Example sentences of "[adj] of [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The links between politics and patronage can not have been beneficial to the efficiency of the customs service as a revenue-collecting agency , for all too often strong political interests could secure an important post for a man with little or no experience who was placed over the head of men far better qualified than himself , and presumably resentful of their own failure to secure advancement . |
| 2 | In general young children need to feel important ; they are proud of their own achievements and proud and possessive of their own property . |
| 3 | Mikhail Gorbachev : ‘ growing more and more fond of his own voice . |
| 4 | ‘ Besides , ’ he continued , ‘ when you first burst into my life I was disillusioned , bruised , doubtful of my own judgement where women were concerned . |
| 5 | I have grown up to be distrustful of men , doubtful of my own goodness , extremely resentful and explosively angry . |
| 6 | They represent the classic disproof of their own claims for the detached and context-free qualities of writing . |
| 7 | It presupposes that it is possible , in modern circumstances , using modern tools and resources , to find a way whereby men and women can become more fully integrated into their social environment and find in it something deeply expressive of their own personality and aspirations . |
| 8 | afraid of its own temper . |
| 9 | Some are afraid of their own tears and the abyss that would open in their lives if they once allowed themselves to make contact with their own pain . |
| 10 | With this knowledge inside them , people do not have to be afraid of their own anger , nor their own assertiveness . |
| 11 | Agnes 's voice was so low that it was hardly audible to herself ; it was as if her thoughts had escaped and were afraid of their own sound . |
| 12 | There is a paradox that we are often afraid of our own anger . |
| 13 | The Christian attitude towards pain had always tended to be stoical ; as Jeremy Taylor bluntly put it : ‘ He that is afraid of pain is afraid of his own nature . ’ |
| 14 | To keep taxes low , leaving people as much as possible of their own money to spend . |
| 15 | Conservatives believe that people should be left with as much as possible of their own money to spend in their own interests , in the clear belief that they will spend it better in their interests than any Government will do for them . |
| 16 | ‘ Cambridge University : incurious of its own history … envious of Oxford 's Library … |
| 17 | At the wicket he is a Roman general , unquestioning of his own ability to defeat the barbarians ; yet because the pride and haughtiness are justified by having repeatedly proved himself to be the best , one can not resent them , especially since he usually leaves them on the field of combat . |
| 18 | But the team , with their sirens and blue lights on full blast , raced on unaware of their own emergency . |
| 19 | ‘ What a beautiful young woman , ’ the young man thought , and , unaware of their own narcissism , they sat on either side of the pinewood table for all the world as if they really were twins , recently separated and reuniting in astonishment . |
| 20 | For the adherents of a great tradition are largely unaware of their own premises , which lie deeply embedded in the unconscious foundations of practice " ( Polanyi 1964 : 76 ) . |
| 21 | But then many humans are largely unaware of their own mind , let alone that of others . |
| 22 | She was nine , blonde as a daisy , with big , blue eyes , unaware of her own prettiness . |
| 23 | He thus grows up , largely unaware of his own emotions and thought processes . |
| 24 | Nowadays he is a sanctimonious old man seemingly unaware of his own involvement in the problems of his family . |
| 25 | From her experience of him he certainly was n't unaware of his own competence ! |
| 26 | In order to make the procedure ‘ fair ’ , you are imagined to : know little except the most general facts about human society ; be ignorant of your own eventual position and role in society ; be unaware of your own endowments ; be ignorant of where your own best interests will in fact lie , and be ignorant also of the state of development of the society in which you will find yourself . |
| 27 | In the case of a thief , he will find he has been relieved of his own purse when he finally manages to jettison his passenger . |
| 28 | He then spent several frustrating years as a military attache in Brazil , a move rumoured to have been spearheaded by his superiors fearful of their own positions , before returning to Moscow as head of the Surveillance Unit . |
| 29 | Then she stepped away from him , fearful of her own weakness and afraid that if he kissed her she would dissolve into a quivering jelly that would melt from sheer ecstasy . |
| 30 | ( 4 ) Certain consequences will ensue if the managers choose to leave early of their own volition . |