Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her thin lip curled in a rare smile — one might say she had been pursuing her own studies . |
| 2 | Pictured with him is the group 's chairman , Tony Edwards one of 22 mainly unemployed people who are building their own homes during the project . |
| 3 | These dimensions have been tested ergonomically , and are designed to fit in with standard appliances , so they provide a useful guide if you are building your own units instead of buying ready-made . |
| 4 | ‘ We are building our own garden , thanks to a grant from the Merseyside Environmental Trust . |
| 5 | You will certainly need to experiment with exposure periods if you are coating your own boards with a UV sensitive aerosol lacquer . |
| 6 | Yeah , he would , I suppose he 's been eating his own toes all day |
| 7 | But now they are defying their own interests too . |
| 8 | We can infer from this that when the authors concerned start out to describe the institutions of an alien exotic social system they are using their own society as a model of normality . |
| 9 | I mean my , one of my friend 's sons , he was a computer man , he was working on his own but he 's in his I should think he 's getting on for about forty six and he was doing freelance but this recession the people who er the firms who were employing him are using their own staff and they 're not calling on him now and er he 's not done any computing for twelve months . |
| 10 | With this approach , the language experience approach , the learners ’ interest is held because they are using their own words and telling their own story . |
| 11 | If you are using your own office rather than an interview room , arrange for telephone calls to be intercepted and make sure you are not disturbed or distracted while interviewing . |
| 12 | The children are producing their own spelling dictionary which is freely available to the whole class . |
| 13 | And although overseas sales are steadily growing , many countries , such as the US , Germany , Italy , and the UK , are producing their own robots , and using them innovatively in a variety of non-manufacturing applications . |
| 14 | The HDZ government of Croatia had been building its own army : it had 35,000 police units of which 25,000 were in the reserves and 10,000 belong to special units . |
| 15 | I am enjoying my own attention ; a carpenter in a large mustard sweater , and a sweet-faced young lad with glasses . |
| 16 | Individualists who deny that these claims explain anything at all are , in effect , simply reasserting the hegemony of the interest from which individualism draws its life , while holists are pursuing their own concern with the constraining power of society . |
| 17 | Mr Coulter said : ‘ It is becoming clear that building societies are pursuing their own interests by rescheduling loans or entering into shared ownership agreements , rather than biting the bullet of low interest loans to housing associations . ’ |
| 18 | It 's a story that 's been told thousands of times since Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol , and now a group of disabled students from Herefordshire Technical college 's assisted learning unit are staging their own version . |
| 19 | Formed from the ashes of various small-time Amsterdam bands , BS had been minding their own business playing local gigs until a friend sent a demo to Gerard Cosloy at Matador Records in America — first home of Teenage Fanclub and currently Superchunk . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been minding my own business , ’ Midnight said curtly , putting his hand on Jess 's shoulder . |
| 21 | Er , it is important too , to stress that the Agency is acting as a bridge between the purchasing er , authority , the Social Services Department , and the er , independent sector , and that er , it 's also important that er , too , that er , in many cases , er , the provider 's income er , will , will not just come from Social Services , but it may be that people are purchasing their own care , if , if they 're not eligible for public , public 's er , help through , through funding , and therefore the scheme is much wider than just looking at the purchasing intentions of the , the Social Services Department . |
| 22 | From an enemy I am becoming my own friend . |
| 23 | Demonstrate , in talking about fiction and poetry , that they are developing their own views and can support them by reference to some details in the text , eg when talking about characters and actions in fiction . |
| 24 | Demonstrate in talking and writing about literature that they are developing their own views and can support them when appropriate by reference to the text , eg in making judgements of characters and their actions , or when building upon those characters and events in their own writing . |
| 25 | Amperif , a long-time player in the Unisys Corp storage subsystems business — it has not always enjoyed an easy relationship with Unisys — has been developing its own disk array product under the code-name Viking . |
| 26 | By giving up their lives to protect their nest mates , they are promoting their own genes through their relatives . |
| 27 | For him all vices are forms of mental illness , for vicious action is always a matter of submission to impulses which are seeking their own satisfaction at the expense of the satisfaction of the whole . |
| 28 | And while it is BPX-GOM 's first third-party agreement to remotely operate and produce from a subsea gas well , the Offshore Division has been operating its own satellite gas well , High Island A-587 , since 1991 . |
| 29 | This means any class taken on a voluntary basics , classes paid for by a private concern , ( W.I. T.W.G. sports sections of firms etc. ) , are hiring your own premises and running a class , or are coaching any display team . |
| 30 | So do you think you 're inventing your own tradition , which is a perfectly time honoured and respectable thing to do , or do you think you 're harking back to an old tradition or or what ? |