Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [pos pn] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | The site code ( first digit of the organisation code ) is , in fact , part of the security of the system and determines whether or not an operator can access this record because each operator can only look at his/her own site 's records unless designated otherwise . |
| 2 | You have only to look at your own publication of June 1991 to find racist comments related to the attractiveness of watersports to black people from the Chairman of the Transvaal Canoe Union . |
| 3 | If we know what to do we can all look at our own houses and decide how we can alter them in not too expensive ways to make it a bit harder for the criminal . |
| 4 | It provides them with the chance to be ‘ centre stage ’ and thus profoundly influence the delivery of care to mentally disordered people , and voluntary organizations have the additional advantage that they need only expand at their own pace , developing those areas which they know have the greatest need . |
| 5 | I shouted goodbye and soon followed at my own pace , leaving the sacred hitching post of the sun in the custody of two girls , a man lying on his back in the grass , the gaseosa-selling woman and a tethered goat . |
| 6 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 7 | It must have been a proud moment for William Lee , particularly as " Monarch " and " Renown " were both built at his own yard . |
| 8 | Wimbledon from the premiership were running out to do battle and they were very nearly beaten at their own game … |
| 9 | She spread a towel out on the sand and sat down but , disappointed and now frightened at her own temerity , Liza began to panic , scarcely noticing Celia when she came staggering towards her , dragging slimy bits of seaweed or producing pebbles and shells in her small fat hand . |
| 10 | We must constantly compare the copy with the reality shown to us by experienced paddlers and not simply look hard at a wide selection of paddlers and not simply look at our own friends and colleagues who may have been influenced by the same paddle strokes that we are studying ourselves . |
| 11 | She sat down before the dressing-table , automatically picking up a hairbrush , but the sight of her own reflection in the mirror distracted her , and for long moments she simply stared at her own face , as if seeing it through the eyes of a stranger . |
| 12 | Then look at your own characteristics , starting with the basics of height and weight . |
| 13 | The mercenary looked them up and down once again , saw the almost joyful light in Isay 's eyes , and then glanced at his own men behind him . |
| 14 | The Burscough boss believes he can put his finger on why his side can consistently beat opposition from higher leagues , as they have done time after time in the past two years , yet struggle at their own level . |