Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was within 30 minutes of a wake ordered by Mrs Rinehart in her own mansion in old-money Dalkeith . |
| 2 | At the local level control was taken away from the School Boards and put into the hands of local councils who were to serve as LEAs in their own areas . |
| 3 | What precisely is wrong with Gaelic-speaking children being allowed to see Thomas the Tank Engine , and Postman Pat in their own language ? |
| 4 | There was only one topic , it would seem , in the staging-posts they passed on their way , in the halls of Kineth of Angus and Gillocher of Mar , of Malpedar of Buchan and of Morgund of Moray , before the fires of Hlodver at Dingwall and Odalric of Caithness , and finally at Birsay in their own hall on the shore , with Otkel leaning forward asking questions , and Thorkel Fóstri and Killer-Bardi and the rest sitting silent , listening , with the Earl 's sons and his wife . |
| 5 | Several did respond , however , and I fondly remember visiting such people as Joan Hatton , Christine Crosland-Symms , Charles Mayo and Harold Fletcher Trew in their own homes . |
| 6 | What happened in East Anglia is obscure but Eadwald disappeared and c. 805 Coenwulf resumed the minting of coins in East Anglia in his own name . |
| 7 | Japanese security houses such as Nomura now challenge such US financial giants as Merrill Lynch in their own back yard , while the US giants together with the Japanese challenge the European leaders each in their own chasse gardée . |
| 8 | Statistics have been published showing numbers of residents supported by local authorities in England in their own homes , and in private and voluntary establishments , for the year ending 31 March 1990 . |
| 9 | The Doctor accuses the two schoolteachers of sabotaging the ship as a blackmail threat to get them back to England in their own time . |
| 10 | In fact the murder of Thomas Becket by four knights of the king of England in his own cathedral in 1170 , sealed the fate of the royal position . |
| 11 | You shook hands wish Mr Zanuck in his own office . ’ |
| 12 | Having set off in great style from Salzburg in their own carriage , they were now so impecunious that they were obliged to sell it before the frontier and go on by postchaise . |
| 13 | SGS-Thomson will also continue to produce BiCMOS circuits for Seagate in its own wafer fabs . |
| 14 | This was a passage of history hardly known even to the ablest scholars or the twelfth-century Renaissance , and very imperfectly known to those of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries who self-consciously implanted the democratic institutions of republican Rome and ancient Athens in their own Florence . |
| 15 | Before he had gone to Wales , her employers had allowed him to visit Helen in her own room . |
| 16 | Both Harry ( Billy Crystal ) and Sally ( Meg Ryan ) are simultaneously watching Casablanca in their own bedrooms and discussing it by phone as it ends . |
| 17 | Now he rules at Downing Street in his own right . |
| 18 | What in Morris in their own home ? |
| 19 | One of his associates was the noted bibliophile Richard de Bury , later Bishop of Durham , and it was he who informed the Pope , in response to a message conveyed verbally , that requests which the king himself really wished to be carried out would bear the words Pater Sancte in his own hand . |
| 20 | The Moi immediately climbed other trees and peered in the direction of his finger ; then they began chattering excitedly to Devraux in their own language . |
| 21 | ‘ Magnificent , ’ repeated Samuel in his own person , ducking one of the numerous pigeons that had proprietary rights in the pink dianthus-covered walls . |
| 22 | The EC intends to join the IWC in its own right , thereby ensuring that IWC rules are enshrined in EC law . |
| 23 | That indicates what might happen next : a vote of no-confidence in Mr Yeltsin in his own parliament which , because that parliament is increasingly under the sway of Communist deputies , might pass . |
| 24 | It did , however , have the ‘ incantations ’ referred to above , which were immensely old , very musical in their own way , and a powerful social force — cohesively , and as an instrument of struggle — as the intifada have found in modern Israel in our own day . ) |
| 25 | Some people would even question whether it is any longer right for a married woman to be expected to depend on her husband and to be unable to claim SB in her own right . |
| 26 | Abolish the cohabitation rule and you establish the right of a mistress to draw SB in her own right . |
| 27 | To rediscover the life of Jesus in our own times is to come before him , poor and naked , and to live his life , not ours . |
| 28 | But Rita in her own department has got the document that she sends so the researcher does n't have to take the bit of paper round to everybody and get their research approval form signed . |
| 29 | When the last de Burgh Earl of Ulster died in 1333 he left only a daughter , Elizabeth Countess of Ulster in her own right , whom the king married to his second son , Lionel of Antwerp , created Duke of Clarence in 1362 . |
| 30 | Pluto in your own sign is making you more secretive even than usual . |