Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] own [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was approached to become a member of the group interested in ‘ the teaching of practical skills in biology ’ , I was only too pleased to become involved as I had been concerned , for some time , about my own teaching skills and strategies used in the classroom situation . |
| 2 | It does have the side-effect of making things feel stiffer and less responsive , though , and I 'd probably be inclined to leave this item off my own custom shopping list . |
| 3 | The previous evening I used the amp in a very large club as my own backline monitor , with a line out to the PA . |
| 4 | Michael Aldrich does not make this mistake in Videotex , Key to the Wired City This is a glossy paperback , with popular appeal , which could well form the basis of a case study for my own man/computer systems class next year . |
| 5 | You see when the erm legislation changes shortly , well the legislation is there but when it 's enacted erm they they will become responsible for repairing after their own hole digging and they have to provide us with guarantees . |
| 6 | Many clients continue to look after their own leg ulcers at home without any assistance from nursing or medical intervention . |
| 7 | There will be times when all patients undergoing surgery will be unable to look after their own safety needs ; that is when they are immobilized , sedated or anaesthetized . |
| 8 | This requires the individual to give up his right to free use of some or all NHS services and instead to look after his own health needs , either in the private sector or by paying the NHS . |
| 9 | We show you how to create and look after your own water garden |
| 10 | What attitudes do people have about their own sign language and about foreign sign languages ? |
| 11 | Although women listen sympathetically , they keep quiet about their own office blues . |
| 12 | And more of the top 1,000 company financial directors also expressed greater confidence about their own business prospects over the next 12 months as a result of the Budget . |
| 13 | No one who can be as objective about her own thinking processes as you are could be otherwise . |
| 14 | Health service tells patients family they must pay for her own life support equipment . |
| 15 | Since the beginning of the modernist theological era , she had not even had the once-yearly chore of taking her urn and collecting up the incense and imprecations put up , however formalistically , for her own feast day . |
| 16 | This is fuelled by a feeling that the primary sector may prove a pretty tough nut to crack , with local publishers offering resolute resistance in an area that they regard as their own back yard . |
| 17 | We are not yet in the realm of ‘ The March of The Killer Potato ’ , but perhaps research should be focused on the extent of glycoalkaloids , saponins , glucosinolates and other natural toxins produced by plants as their own pest repellent mechanisms . |
| 18 | The meanings which people attach to issues such as their own mortality need to be seen in the context of perceptions of life expectancy throughout the disability career . |
| 19 | This most recent work presents the viewer with images of young girls ( some of Honey 's own daughter , Daisy ) who willingly take on images from the media as their own role models . |
| 20 | The Who are the original flag-wearers , as the Mods adopted both Britain 's flag and the RAF 's roundel as their own pop art icons . |
| 21 | Firstly , attention to video nasties by the newspapers takes the attention off their own sensationalist coverage of sex offences . |
| 22 | all that off her own back y'know , only a little thing but she 's doing that as well |
| 23 | Had n't she taken off her own wedding ring and hung it around her neck with her red identity tag and the St Christopher medal Father O'Flaherty had given her ? |
| 24 | Such undertakings will normally be unacceptable to the purchaser who may wish to dispose of part of the assets or reduce inherent costs by utilising existing central services such as its own accounts department . |
| 25 | It is difficult to persuade teachers that the denial of valid arts experiences to themselves during their own school days has denied them an enriching experience and offered them instead an impoverished education . |
| 26 | British Steel already held 15 per cent of the stockholder market through its own service centres operation . |
| 27 | At the simplest level , a company may finance its new factory through its own cash resources . |
| 28 | This stops a firm from channelling its business through its own market makers . |
| 29 | HDS either arranges finance through its own leasing arm , Hitachi Credit , or uses other companies such as Forward Asset Finance or Standard Chartered . |
| 30 | Each of these business groupings operates through its own Executive Committee and these are made up as follows : |