Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The provincial landscape of factions and fractions — localities squalling in impotence , absurdly competing for crumbs of resources , with no incentive to collaborate — is of course its own creation . |
2 | Then I 'm ashamed of the cliche : plenty of Somervillians know the thick of things , the Principals for starters : Miss Pestell and Lady Park at the F. O. , Mrs Craig with the British Council , and of course our own DameJanet , at the end of that last war … . |
3 | If we acted unilaterally , we should end up putting out of business our own egg producers just to be flooded with eggs produced under the very system that we had banned . |
4 | Even as there is a movement among women towards women-controlling our own sexuality and reproduction , childbirth , and a return to midwifery principles , the new reproductive and genetic technologies are asserting a model for scientific control of reproduction , and one that is industrial : these methods are big money-makers for the biotechnology industry , the old and new pharmaceutical and medical supply companies . |
5 | In consequence he became , in Liddie 's eyes , the kind of mother her own mother had been — one who disabled her by taking over . |
6 | The man could both paint and name a chair , and bring into play his own terrors and hopes , and behind it , the culture of Europe , north and south , the Church itself . |
7 | In the course of defending Creole against Shane 's objections , Chris actually begins to use Creole , distancing his own talk from that of Shane and putting into practice his own belief that " if you want them to know your culture you have to chat it " . |
8 | His experience had led him to become a teacher at training sessions , but that prevented him from putting into practice his own form of calculated waging of war . |
9 | You must also take into consideration your own comfort . |
10 | His many enthusiasms extended to owning a couple of elderly Rolls-Royces , attempting to restart a School of Architecture at the RA , submitting with success his own drawings to the Summer Exhibition and vigorously supporting home-town local causes , including the Malvern Arts Club . |
11 | If we are required to make a decision which has consequences for other people , and if we wish to treat them properly , then it is vital that we take into account their own views on the matter . |
12 | He reminded everyone that good often comes out of change dictated by environmental considerations , for example his own company became involved in titanium dioxide extraction when looking for an alternative to white lead . |
13 | All in case his own knight came a cropper and he had to change horses in mid stream . |
14 | But in practice his own research had proved that IMF austerity programmes force Third World countries deeper into debt . |
15 | And it is men and women , people on low income and children , you know your , so bear in mind your own children and grandchildren , if they have n't got income up to three four four five , tell them to watch this deduction of tax from banks or building societies . |
16 | If he did , then he was aware of the situation of risk and , it is suggested , should be acquitted only if his failure to consider that she might not appreciate the nature of the act was reasonable , bearing in mind his own capacities . |
17 | Stella is a wild card both in the deepest recesses of Serena 's own mind and in the domain of middlemen , for Stella is the only character in the novel who is exempt from this status : ‘ Stella was in effect her own middleman , alone in the world , selling her personality , and very badly ’ ( 30 ) . |
18 | Carson said that in theory his own place was within the flood basin , but there had never been any trouble as long as he 'd lived there ; places right on the towpath used to get flooded regularly when the tide was high . |
19 | For as she pressed back against the front door , trembling and bewildered , she saw what was in substance her own house . |
20 | A few decades later , the alleged philosophers and legislators made public in Greek their own philosophy and legislation . |
21 | Warner Brothers immediately set in motion its own research programme to explore the feasibility of the idea ; it would run for some months before anyone realised it had been an April Fool and abandoned their research . |
22 | had realised that Stalin had become extremely unpopular with the Russian peoples , so he decided , in February 1956 , to reveal some of Stalin 's crimes — in effect denouncing him — and from then onwards the Eastern European countries began in shape their own policies , instead of blindly following the policies dictated by the U.S.S.R. |
23 | In fact their own interests — in terms of improving both their domestic position and their leverage with Moscow — coincided with Castro 's in pushing for a fully socialist revolution . |
24 | In fact my own wife , she came of a big family and and she had to look after most of the the younger children until they started work you see and then it was the next one that had to look after them again you see and so on , and that 's how it went on . |
25 | In fact my own club stand-offs . |
26 | In fact my own club stand-off , Jonathan Newton , keeps my on my toes because he moves around a lot , in fact all over the place , and I just have to find him wherever he is ! |
27 | It 's meaningful and you may not , as I say , come out with any single and simple answer , in fact my own view really is that there 's large area over which it does n't matter very much . |
28 | Here Lucy was lifted up , and allowed to measure her own corn , using a round wooden pottle measure filled to the brim each time and carefully smoothed off . |
29 | Under the acts , corporations are required to measure their own pollution level and report this to the inspectorate . |
30 | It was an option she did n't usually have , kissing a gorgeous man on board her own ship . |