Example sentences of "[pers pn] at [pos pn] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may be no stranger to our Tattoo and indeed this information may come to you at your own request . |
| 2 | If he sends a note by hand addressed to you at your own office , would that do ? " |
| 3 | Even if he managed to get to a horse , he had a nasty suspicion that it would follow him at its own pace . |
| 4 | He had always said she was too young to be involved but had taken her with him at her own insistence . |
| 5 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Nothing in subsection ( 1 ) above shall prohibit or restrict : ( a ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor in any premises at any time within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours ; ( b ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours and was not supplied or taken away in an open vessel ; ( c ) the sale or supply to , or consumption by , any person of alcoholic liquor in any premises where he is residing ; ( d ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises by a person residing there ; ( e ) the supply of alcoholic liquor , in any premises , for consumption on those premises , to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by , and at the expense of , that person , or the consumption by such friends of alcoholic liquor so supplied to them ; the ordering of alcoholic liquor to be consumed off the premises or the despatch by the vendor of liquor so ordered ; ( g ) the supply of alcoholic liquor for consumption on licensed premises to any private friends of the holder of the licence bona fide entertained by him at his own expense , or the consumption of alcoholic liquor by persons so supplied ; ( h ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor at a meal by any person at any time within half an hour after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if the liquor was supplied during the permitted hours and served at the same time as the meal and for consumption at the meal ; ( i ) the sale of alcoholic liquor to a trader for the purposes of his trade , or to a registered club for the purposes of the club ; or ( j ) the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to any canteen in which the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor is carried on under the authority of the Secretary of State or to any authorised mess of members of Her Majesty 's naval , military or air forces . |
| 7 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 8 | CUSTOMERS who spent four hours haggling with a double glazing salesman may sue after beating him at his own game . |
| 9 | Decided to play him at his own game . |
| 10 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |
| 11 | Play him at his own game , a small voice whispered . |
| 12 | When faced with that choice this summer , I chose to encourage people to continue to develop computerisation in primary health care rather than simply to reward directly those who did something very valuable — there is no doubt about that , or about the fact that they did it at their own risk — some years ago . |
| 13 | And we have the drive involved to beat it at its own game . |
| 14 | She has taken on the sophisticated royal machine and beaten it at its own game . |
| 15 | Majorca has it all , and with Club 18–30 you can see most of it at your own pace . |
| 16 | It is possible to make a single , and sell it at your own gigs , for quite a small sum of money ( see Chapter 13 , ‘ Doing it the Right Way ’ by Horace Trubridge ) . |
| 17 | Strangely , it was a job that satisfied him , for he did it at his own pace and in his own way , and provided he did it well , which he did , then there was nobody to disturb him . |
| 18 | If anybody wants to employ them , they should know before , and then employ them at their own risk . |
| 19 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 20 | But they ca n't keep us down forever 'cause we 're going to show whites that we 're better than them at their own game . |
| 21 | Unless everyone knows their rules , they ca n't play them at their own game , and there can be no equality of opportunity . |
| 22 | The widely read and influential book of the French politician and columnist , ServanSchreiber , translated as The Amer–can Challenge ( 1968 ) , summed up these fears ahout the loss of economic independence , and recommended that European industry and commerce should learn from the methods of the Americans and try to beat them at their own game . |
| 23 | really got to play them at their own game really . |
| 24 | The A&R people will listen to them at their own convenience , which may be at midnight after a gig or on a flight across the Atlantic . |
| 25 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |
| 26 | I met a few of them at my own destination , Cushendall , where the Co Antrim fleadh was in full swing , amid glorious sunshine . |
| 27 | Do n't worry if you ca n't do it if you ca n't any of these any of these exercises that I give you by the way it 's not like homework it 's just for you to play with them to get the do them at your own pace . |
| 28 | It is called benefit and and the well being of those kids about there , that we 're educating them at our own school , that they can have jobs and work , and if this is going , my fear is , okay we can live within this , s as you say , it may that it 's just bad settlement for one year . |