Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is more likely to enjoy going to a restaurant that has good traditional furnishings that are well designed in their own terms . |
| 2 | Statistically the chances of elderly people being attacked in their own homes are very low . |
| 3 | The report suggests that the police regard true rape as occurring where one or preferably two of the following criteria are met : ( 1 ) complainer is attacked in her own home by intruder(s) ; ( 2 ) ‘ respectable ’ complainer attacked by strangers ; ( 3 ) complainer is severely beaten up ; ( 4 ) complainer is attacked by assailants wanted by or known to the police for crimes of violence ( especially against women ) ; ( 5 ) assailant uses weapon ; ( 6 ) assailant apprehended at scene of crime . |
| 4 | Thus it was possible for a Frenchman to hide from a crime committed in his own country by adopting another nationality . |
| 5 | Transfixed by what they saw in America , airlines elsewhere expanded to get ready for the increased competition expected in their own skies . |
| 6 | Brewers found to have diluted their products were to be incarcerated in their own vats . |
| 7 | Sicily is still trapped in its own past . |
| 8 | However , even with this unpromising start , more could possibly have been achieved with a leadership less trapped in its own class origins . |
| 9 | Trapped in her own loneliness , suicide had begun to dominate her thoughts . |
| 10 | You 're too trapped in your own ego to be able to hear or to understand . ’ |
| 11 | We had not bargained on being trapped in our own hall . ’ |
| 12 | If there is one danger facing Armani , it 's that of becoming trapped in his own stereotype ; when the day finally comes that he tires of the simple suit and sensational jacket , the world may just insist that he keeps on making them . |
| 13 | He can not obey God and subsequently finds himself trapped in his own cocoon . |
| 14 | painter friend of the Bobtail Widgers , forestalled in his own branch of art by Fithers . |
| 15 | That so many disputes were reported in the range of newspapers consulted by Dobson is indicative of a much larger population , either not yet discovered by historians or not reported in their own time . |
| 16 | To his first speech to Parliament , on 18 November 1760 , the king added in his own hand the robust declaration : ‘ Born and educated in this country , I glory in the name of Britain . ’ |
| 17 | We invite you to donate a play to be added in your own name to this collection . |
| 18 | To Grasmere , then , they had come in their own kind of innocence and plunged straight into a storm . |
| 19 | If they did n't get a move on , I would miss my gig and lose vital cash — as I had n't come in my own car , I was stranded . |
| 20 | Largely through Gould 's influence , it has recently become fashionable to say that Goldschmidt was underrated in his own lifetime , and that he really has much to teach us . |
| 21 | Random sample of 4007 adults interviewed in their own homes . |
| 22 | A random sample of 4007 adults ( 1883 men ) aged 30 and over was interviewed in their own homes at geographically stratified sampling points throughout Great Britain . |
| 23 | The Canadian visit 's all part of a concerted effort by the centre 's administrators to keep its members immersed in their own culture . |
| 24 | ‘ Very nice , ’ he said again , and got into bed , still immersed in his own thoughts . |
| 25 | We are all deeply immersed in our own understanding of these things — we live the reality of them every day . |
| 26 | Then there will remain the architectural corner shop , busy and respected in its own community , doing house extensions , small commercial developments and a wide range of local jobs . |
| 27 | You have n't sat in your own chair all this week . |
| 28 | In the 1970s the Labour government supported a private member 's Bill which took over an item which would have been included in its own programme if there had been sufficient parliamentary time . |
| 29 | However , critics note that China does not obey human-rights guarantees contained in its own constitution . |
| 30 | Before 1869 , there was no Institution in England and Wales ( nor for that matter , in Scotland ) where deaf children of Roman Catholics could be educated in their own faith , and when a Belgian priest , Monsignore de Haerne , a deputy in the Belgian Senate , learnt of this , he came to Britain for the purpose of establishing one . |