Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My view was that people wanted what they regarded as their own pension and my aim was to ensure an expansion in provision . |
| 2 | There was about a grand in the old account — my dad 's money came by standing order — but I would n't use it , and what I regarded as my own finances were judging from the tone of the bank 's increasingly frequent letters somewhere in the deep infrared and in serious danger of vanishing from the electromagnetic spectrum altogether . |
| 3 | He had always resented Marcia Williams because of the influence she exercised over Harold Wilson and that resentment grew as his own power diminished . |
| 4 | He also recorded his suspicions that those paupers who had gone to prison were now wearing clothes belonging to the workhouse , and enquired whether their own clothes should be sent to them . |
| 5 | Morgan waited while his own case was processed , biting his lips . |
| 6 | He was troubled by the strange things the Rannoch eagles had said about the Wrath eagles being exterminated and wondered if his own capture had been part of that . |
| 7 | I wondered if our own troops in distant countries behaved in this way . |