Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me . |
| 2 | With amazement and with pleasure she hears her own voice saying No . |
| 3 | In effect we defined our own ‘ real work ’ and those activities we felt should have credence were given priority , so the role we pursued simply evolved . |
| 4 | As a ghetto they create their own lifestyles and moral values and often express theologies that are anti-Christian as well as anti-human — pelagian , Arminian and gnostic . |
| 5 | This courage was to later re-emerge when , as an adviser , he fought to bring about educational change and improved resources , or , when against opposition he backed his own judgement at an appointment interview , or the courage to back a teacher in difficulty from whom others had withdrawn support . |
| 6 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 7 | As a parent you know your own child best . |
| 8 | If we serve bad-for-you foods at home we affect our own hearts , certainly , but worse still , we are serving the wrong food to our families . |
| 9 | At the point when abolitionists turned to making the emancipation issue a mass campaign they published their own news-sheet , the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter ( 1825–30 ) , followed by the Anti-Slavery Reporter ( 1830–3 ) and thereafter the mark of an antislavery organisation with claims to national standing was a paper of this kind . |
| 10 | This is why the idea of the ‘ educational toy ’ is so fraught with difficulty : the trick is never to let on that it is supposed to be educational , in case you transmit your own anxieties . |
| 11 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |
| 12 | From this basis you produce your own bright ideas . |
| 13 | Just at the moment she had her own anxieties without being expected to worry about other people 's . |
| 14 | From me you take the love of home to put it in whatever place you make your own . |
| 15 | In its place we hoisted our own flag . |
| 16 | What was happening in Europe whilst this was happening cos that 's after the war they had their own development and they developed a different type of machine called a flat machine . |
| 17 | So And then of course we had our own thrashing mill and we did our own thrashing but it was great fun down the glen when they got the thrashing mill in . |
| 18 | It was terrible , I 'd always been independent , or when I was n't for a while I got my own social security money . |
| 19 | One day I saw my own face in the water of the river . |
| 20 | One day I saw my own face in the water of the river . |
| 21 | Later that day she recalled her own words and reflected wryly that the happy day would never arrive for her . |
| 22 | Moreover , as interpreters of animal behaviour we have our own convenience to consider ; to dissolve species ( and human societies too , as in classical economics ) into uniformly egoistic atoms offers much the best prospect of finding simple laws to apply to them . |
| 23 | The Australian Aborigines make a clear distinction between the works of art they consider their own and those they claim go back to the time of their creation , popularly referred to as the Dreamtime in all literature about Aborigines . |
| 24 | With a funny crooked smile he undid his own buttons , then gently pressed her face against his bared chest , his palms warm and hard against her head . |
| 25 | Far from calling himself a god he admits his own inadequacies — he can not rebuild the dome , he can not claim to have fed on honey-dew and drunk the Milk of paradise . |
| 26 | I mean it says in there about feeding them feeding with feeding th a dog you use your own common sense . |
| 27 | Mr Major and his Secretary of State Ian Lang mounted a robust defence of the Union , deliberately challenging the opposition parties on ground they consider their own . |
| 28 | As a manager he remains his own greatest fan and although his playing days are over , he was probably the most creative player on Rangers ' books : a genius in search of a mirror . |
| 29 | So surely if the government er , have , ca n't have the money they cut their own throat ? |
| 30 | Using a similar approach I categorised my own activities as illustrated in Table 1 . |