and more scientific than our own hands . |
| 3 | Some things , then , were more reliable than his own twin likenesses in the school photograph . |
| 4 | However , out work carries immense potential , even more far-reaching than our own lives . |
| 5 | Alice thought it would be easier to phone someone like that than her own mother if you had done what she had done , but she could be wrong there . |
| 6 | An ancient language of the spirit more advanced than our own scientists ? ? ? ! ! ! |
| 7 | Lisa slept like a stone in the big double bed — far comfier than her own bed at home — and awoke to find Emily already up and dressed , pulling on her green rubber wellies . |
| 8 | Furthermore , by broadening his own identity from leader of the London dissidents to leader of the whole French Resistance , internal as well as external , he remained , in a sense , bigger than his own organization . |
| 9 | WHAT COULD be more important or intriguing than our own origins ? |
| 10 | It would be sad if our own seats of learning were behind-hand in this confusion . |
| 11 | As we shall see , this was a unity they found impossible when their own country went to war with the Boers in the following year . |
| 12 | Val was more indignant than Roland about this event , and her indignation upset him as much as his own failure , for he liked Fergus and wanted to be able to go on liking him . |
| 13 | It was Elizabeth 's courage and devotion that kept him alive until his own courage could take over . |
| 14 | Calder 's face was turning an incredible shade of pink — but it could not be any pinker than her own face ! |
| 15 | None the less , a number of children with severe learning difficulties are integrated into mainstream schools in groups younger than their own age . |
| 16 | It is hard to find a more pitiful sight than a clownfish desperately trying to associate with a shrunken unhealthy anemone a little larger than its own size . |
| 17 | The green imperial pigeon , uniquely among birds , can unhitch its lower beak and expand its mouth not only vertically but horizontally and swallow a nutmeg that is slightly larger than its own head . |
| 18 | Take all violence out of television drama and you disconnect it from reality , leaving it unable to portray anything deeper than its own bonds . |
| 19 | It is a suitable environment for the great parfumier who creates perfumes as complex and sophisticated as his own experience . |
| 20 | Rachel sat there , staring after them , her face white as her own taxi pulled away . |
| 21 | ( And do you know , they are right , it is as comfortable as your own skin ! ) |
| 22 | She warned fellow women workers that it was useless to address workingmen with ‘ plain commonplaces ’ ; what was needed was vivid and dramatic language : ‘ the men want strong meat , thoughts as racy as their own expressions ; they reject sweet pap fit for children . ’ |
| 23 | Eden himself became more emotional , first as he waited for Churchill to stop teasing and bow out of Number 10 Downing Street , and later as his own premiership became increasingly plagued with problems at home and abroad . |
| 24 | He often caught himself liking her better than his own girl-friend . |
| 25 | Continued financial pressure on the NHS has led many authorities to reduce their long stay provision or to buy places within the private sector , which are often cheaper than their own beds . |
| 26 | As Mrs Shand Kydd spent most of the year in Scotland it was as good as her own place . |
| 27 | Bunny was riding a smaller Younger animal , as black as her own hair , and one who evidently found the scent of the morning too exhilarating . |
| 28 | From the pocket of her noisy plastic mac she produced a key as long as her own forearm , its turning piece in the shape of a Latin cross . |
| 29 | He did n't care how he got his own way as long as his own way was what he got . |
| 30 | He thinks it is itself something beautiful that sort of swims down into our world and is incarnated in particular objects , and then he wonders about that because his own way of forming universals means that he 'd have to do it all again and again and again in an infinite regress , so he has a problem , basically , about calling beauty itself beautiful . |