Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shower and bath gels , face masks and deodorants bought by women are also favourites , although men are too lazy to shop for their own . |
| 2 | Some of these parents may also wish , through adoption , to protect children against the social order , but they are ‘ real ’ parents in that they are prepared to go beyond their own concerns and hold the child 's interests as their priority . |
| 3 | ‘ The man in the field must be prepared to work on his own and work conscientiously . |
| 4 | Members are free to work on their own chosen subject if they desire . |
| 5 | Members are free to work on their own chosen subject if they desire . |
| 6 | One thing parents ca n't afford — especially our sort of parent — is that the whisper might be put about that they had been willing to toy with their own children 's safety . |
| 7 | The stress , arousal , motor activity and so on inevitably associated with learning themselves result in biochemical and physiological changes in the brain at the same time as the animal is learning , and they are all important and interesting to study in their own right . |
| 8 | Primarily , I greatly respected the culture and customs of the people and , as a western woman , although free to dress in my own cultural fashion , I dressed respectfully for an Islamic country and covered my hair , arms and legs and wore loose fitting clothes , so I felt comfortable drawing and was protected from the heat of the sun . |
| 9 | Where there is no joint action , each member state is entirely free to act on its own . |
| 10 | The aim was to reach students in the Fourth to Sixth Form age group by setting up workshops and visits to the Hayward Gallery , persuading professional photographers to go to as many schools as possible to talk about their own work and the Magnum show , and encouraging ‘ young hopefuls ’ to shoot and print some of their own work . |
| 11 | But it must be the individual 's right to choose of his own free will to follow the darkness or the light within himself . |
| 12 | In this way the diet is easy to adjust to your own requirements . |
| 13 | Moscato Spumante , Frassino £3.99 A sweet white wine from Italy , it was described as having a low local alcohol content which makes it easy to drink on its own and as an aperitif . |
| 14 | Dent Town suffered its gradual loss of status passively and withdrew into its shell , content to look after its own affairs exclusively and be bypassed by a changing world . |
| 15 | Wait near the toilet for any resident who is unsafe to leave on their own and help them back to their room . |
| 16 | What does a course do for students that they would find difficult or impossible to do on their own ? |
| 17 | Impossible to live in his own house as things were . |
| 18 | During 1986 , when several of The Wedding Present 's contemporaries were signed to major deals , they told the press they were quite content to stay on their own label but , in reality , they wanted to sign with a major label too . |
| 19 | After three years it was possible to revert to your own name or to have another false one , thereby preserving the anonymity . |
| 20 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 21 | Yeah , he said we 're not supposed to go on our own ! |
| 22 | Producers are more likely to remain within their own national markets where they are familiar with the rules and standards to which their production facilities are adapted . |
| 23 | on same date because people are like , more likely to go to their own local pantomime are n't they ? |
| 24 | ‘ The credit grantor not only requires confirmation of the existing loan commitments of a business prospect ; he also needs details of previous repayment patterns in order to assess how a commercial borrower is likely to cope with his own repayment structure . ’ |
| 25 | If your mind is on the new member of the family you 're probably less likely to concentrate on your own aches and pains , regardless of whether they are physical or psychological . |
| 26 | Shortly before Gundovald 's death Guntram had recognized Childebert as reaching his majority : he was therefore fit to rule on his own . |
| 27 | After the death of Chilperic and the revolt of Gundovald in 584 , Guntram recognized his nephew as being fit to rule in his own name , but even this did not ensure consistently good relations between the two kings , not least because of differences of opinion over control of certain cities , and because of the ramifications of the Gundovald affair . |
| 28 | A third kind of analysis conceives some sections of the middle class ( technicians , managers , engineers , professional employees in the public service and in private industry ) either as constituting an important part of a ‘ new working class ’ which is likely to participate in its own way in a refashioned socialist movement ( Mallet , 1975 ) , or as forming one element — alongside the old industrial working class — in a new class , which is becoming involved in a new type of struggle , directed against those who control the institutions of economic and political decision making , and who reduce it to a condition , not of misery or oppression , but of restricted and dependent participation in the major public affairs of society ( Touraine , 1971a ) . |
| 29 | Just as they defended the school friends we disapproved of , so they are likely to stick to their own choice of girl or boyfriend . |
| 30 | People are much less likely to vote in their own interests , much less likely to vote in their class interests if other people know how they 're voting . |