Example sentences of "[det] in [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the final straw , being trapped like this in her own flat . |
| 2 | I can see this in my own case , where losing a job or a home has in certain instances reopened old wounds . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got things like this in my own garage at home . |
| 4 | But , but , but from the em from the employers point of view , what he stands to lose if that person 's away from work , I mean , all all all the er , chap 's gon na lose is his , his income so , if he was doing it this in his own case , he would be looking to replace . |
| 5 | You have about twenty minutes , listen , to do this in your own way . |
| 6 | It is easy to do this in your own country . |
| 7 | They would have come , some in their own boats , others by steerage in mail or cargo boats , round the wild coastline of Cape Wrath . |
| 8 | In this he made the Black Panthers the first significant radical group to recognize gay liberation as a valid political movement , and did so in terms which provoked hostility from some in his own party : ‘ maybe I 'm injecting some of my prejudices by saying that ‘ even a homosexual can be revolutionary' ’ . |
| 9 | But Chancellor Kohl has hand picked him to be president despite bitter opposition including some in his own party . |
| 10 | Even if some sounds are similar to some in your own language they still need to be practised , as they may differ just a bit , and that sometimes makes it even harder to get them sound right automatically . |
| 11 | Perhaps his former master will allow him to continue to read his papers ; or he may be permitted to read the papers of another in his own chambers with whom he is on friendly terms . |
| 12 | Only when forced into it by Nutty , by the fear of losing Firelight , had he come to accept it as such in his own mind . |
| 13 | The general idea is to build something pretty much in their own image . |
| 14 | In this connection , individual policy decisions have to be taken very much in their own context by a close examination of the design and implementation of particular pieces of legislation . |
| 15 | Steve White says its the first stepping stone of a month , where they have all the top teams and it 's very much in their own hands . |
| 16 | Well , she said it was n't quite ready for inspection , but I have seen some work that is in progress that is now very much in her own style : some night forest scenes that are very striking , one very calm , two very anguished . |
| 17 | Afraid that Candy 's probing blue eyes would be able to read far too much in her own features , Rory kept her face averted , taking great pains to straighten a bottle in the already immaculate display in the club 's main bar . |
| 18 | But it does mean that there is little chance for physical closeness or the impulse cuddling that can say so much in its own right , as well as leading naturally and delightfully to full sexual enjoyment . |
| 19 | Mick Quinn does n't have to say too much in his own defence apart from pointing to an average of 20 goals a season for 13 years , and 13 in 10 starts since August . |
| 20 | Just as much in my own comrades , in Montague , as in the invisible Germans . |
| 21 | On the subject of personal hygiene and ‘ standards ’ in general , I had noticed that I was beginning to swear rather too much in my own thoughts . |
| 22 | To tell these in their own right and expect them to retain the charm they got from their larger setting would be a terrible error , an error to which Tolkien would be more sensitive than any man alive . |
| 23 | Young men from all over the world started singing the Internationale , all in their own languages . |
| 24 | It is to this existential challenge that the writers here discussed addressed themselves , all in their own ways meeting it by demonstrating how to go on the game of faith ! |
| 25 | Until a few years ago , married women had to have paid full NI contributions for half the time they were married and working to get anything at all in their own right . |
| 26 | One of these , the composer 's working score of a late version of his Te Deum , Paris , Bibliotheque Nationale ( F-Pn ) , H400D(3) ( illus.3 ) , is all in his own hand except for a fair copy of a shortened version of the seventh movement , ‘ Tu Rex gloriae ’ which is in a second hand , and another inserted folio with an alternative version of ‘ Dignare ’ and ‘ Miserere ’ , in a third hand . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've got far too many in my own family for starters . |
| 28 | It did not bother Mr Premadasa that he was disliked by most politicians , including many in his own party . |
| 29 | Tonight they are packing , each in their own home … |
| 30 | Instead , several different groups of biologists tried , each in their own way , to modernize field studies in a manner that would allow them to compete for the ever-increasing supply of research funding being made available by governments and private institutions . |