Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cook eventually created his own fleet of floating palaces to carry the ‘ Cookii ’ down the Nile . |
| 2 | By thinking carefully about every detail , Geoff successfully created his own look . |
| 3 | Indeed , HyperCard has created such interest that IBM swiftly produced their own HyperCard lookalike which they call LinkWay . |
| 4 | The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired . |
| 5 | The very fact that he felt impelled to do so told its own story . |
| 6 | And who has not zipped past one of the BSM Mini Metros and fondly recalled their own experience of chronic problems with clutch control , seven point turns and botched emergency stops ? |
| 7 | It was the greatness of the ancient empire to which the Shah was attracted and with which he constantly compared his own achievements and ambitions . |
| 8 | At the Council of Arminium forty-five years later , there were four British bishops , one of whom apparently paid his own way — which would seem to indicate some degree of prosperity . |
| 9 | Throughout he fiercely defended his own actions and was at pains to explain why he did not quit as many had said he should immediately after Black Wednesday . |
| 10 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 11 | Then came the mythic sixties when young people suddenly acquired their own cash and really got into looking different from old(er) people and when social class momentarily took a back seat . |
| 12 | Not only did my own shape improve dramatically but so did that of my ladies . |
| 13 | The discussions at the end of each lecture were animated and sometimes a little heated , for Hindu students , Muslims and Buddhists were a little critical at having to attend any Christian lecture and were very emphatic that they much preferred their own religion to that of Christianity . |
| 14 | If the aristocracy alone could heal the rift between the two nations , the rich and the poor , into which England had divided , they must , as a first step , quite literally put their own houses in order . |
| 15 | The Colonel apparently had his own rules about such things . |
| 16 | He obviously had his own reasons for wanting you to believe he owned Seawitch . |
| 17 | The problem was , however , that the ink often obscured the watermark as well as large sections of the paper which could show up the idiosyncrasies of the particular mould used ( the point being that the hundreds of paper mills in existence at the time not only had their own watermarks but that each particular paper mould had its own variations in the structure of its wires ) . |
| 18 | The fact that it was assumed to do so had its own importance . |
| 19 | This required the break-up of the multinational empires of East and Central Europe which not only controlled their own peoples but intervened throughout Europe to protect the ancien régime . |
| 20 | Athelstan was about to snarl a further retort when the coroner 's words suddenly quickened his own memories . |
| 21 | The advantages of an exchange rather than a sale , says Mr Nunn ( who set up the business after he successfully swapped his own home ) , are : no chain of buyers and sellers to fall through , stamp duty is payable only on any difference in price between the two properties , and agents ' fees are less . |
| 22 | We shall not be satisfied with a theory which does less than justice to the biblical view of the nature of man , but at the same time we need to be sure that we really have grasped the biblical view , and not just read our own ideas into it . |
| 23 | The threat of Aids was once again highlighted in the deaths of two critically acclaimed actors and Britain 's last hangman finally met his own end . |
| 24 | already owned their own homes and another 34 per cent . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that the minister responsible at the time for civil aviation had already ordered a public inquiry into its cause , the coroner called for evidence into every technical aspect of the accident , rejecting the assistance and advice of the AIB inspectors concerned , and finally made his own finding as to the cause of the crash . |
| 26 | It then goes on to describe how he joined the Roux brothers in London and finally opened his own restaurant in Chelsea . |
| 27 | He called meetings to solicit their views and thus began his own experiments with what was effectively community architecture . |
| 28 | It soon established its own organization and meeting houses which were hardly distinguishable from chapels . |
| 29 | The women who normally overestimated their own size by up to 15 per cent under-estimated the models ' sizes by 25 per cent . |
| 30 | Appreciating that it was her notoriety , as the ex-mistress of the Prince of Wales , that was attracting audiences , Lillie soon founded her own company . |