Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pretty soon the law would know more about Mahoney than his own mother . |
| 2 | He had little to shout about on Saturday as his own standard slipped to match that of those around him . |
| 3 | ‘ The sidh have not been seen in Ireland since my own father 's day , but they are still here , Fergus . |
| 4 | The company which sold the Abbey brewery to Charrington 's was the London and Burton Brewery Co of Stepney , which carried on brewing in Stepney until its own takeover by Watney 's in 1929 . |
| 5 | Since the Congress Kingdom of Poland was only one of a number of outlying parts of the empire which required his attention , and since he could hardly afford a forward policy in western Europe or the Balkans until his own peripheries were fully integrated into the imperial structure , he spent more time in the 1830s and 1840s on his own non-Russian subjects than on dealings with foreigners . |
| 6 | The silenced shot exploded upwards towards Liz Spalding as her own shot thundered through the house . |
| 7 | Turkey was not in a state of war and would not open a second front against Iraq unless its own territory was attacked . |
| 8 | From the first Leo had treated Kate as his own daughter and her marriage to James had n't changed that . |
| 9 | It is a debate which presumably would have appealed to Howard although his own views seem to have been that they are equally important . |
| 10 | — There is surely more to concern a Kha-Khan than his own interests . ’ |
| 11 | At 18 she gave up competing to teach , setting up a class in South Shields which she amalgamated with her old school in Jarrow when her own teacher retired . |