Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously we have n't gone for wholesale personnel changes , so you 're the hook on which we 're hanging the idea , a new programme manager whose own image is the station 's — young , smart , sophisticated and committed to the music . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , in America , there was Patti Smith , fully fledged cult idol and female rock star whose own heroes were largely male ( Morrison , Richards , Jagger , Rimbaud ) and whose sexuality was ambivalent in her look and in her poems and music . |
| 3 | Government controlled Straits Times newspaper last year ran as an invaluable community service its own toilets of shame campaign listing each day the country 's most offensive loos . |
| 4 | If that is farcical how does the POA rate its own performance ? |
| 5 | Catherine 's opinions about drugs are much firmer than those of another pop star her own age — Aussie actress turned singer Kylie Minogue . |
| 6 | This would stop , say , Sears putting on a Prime Option Visa card its own store account numbers or numbers for other financial services that it offers through its Dean Witter subsidiary . |
| 7 | You may still be able to emphasize the division by decorative changes , to give your dining area its own atmosphere , as you would if you were trying to divide a simple rectangular room . |
| 8 | An anonymous seventeenth-century chorographer remarked : Robert Reyce described High Suffolk as ‘ Parts inclining to the east ’ where pasture ruled , the people ‘ contenting themselves onely with so much tillage as will satisfie their own expences ’ . |
| 9 | 6.5 Similar leases The tenant , if taking premises in a shopping centre under a lease containing intricate service charge provisions , may wish to ensure that all leases of units in the centre mirror its own lease . |
| 10 | ‘ This is what we 'll do , ’ Douglas told Cannutt , and he showed his stunt man his own routine , which Cannutt was obliged to film . |
| 11 | We humans used the bridge , but of course , Sally had to negotiate this dry Derbyshire creek bed her own way . |
| 12 | Using an extra RAM card your own settings can be stored and recalled for future use , or for use with another A2 — possibly one installed in a studio you are visiting . |
| 13 | In the Commons , Opposition leader John Smith provoked Tory shouts of fury when he asked : ‘ Is n't it inappropriate for the inquiry to be set up and asked to report to the very regional health authority whose own actions may be the subject of the inquiry ? |
| 14 | Review with your line manager your own training requirements to meet this challenge . |
| 15 | When she married a Kent farm labourer her own relatives disowned her : ‘ it was n't a very happy thing , you see , that she married into this family … |
| 16 | The tomb is the work of Leone Leoni whose own memorial , his house , stands close to the Duomo ( see page 90 ) . |
| 17 | For instance , a board member whose own firm is on the wrong side of a squeeze should not misuse his board position to try and break the squeeze . |
| 18 | Underbound Army Our own fighting Colonel Joseph |
| 19 | A ruling yesterday by the Accounting Standards Board means any premium or discount when a company repurchases its own debt must be be written off in the same year it is incurred . |
| 20 | Make a Monster is good fun , letting the younger user design their own creations using a mix-and-match technique of arms , heads , legs , eyes etc . |
| 21 | It would be possible for the government of the day utterly to monopolise the time of the House fur its own legislation . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm trying to , ’ Carrie said , so impatiently that she sounded , he thought , more like a cross girl his own age than his mother . |
| 23 | A penguin keeper whose own family has flown the nest has taken on the role of mother to one of her birds . |