Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He really was , at that moment , one for whom there were ‘ two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings , myself and my Creator ’ , as Newman described his own experience . |
| 2 | Mrs Allan used her own funds to hire local divers and a submersible camera crew at a cost of £500 per day . |
| 3 | The operation came to an end on 8 October 1988 , when Mazur faked his own wedding stag night . |
| 4 | Edward made his own views clear by stating that he regarded the 1328 treaty as invalid because it had been made when he was a minor and under the tutelage of others and that his title to the overlordship of Scotland should be reasserted . |
| 5 | It was a calculated tear-jerker , but delivered with great sincerity , and Kathleen found her own eyes misting over . |
| 6 | Villagers and fisherfolk in Manila ( Philippines ) , West Bengal and Tamil Nadu ( India ) , and in Mexico used their own resources rather than technology to achieve particular results . |
| 7 | Donna tasted her own blood as it ran into her mouth from the cut on her lip . |
| 8 | The Shans and Kachins claimed their own states within a Union of Burma : this was accepted . |
| 9 | Grimma shook her own head as she tried to make sense of it . |
| 10 | The treatment was stopped and Mrs Hilton prescribed her own course of healthy eating and holistic medicine . |
| 11 | Corbett felt his own anger boil at the Prioress ' air of righteous indignation . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Serbian communities in Croatia appeared to have jeopardized the success of the UNPROFOR ( UN Protection Force in Yugoslavia — see p. 38849 ) by refusing to demilitarize , and the Serbian population of Bosnia-Hercegovina formed its own government on May 12 , announcing the formation of its own armed forces . |
| 13 | British Airways is suing Virgin Atlantic Airways and its chairman Richard Branson for libel only weeks after Branson took his own action against BA over an alleged dirty tricks campaign . |
| 14 | They were being brought up with the same affection the Sheikha gave her own daughter . |
| 15 | Edward gave his own name , mentioned the meeting with Morton , mentioned Wohltat . |
| 16 | Early on , Solowka and Gregory did their own bit of AWOLing but it was usually because of a Littlewoods Cup replay , not to escort a bevy of simpering temptresses in nylon flairs . |
| 17 | His successor Charles the Good increased his own powers of coercion to protect the weak and the tillers of the soil , while limiting those of others through prohibitions on weapon-carrying in markets or towns , and on the lighting of beacons to signal the start of a private war . |
| 18 | Like every country , Portugal had its own traditions , its own festivals , its own special holidays — such as when independence from the Spanish back in 1640 was celebrated , or the more recent revolution was remembered — but she had yet to fix the dates in her mind . |
| 19 | Sometimes it was Ruth 's job to look after them both , though not often , since Edward had his own governess , Miss Fitch , who was omnipresent and jealously guarded her position . |
| 20 | Hatch sipped his own drink . |
| 21 | Sparrow added his own comments and scraps of paper to theirs . |
| 22 | On 6 April 1320 the clergy , barons and community of Scotland made their own appeal , asserting Scotland 's right to freedom from alien domination . |
| 23 | DEAN Gould beat his own world record in Felixstowe , Suffolk yesterday — flipping 296 new 10p pences from his arm to his hand . |
| 24 | Afshar drew his own conclusions from this . |
| 25 | A month later , this was how Mrs Browning described her own world . |
| 26 | Payne cut his own tools from honeysuckle , acorns , vines and leaves and worked in a restrained manner on a red-brown calf impregnated with birch bark oil — a leather often known as ‘ russia ’ . |
| 27 | To understand the climate of opinion within which Darwin developed his own theory of transmutation during the late 1830s , we must bear in mind that Lamarckism had been branded as an atheistical theory appealing only to political revolutionaries . |
| 28 | Long before Sartre developed his own form of Marxist-Hegelian history , Bachelard had been working in a critical relation to Hegelian historicism . |
| 29 | With a sigh , Ronni pressed her own lips against them , feeling sparks of electricity skitter down her spine . |
| 30 | The vigour with which Lenin pressed his own view of the Party played a major role in crystallizing the latent divisions among the Social Democrats . |