Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , a large and growing majority of occupiers owned their own home . |
| 2 | An anonymous letter from an opponent of the regime in Franconia , condemning the ‘ puppet show ’ of the Reichstag and claiming ninety per cent of Germans shared his own desire , that Hitler ‘ disappear from the face of the earth as fast as possible ’ , was an absurd exaggeration . |
| 3 | His words goaded her own temper to life . |
| 4 | Under Imperial rule , a number of emperors added their own forum bearing their name ; one forum was not large enough for the needs of the whole city . |
| 5 | The masks eyes hid my own eye 's movement , just as a filter over the mouth would alter my voice when I spoke , in case anyone was using an audio pick-up with instant voice-print comparison . |
| 6 | On the day of the launch of The Campaign For Unbleached Paper , the Association of Sanitary Protection Manufacturers sent their own press release in response to the World in Action expose by courier bike — to all the women 's magazines and papers . |
| 7 | Popular opinion among those British ‘ boy labour ’ reformers who considered the curriculum seems to have favoured basing the organization of the classes on the Munich model in which trades either had their own schools , or groups of trades had their own curriculum . |
| 8 | The parties had their own money collectors and the industrialists , willingly or stoically , paid up knowing there was no option . |
| 9 | Both parties had their own organisations to co-ordinate the activities of their followers and ensure party unity . |
| 10 | Manufacturers wrote their own copy and it appears very naive now . |
| 11 | Both mansio and baths had their own water supply . |
| 12 | By the 1870s several public schools had their own cadet or rifle corps , though within the schools it was not until the Boer War that they achieved real popularity . |
| 13 | A major subject of discussion within GATT in 1989 was the application of the so-called " Super-301 " procedure under the US 1988 Trade Act , providing for retaliatory unilateral sanctions against countries which themselves applied allegedly unfair trade practices against US goods and services , unless those countries modified their own practices within a given period of time . |
| 14 | All the parents ignored their own youngsters and yelled for Kelly . |
| 15 | A COMPREHENSIVE school in Essex is poised to opt out of local authority control after parents overturned their own decision . |
| 16 | The American railroad companies boasted their own King Ludwigs and some of their creations succeeded in being both fantastical and architecturally exciting . |
| 17 | It was easy enough to rationalise , to calmly explain to herself why he had done that , but her senses went their own way , remembering not the insult but the strength of his arms , the tang of his skin , the instinctive feeling that his lips had wanted to soften and soothe her . |
| 18 | Claudia smiled wryly ; her parents ' marriage had been peaceful , mainly because both parents went their own way , each , figuratively , taking one child with them . |
| 19 | Early German Maxims had their own gun carriages , while the British broke their guns into two loads — barrel and tripod — carried either by mule or the men themselves . |
| 20 | The tight-knit mining communities had their own traditions and tales , and in Ayrshire one miner 's name was a legend . |
| 21 | Each of these communities had its own head , who assumed most of the duties and rights of the head of an orthodox and separate school . |
| 22 | Many of these larger , amalgamated companies had their own shops ( like North Road in Darlington ) , so Stephenson 's had , more than ever , to cast their eyes overseas . |
| 23 | The crews supplied their own oranges . |
| 24 | Dozens of other groups organized their own rallies and petitions and sponsored walks . |
| 25 | In other cases , individual workers made their own judgements about whether a person was likely to benefit from the care programme approach . |
| 26 | For a long time there were few specialized tradesmen : most farm workers made their own tools and carried out their own running repairs , until the spread of cheaply manufactured iron began to displace wood , and more sophisticated craftsmanship was called for . |
| 27 | For days Grom lay moaning and groaning as at first the Troll 's regenerative abilities outpaced his own ability to digest it and then his stomach gradually gained ground . |
| 28 | Purity workers developed their own re-reading of the Darwinist debate , though they placed less stress on integrating the two systems and more on the subordination of science to the dictates of morality . |
| 29 | As her last teaching term ended Classes arranged their own forms of appreciation , complete with gifts and Marlow Class ( the first one in the Area ) laid on a surprise part in the 400–year old cottage of their Class Secretary . |
| 30 | Certain governments established their own papers and then saw to it that any opposition papers were starved of the advertising they needed in order to stay in business . |