Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] own [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the Prime Minister aware that 500,000 cashmere jerseys are worth £75 million to textile communities such as my own in the central borders in Scotland ? |
| 2 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 3 | If he was n't so attractive himself , ’ she continued , echoing some old thoughts of my own on the subject , ‘ who 'd give a damn ? |
| 4 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 5 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 6 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
| 7 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 8 | This little band of Medau enthusiasts decided on a little fund-raising of their own for the team and on 18 May held a sponsored ball bounce . |
| 9 | If there is n't a collection though , an official one , they 'll have one of their own for the |
| 10 | Similarly a grant is paid to staff who move from a rented unfurnished house or flat to a similar property at the new base or who buy a house of their own at the new location . |
| 11 | But many Special Hospital patients could move straight into independent living in hostels or flats of their own with the right professional support from local services . |
| 12 | Retail banks hold deposits of their own with the Bank . |
| 13 | The republics are to go ahead with economic-reform plans of their own on the basis of the now changing programme . |
| 14 | The minimalist interpretation maintains that they are willing to obey if they have no judgment of their own on the merits of performing the required action . |
| 15 | Hermes Trismegistus , Zoroaster and his Magi , and to a lesser degree Moses and Abraham became respected figures with doctrines of their own on the operations of nature . |
| 16 | As in the novel , the figures carved above the fireplace , the portraits on the wall , assume a macabre life of their own as the setting sun streams in through the windows . |
| 17 | The Leith and Berwick Shipping Company established their headquarters at Leith in 1791 and were so successful that in 1802 , the merchants of Leith organised a direct service of their own under the name of the Edinburgh and Leith Shipping Company . |
| 18 | Some later biographies survive of the Pythagoreans who settled in Italy , and these describe the oligarchic governments and even federations of cities which they established , but the details can not be trusted : ‘ saint literature ’ is notoriously fanciful , and these are hellenistic treatises whose authors had ideas of their own about the theory of kingship ; these have probably contaminated the biographical material beyond salvage . |
| 19 | How many had ideas of their own during the session' ? |
| 20 | There were a lot of plants and the cats felt they were in a jungle of their own in the hall . |
| 21 | They have an independence of their own in the experience of human beings . |
| 22 | Tiberius Minnows are currently supporting The 4 Of Us on their Irish tour , and will be doing two shows of their own in the Baggot on November 8th and 15th . |
| 23 | The magnificence of crinoline and the billowing hoop-skirt were certainly exciting an interest of their own in the mid-1850s , as something symptomatic of the extravagant optimism of the period . |
| 24 | In Herefordshire , education , health , social services and voluntary groups are working together on a Lifestyles Project which enables students leaving college to have a life of their own within the community . |
| 25 | In addition to the national objectives such as Health of the Nation , Patient 's Charter and Caring for People , NEHA has identified specific targets of its own for the coming year . |
| 26 | Questions are frequently divided into two or more parts , and this division raises difficulties of its own for the inexpert candidate . |
| 27 | Its Studio Theatre has a life of its own at the forefront of creative theatre . |
| 28 | The Employment Research Centre has no view of its own on the root causes of unemployment but it is convinced that the problem of unemployment can be solved . |
| 29 | In December , when a meeting between Mr Baker and Mr Hussein still looked possible , the European Community decided against starting talks of its own with the Iraqi leadership . |
| 30 | That the to preceding the infinitive should bring a meaning of its own into the context is no surprise for a semantically oriented approach to language , since from this point of view the very raison d'être of a linguistic sign is to express meaning . |