Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have an interesting story to tell , whether you 've built your own house or dug your own pool , write to the Editor at the address on the opposite page , and if we publish it , you could get a cash reward ! |
| 2 | The lad 's prize was a silver shilling , the maids got a shilling and a kiss , and Mrs. Jarrett — well , for one terrified minute she thought she was due a kiss , too , but instead she had a stately one-round waltz on the meadow with the master , while everyone else laughed 206 or cheered or sang their own idea of a waltz tune . |
| 3 | Indeed , many blacks were skinheads or formed their own crews , such as the Kilburn Blacks and the Kilburn Whites . |
| 4 | At school the ideal of womanhood was based on the assumptions of a different social class : woman 's life was service , the dispensation of charity , whether she was married and dependent , or earned her own living . |
| 5 | He played with Louis Armstrong 's All Stars at the end of the 50s and led his own band at Eddie Condon 's in New York in the mid-60s . |
| 6 | He had forgotten this unofficial war and damned his own foolhardiness at not taking the matter into account . |
| 7 | He wanted footballers to have a respectable place in society , breaking away from their traditional cloth-cap image , and expected his own players to adopt respectable standards of dress and behaviour . |
| 8 | She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity . |
| 9 | But some of the branches apparently just like pinned it up , been quite happy to pin up the returned fax and then each consultant just gone and read his own bit . |
| 10 | Then she drew him up to her , and lowered her own head to take him in her mouth , her tongue darting out in tender forays at the base of his penis , stroking his belly with her hair as her teeth gently nibbled his manhood . |
| 11 | Later that year the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Magazine quoted these results in full and announced its own competition : |
| 12 | He advertised his own brand of cigarettes and sold his own brand of whisky . |
| 13 | She designed and made her own clothes , sometimes colouring the fabric with home-made dyes ; this gave the articles a most individual style and character . |
| 14 | She felt ashamed that she had left him and made her own escape . |
| 15 | She made her own chutney , and made her own pickles , even though she was at work . |
| 16 | As Simon Halliday is a fine footballer and made his own contribution with a try you can say that it was almost a perfect backline . |
| 17 | Corbett closed his eyes and made his own prayer , sending it up into the void . |
| 18 | In 1948 he moved to the ancient house of Daneway , near Sapperton , where he ground his own flour , baked his own bread and made his own paper on which to print his poems on his own press . |
| 19 | A year before his father avowed his change in faith , Cecil had journeyed to Rome and made his own profession of Catholicism . |
| 20 | Much to my surprise she agreed , on condition that we had separate rooms and made our own travel arrangements . |
| 21 | I went to them all and watched and listened and made my own judgements . |
| 22 | And those of us who could drive , collected passengers and appointed our own bus conductors . |
| 23 | Prime Minister Nicholas Brathwaite took over responsibility for Planning from Brizan and passed his own Information portfolio to Carlyle Glean , the Minister of Education , Culture , Youth Affairs and Sport . |
| 24 | He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life . |
| 25 | Not to be outdone , Pentos also took the plunge and produced its own 48-page , fully illustrated catalogue for all its shops ( last year it took the PN catalogue . |
| 26 | In some places the Afro-Caribbean community has composed Mass settings and produced its own hymn books . |
| 27 | Some clients have carpeted their own rooms and got their own curtains and things like that . |
| 28 | She led with the chin and got her own way most of the time . |
| 29 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 30 | Erm I must say that on the clothing scene , because I did criticize it in my earlier statements , er that when I was so young I thought it was so frumpy and I was so pleased when I was married and got my own income that , you know , I could go elsewhere and choose something . |