Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] own [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was peculiar about my own circumstances I have already tried to describe in the hope of finding and revealing some useful clues . |
| 2 | After my own experiences I wo I would n't advice someone not to go to their G P , but firstly , I would advice them to contact the Eating Disorders Association er , because they are very helpful and they 're more supportive than any G P I 've ever come across . |
| 3 | For a dynamic company which is growing through its own efforts it is important that we should have other and new businesses of a similar nature coming along . |
| 4 | Through their own efforts they have created a happier , healthier environment for their children . |
| 5 | If the field of strategic management is to render the concept of strategic vision suitable for its own purposes it must deal with it in a unique way . |
| 6 | If multi-national companies exist and dividing frontiers against workers for their own games we should organize , cooperate and perhaps even amalgamate to resist the combat , to co to combat common problems and disputes second or third class nation will not service British workers but will undermine the nations . |
| 7 | Occasionally you can say you think they 're being stupid or have they thought about other things but at the end of the day people are answerable erm for their own decisions I feel and , if I have an opportunity I 'll tell them what I think , but er if people are n't wanting your opinion then you ca n't really give it |
| 8 | On the occasions of my own visits I always manage to see something new when I visit Rutland Water : a preening water rail in full view below Lax Hill , four buoyant , saw-billed goosanders showing off their diving skills , short-eared owls roosting at dusk on the fence posts of the Hambleton Peninsula , a pair of displaying great crested grebes presenting mutual gifts of waterweed … |
| 9 | Bibb atoned for his error at the start of the second half , when after Castleford lost the ball in front of their own posts he pounced quickly and beat three tacklers for the third Rovers ' try , Knapper adding his first goal . |
| 10 | I do n't know how many years it went on and then there were a lot of ploughs and boys a lot of their own ploughs I think . |
| 11 | In Lucy 's ultimate rejection of Cecil and realisation of her own feelings she rejects the conventional life society offers her , to live a life of authenticity with George Emerson . |
| 12 | The young corporal , it should perhaps be pointed out , was also a Grant , but indeed with the recommendation of his own officers he was to a great degree responsible for his own advancement to commissioned rank , and this kind of promotion for gallantry was by no means an isolated example , for a considerable number of non-commissioned officers of suitable education , many of them Scots , reached the junior commissioned ranks . |
| 13 | And er , concludes from the observation of his own children I suspect that the vague and very real fears of children , which are quite independent of experience , are inherited effects of real dangers , and abject superstitions during ancient times . |
| 14 | With one last cry she held him impossibly tight , her nails scoring his back , and knew even in her state of mindlessness that Leo had timed himself to her , that even in the grip of his own needs he had thought of her . |
| 15 | In terms of his own objectives it was a diplomatic coup — even if the " independent " element was qualified in practice by the British desire to minimize the costs . |
| 16 | And now we have come up before the beak for a second wigging , because on the application of one of our own citizens we are accused of ‘ degrading treatment or punishment ’ inflicted in the Isle of Man . |
| 17 | There is also the problem that performance testing is highly susceptible to personal distractions and even though the tests and conditions of testing can be standardized , the motivation of those taking them cannot. for example , in some of our own experiments we found that subjects like to accompany each testing session with music . |
| 18 | We can at will like Democritus develop this faculty of laughter , so that when we look at our fellowmen we can smile and even in the labyrinth of our own thoughts we can resort to humour and thus our lives can be less drab . |
| 19 | Yes , but I think the interesting thing in this case is you had a woman who you might went against her own interests I think . |
| 20 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 21 | She 'd been so busy with her own thoughts she 'd forgotten that side of things . |
| 22 | ‘ If she 's seen him with her own eyes she knows which restaurant it is . ’ |
| 23 | When they both protested , seemingly in vain , at having lines cut , they came up with their own solutions they would accept the cuts , but make do with them badly . |
| 24 | With his own hands he cut off the beards of leading courtiers and ordered all noblemen to abandon this ancient symbol of Orthodox manhood . |
| 25 | Otherwise the trainer 's satisfied with his own men he do he gallops Wednesdays and Saturdays . |
| 26 | Er wh when you earn something with your own efforts it , it also helps the money you get earned by somebody else . |
| 27 | When we begin to take the law into our own hands we become little better than those individuals who vandalise our homes and mug old ladies . |
| 28 | In my own turfs we are quarrelling among ourselves with intense energy about whether women can be ordained priests , about who is more Catholic than their neighbour and about a whole host of internal issues , because we apparently have neither the grace nor the guts to face up to the real issues which are the business of the Church in the current world . |
| 29 | So against the narrow focus of the impact of enterprise unions within their own firms we need to consider how far their achievements are filtered down to small firms where formal labour representation is minimal . |
| 30 | Some governments say that in order to keep the rebellious minorities down within their own countries they must have a large military strength . |