Example sentences of "[conj] to [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving on to the question of defenders stopping the try by not standing on the goal-line , Law 27(e) is clear about what the offending team must do : ‘ The opposing team must run without delay ( and continue to do so while the kick is being taken and while the ball is being played by the kicker 's team ) to or behind the line parallel to the goal-lines and 10 metres from the mark , or to their own goal-line if nearer to the mark . |
| 2 | Submitting to ‘ Be aware ’ , he attends closely to his situation and to his own reactions , and instead of trying to infer from principles how he ought to respond , discovers how when most aware he does respond , and perhaps surprises himself by an impulse contrary to social convention or to his own self-image . |
| 3 | But they were busy and not paying attention except to their own work . |
| 4 | And although Mr Kohl promises that Germany will eventually amend its constitution and shoulder its proper military responsibilities in the world , he would prefer to sell that to his own people as a pro-European gesture than as a pro-American one . |
| 5 | The mind , examine the way you , that you 've done erm if you sort of apply that to your own house , you can actually cut down the chances of a burglary happening to you . |
| 6 | His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’ |
| 7 | The boy had been in his tutelage now for two and a half years , closer far to him than to his own Lancaster kin . |
| 8 | Northumberland had more use for him ; he was temperamentally closer to this coldly thinking man than to his own son . |
| 9 | As this suggests , the duke recognized a wider responsibility than to his own servants . |
| 10 | As this suggests , the duke recognized a wider responsibility than to his own servants . |
| 11 | Many of these prints have shifted subtly in colour or tonality , in ways more apparent to the lithographer 's camera than to our own eyes . |
| 12 | The General Assembly was a third party both to the League Covenant , which provided the original authority for the Mandate system , and to its own Charter . |
| 13 | A court would have to decide that issue by reference to the intention of the parties , to sound business practice and to its own judgment as to where the risk should lie . |
| 14 | Also many teachers of English succumbed to a kind of vitalism , a muddled belief that children 's acquisition of language skills depends not on craft and knowledge , but upon a living , spontaneous response to their reading and to their own experiences . |
| 15 | But this market was new to them and to their own investors and trustees . |
| 16 | They build on young people 's skills and confidence so they feel that they have something to offer to the world and to their own community . |
| 17 | He could see that I was slowly but surely getting back to my old self , and to my own poetry . |
| 18 | I wanted to get back to myself and to my own work , to all that he had robbed me of — even my own name . |
| 19 | I am grateful both to the Education spokespersons who put a great deal of time in , in order to carry out erm their preparations towards this report and to and to take part in the consultation exercises and to my own colleagues . |
| 20 | Warm acceptance , and a compassionate and kindly approach , should be the marks of all that we give to others — and to our own children too . |
| 21 | He was enlisted into the running team , too , when an excellent runner was unavailable to compete on Saturdays , and to his own surprise did well . |
| 22 | Lyfing of Crediton doubtless owed his advancement largely to the influence of his uncle Brihtwold of Cornwall and to his own services to Cnut during the 1027 pilgrimage to Rome . |
| 23 | Submitting to ‘ Be aware ’ , he attends closely to his situation and to his own reactions , and instead of trying to infer from principles how he ought to respond , discovers how when most aware he does respond , and perhaps surprises himself by an impulse contrary to social convention or to his own self-image . |
| 24 | With the new device Henry could contribute far more to group meetings and to his own learning and development . |
| 25 | Hutcheon 1977 and Wagstaff 1984 ) , in the name of a radically different literary project , wherein the text draws attention not to the outside world , but to its own procedures . |
| 26 | ‘ UK businesses now have a great opportunity in markets both at home and abroad , thanks not just to pound 's depreciation but to their own efficiency gains , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 27 | ‘ You should be ashamed to make advances to any man — but to your own brother-in-law is too much . |
| 28 | This man from Mountain Ash pointed him not only towards the theatre but to his own Olympus of ambition — the University of Oxford of which , in those days , a miner 's son could not even afford to dream . |
| 29 | As to her own life — of that she was n't quite so sure . |
| 30 | In essence Ward J. found that the physical and mental state of Miss T. on the Sunday afternoon and evening were such that , although she was undoubtedly under the influence of her mother , she was capable of reaching and did reach a decision as to her own treatment . |