Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clarkson 's narrative revealed his own perseverance and commitment until exhaustion and financial difficulty overtook him in 1794 and Hoare fastened upon Clarkson 's continuing ‘ zeal ’ . |
| 2 | Melissa was horrified when the bounder made his own designs clear as she modelled a £700 Prince of Wales check trouser suit in a London park . |
| 3 | The Colonel was not normally one whose nerve or self-confidence could be shaken by a comrade 's torment — he had seen too much and , besides , a soldier in the field made his own luck — but sitting now in the darkness , hardly aware of the familiar sounds of a barracks coming to life , the hollow ring of that dead voice seemed to re-echo in his ears . |
| 4 | In many ways , as the technology and its altering social relations became more general , new forms and new areas of experience made their own way into print . |
| 5 | Each Board devised its own policy , sometimes offering developers incentives like free connection of a new housing estate if they installed electric cooking or water heating or an agreed minimum of sockets . |
| 6 | The Marine clenched his own fist which seemed almost as large as any boy 's head , though this was not actually the case . |
| 7 | The final seal of royal approval was given when the Prince built his own holiday retreat in Brighton . |
| 8 | I liked to think that , while discreet enough for an important occasion , the ensemble made its own kind of personal statement . |
| 9 | Men who could afford the luxury owned their own horse , plus one or more horse-litters for their family . |
| 10 | All three main parties had reconstruction committees working on postwar plans by 1941 , while professional groups such as the BMA and the Town and Country Planning Association provided their own schemes . |
| 11 | As pop 's glitterati edged towards maturity , the Prince 's Trust and Amnesty International , the thing called Rock pursued its own path . |
| 12 | I was therefore instructed to discontinue the action on the basis that each side paid their own costs , although the Guardian had suffered a continuous reverse in their attempts to maintain the right to press freedom and to maintain secrecy about their informant . |
| 13 | A WOUNDED British woman told yesterday how her lover gave his own life to save her from death in the claws of a crazed grizzly bear . |
| 14 | Each horse had his own harness ; and if it could n't be spared to be sent down to the shop for repair , the horseman brought it himself , got it seen to and took it back ready for work on the next day . |
| 15 | Sinatra would have started a fight there and then but his minders knew that the club had its own hit men and refused to start throwing punches . |
| 16 | The mind had its own way of softening blows , he thought sententiously . |
| 17 | Until then each department had its own grant aid budget , which was administered by the service committee . |
| 18 | Each cell had its own stimulus requirements and when it became active this said something about the nature of the event or object in its own part of the visual field . |
| 19 | What bugged me was the way they sampled that line ‘ Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day ’ from the film Withnail and I. It was a shame , since what I liked was the way the album had its own space and logic . |
| 20 | Each boat had its own huer on the cliff . |
| 21 | He said the existing system was a throwback to the days when each borough ran its own affairs and added that for much of the time the heavy rescue unit could only be used if firemen were taken off other machines . |
| 22 | The institution had its own ideas about how to relieve the monotony of the beat . |
| 23 | This compartmentalization on stage reflects the administrative separation between the different ensembles in the king 's employ and further suggests that each ensemble had its own integrity and its own performing conventions that would have been respected in varying contexts . |
| 24 | Each inmate had her own locker and a screen for privacy . |
| 25 | Each telephone instrument had its own dial and from it can be dialled other extensions as well as outside calls . |
| 26 | However , its location and release of new energies within a literary text are based on discoveries of how that text negotiated its own culture . |
| 27 | ‘ He has no regard to the decreets of y[ou]r courts , but repells them currently , ’ the duke was told , and the writer added his own opinion of the intention of the bailie-depute in thus attacking a rival jurisdiction . |
| 28 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee revealed its own view of the matter by firmly rejecting this proposal and recommending instead that the maximum penalty for non-consensual buggery of a male should be increased . |
| 29 | Such an imposition created its own problems . |
| 30 | Each girl drew her own picture in her own section of the paper . |