Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And even if no fingerprints could be found on it , even if several of the tourists had already discarded or misplaced their own sheets , there would not be too many Americans , surely , who regularly wrote their sevens with a continental bar across the downstroke . |
2 | As company size and the internalisation of industrial relations activity have increased many companies have acquired or strengthened their own specialist personnel management function … thus facilitating the pursuit of more distinctive , company-specific employment policies . |
3 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
4 | Those who argue that the modern nuclear or conjugal based family is a ‘ relatively isolated ’ unit do not deny that individual family members may maintain strong relationships with members of the families in which they were brought up ( their families of origin ) even after they have married and formed their own families ( their families of procreation ) . |
5 | Perhaps the most remarkable of all , the Norfolk Broads , which are actually nothing more than the flooded workings of a huge medieval peat extraction industry , have recently been raised to the status of an Environmentally Sensitive Area and given their own Planning Authority . |
6 | Their father had always indulged her every whim , and she was so pretty that all her life she had been admired and given her own way . |
7 | I think we all found this address very moving , especially Don MacIntyre , who had flown seven sorties as second pilot with F/L Poole 's crew before he himself was made a captain and given his own crew . |
8 | And given his own class position , as an émigré from the upper middle-class , a class serviced by the domestic labour of the working class , it is telling that he understands the contribution of coal to his class comfort , but does n't discuss the contribution of that other " service " , domestic service . |
9 | He was shown unpublished essays and given his own room to work in . |
10 | The chapters that follow seek to outline the ways in which I have pursued and developed my own management skills , and the lessons that I have learnt on the way . |
11 | It has lengthened and shortened its own life . |
12 | As experience grew this was followed in selected cases with workshops at which key managers and staff discussed the findings and prepared their own action plans . |
13 | Erm Mr Donson was quite right that in the absence of erm structure plan policies er the districts have moved forward and prepared their own countryside protection policies er and these have been effective to a a greater or lesser degree . |
14 | She did not expect to see much of Liz and Alix , who had married and made their own lives after another pattern . |
15 | Month 1 Bert put in £9,000 of his own money and transferred his own car into the name of the business . |
16 | No wonder the girl had stared at her and drawn her own conclusions . |
17 | So she had smiled and squashed her own reservations . |
18 | You 've sought and found your own solutions to problems . |
19 | They had advised her to have the baby adopted , told her she 'd not be able to earn a living for them both , but she 'd been willful and gone her own way . |
20 | It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed . |
21 | It voted overwhelmingly for continued membership of the USSR in the March 1991 referendum , and elected its own president . |
22 | Amongst professional organisations the ACA has recently produced contracts and the FAS ( Faculty of Architects and Surveyors ) has revised and extended its own range . |