Example sentences of "[vb base] in [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she wanted was to get this whole thing over with , so she could go home to Kentish Town and sleep in her own bed . |
| 2 | Noreen felt much the same so it was with great relief that for the New York engagement they could at least travel in from Queen 's each day and sleep in their own beds at night . |
| 3 | If your client is in a trade , say baking , then you must deal with his trade journals , Clients are sensitive enough about what is said about them in the consumer press but when negatives appear in their own trade journal , the sparks fly at your next client meeting . |
| 4 | You can even program it to ring your mum , on her birthday , in three months time when you are on holiday and say in your own voice ‘ Happy Birthday , Mum ! ’ . |
| 5 | This , after all , we ourselves acknowledge in our own world when we speak of ‘ witch-hunts ’ against communists in America , or counter-revolutionary capitalists in socialist states . |
| 6 | They can select the seminar option , which displays on their screens the text of the discussion in progress , and tap in their own ideas . |
| 7 | symbolic representation , the labour process , and interaction on the basis of reciprocity ; each mediates subject and object in its own way . |
| 8 | Each cell had its own stimulus requirements and when it became active this said something about the nature of the event or object in its own part of the visual field . |
| 9 | The nervous man who 16 months ago called for ‘ a country at ease with itself ’ seemed at last to have achieved that ease in his own mind . |
| 10 | Just because they walk in their own streets . ’ |
| 11 | We will put our women behind us in the mountains , and die in our own land fighting for them . |
| 12 | It does n't mean to say they do n't like participating , but they 'd like to you know see what the group view is before they put in their own views so they 're analyzing , thinking . |
| 13 | They put in their own names , and chuckle over the story . |
| 14 | They speak in their own voices — let them be heard ! |
| 15 | Not that I will paint in my own way , live in my own way , speak in my own way — they do n't mind that . |
| 16 | ‘ I kill in my own time , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Seeing : As you walk along the street , relax in your own home or work in your office , learn to become aware of your surroundings . |
| 18 | A PROPHET is not without honour , save in his own house . |
| 19 | The top management group with which we began this chapter decided to begin to change their organisational defensive routines by beginning with the ones that they create in their own meetings . |
| 20 | It 's easier to prevent the escape of the internal noise which you create in your own home , and which is liable to annoy your neighbours , than it is to prevent noise entering your house from outside or from next door . |
| 21 | Liz attempted her first sketch of her mother , her first outline for the outside world of the domestic ghost with which she had lived so long : Alix spoke of her relief at escaping from the small boarding school world in which her parents and her contemporaries all knew one another far too well : Esther conjured up visions of both deprivation and splendour in her own past . |
| 22 | The parent figures as a group showed gross excesses of psychiatric disturbance , physical illness and disability , and criminality , and the abusing parent had often been subjected to physical or mental abuse or neglect in their own childhood . |
| 23 | Guideline 3 : Have your priorities clear in your own mind . |
| 24 | They had none of the socially sterile attitude towards art which we adopt in our own culture . |
| 25 | ‘ Please describe in your own words , how you reached your decisions ( i.e. what strategy or strategies did you use ? ) |
| 26 | Describe in your own words what is meant by the concept of duality . |
| 27 | Things happen in their own time , on Vadinamia . |
| 28 | The torsos sizzle in their own fat , swell and explode . ’ |
| 29 | I spit in my own face . |
| 30 | tidy , but you know , you know in your own mind you ca n't |