Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was awfully fond of her husband , of course , but there was no denying that their own lovemaking had become just a little predictable . |
| 2 | The key to success with such an approach is planning and communication such that everyone involved understands what is happening and their own role within the total picture . |
| 3 | Be explicit at the point where you leave off summarising and your own words take over ( see below , Chapter 5 , pp. 105 – 7 , for techniques which enable you to do this ) . |
| 4 | This is n't a case of writers bleating because their own books wo n't be available ; we all spent hours in libraries learning our trade , the only way to learn to write is to how it 's done by other people be it well or badly |
| 5 | John-Augustus tried to josh himself into accepting that his own bout was no more than that . |
| 6 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 8 | He picked up the wafer of liquid crystal which represented himself and stared at the High Priest 's face , his own , wishing that his own image could confide in him in the same way that the Harlequin had . |
| 9 | After all , we have been reaping rewards from the vegetable garden for months : the soil ca n't go on and on providing if its own storehouse is not replenished . |
| 10 | It is in this spirit that we can greet Rollin 's attempt to resolve the ‘ entire question of toxicity ’ , if we extend the field beyond drugs to insecticides , preservatives , children 's toys , and the rest , by demonstrating that our own interests and those of experimental animals overlap : ‘ Basically , it is in both our interests to diminish the number of potentially toxic substances being introduced into the market and into the environment ’ ( 1981 : 99 ) . |
| 11 | The Board is simply saying that its own policies will also be explicitly only for companies . |
| 12 | They pay in six per cent of their salary , why should they be debarred from saying that they own part of those funds . |
| 13 | He is , in one sense , saying that his own authority came from God . |
| 14 | With the minority status of ultra running and his own unease with publicity , the fact that he has no sponsors is hardly surprising , especially as he admits to not running to win , but the Zarei philosophy of running takes that into account . |
| 15 | By the spring of 1993 at least nine republics or regions within the Russian Federation were insisting that their own laws took precedence over those of the Federation as a whole , and the Chechen republic had gone still further and declared itself a fully independent state . |
| 16 | erm I suppose that would mean if they felt they were taking up so much of their time that they could n't do what they considered to be their job properly , and if they felt that I think the parents were persisting and insisting that their own children got more attention than the school could really afford to give them if they were going to be fair to everyone . |
| 17 | Already in 1928 he was protesting that his own pronouncements at the time of the Imagist manifesto were tailored to the specific needs of 1914 , and should not be taken as binding fourteen years later . |
| 18 | Knowing that his own name would not prove creditworthy , he inserted the name and address of a close neighbour on the standard proposal form |
| 19 | Once you can do this without the aid of the locator , you will have the satisfaction of knowing that your own skills alone will enable you to make use of this last-ditch method of rescue . |
| 20 | I push , prod , drop keys and re-attempt entry in vain until I realize that the only resemblance between the car into which I was breaking and entering and my own car is that they were both white . |
| 21 | It would enable them to make comparisons between the language they are learning and their own language , and engage in the kind of rational enquiry which is encouraged in other subjects on the curriculum . |
| 22 | It is English or nodding but their own sort of Spanish . |
| 23 | Government representatives have claimed that the WWF " want to extend the conservation too far " claiming that its own plan is " more realistic " . |
| 24 | Erm , on page thirty you talk about the erm Employer 's Federation in the er minimum terms and conditions , well I 'm only hoping that my own firm Securicor do n't have any er input into that , because er as you know they unilaterally reduced all the terms and conditions Securicor guarding and cleaning recently erm I 'd like to know when we intend meeting with Securicor Cleaner I do know you 've written to them on a number of occasions and their refusal to meet with us . |
| 25 | Now , seeing as my own computer literacy extends only as far as Super Mario Bros , I 'm left feeling a little bewildered by it all . |
| 26 | ‘ Although , God knows ’ , he said , ‘ the poor Birds ought to have a holiday from me for years to come , for I have been incessantly shooting and my own gun was not the only one that waged war upon them . |