Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One woman who did that got her own man back ! ’ |
| 2 | The Liverpool Crosby and Southport Railway , West Lancashire Railway , East Lancashire Railway , Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway each built their own depots at various sites around the town . |
| 3 | Shakespeare and Racine — or rather the developments which led up to them — each found his own reason . |
| 4 | Ace had pulled himself together , and conversely this made her own breakdown more apparent . |
| 5 | When someone discovered something , they had to explain it to the others , and this reinforced their own understanding . |
| 6 | This caused their own physicians to refer to the Aztec chalchihuitl as piedra de yjada or ‘ stone of the loin' . |
| 7 | The intention of the work was to interrogate the way in which pictures of my past , of my mother and myself as a baby or with my brothers and sisters , excluded and included certain stereotypes , perceptions and ideals and how this mediated my own experiences within a non-represented area — having a premature and sick baby . |
| 8 | Some brought their own stubs of candles to read the papers . |
| 9 | With the Capital Guarantee Bond there was only two months — this brought its own challenges . |
| 10 | Obviously this contained its own contradictions ; the patriotism of the football hooligan had to be tempered by the authority of the law . |
| 11 | Some of them received high command in the mid-fifteenth century , and some introduced their own characteristics to the fighting of war . |
| 12 | The divisional controllers themselves complained that this compromised their own line of authority within the division , and they generally harboured a strong feeling that headquarters interfered too much in the design of new stations . |
| 13 | By the 1960s , law affecting credit was complex , because of the way that different types of credit had , as it were , each spawned their own pieces of legislation . |
| 14 | The Indian Civil Service and the Sudan Political Service each practised its own system of careful selection , but up to and including the First World War recruitment to the Colonial Service — or rather the assemblage of small local services which made it up — was on a highly casual basis . |
| 15 | But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man . |
| 16 | Each of these had its own grammar school , but ( by a fine piece of local and ingenious conservatism ) those at Chipping Norton and Burford were more or less comprehensive . |
| 17 | There were many conflicting interests within nineteenth-century society , and each developed its own interpretation of evolutionism . |
| 18 | all farmers and all got their own families like er surely he had a fairly good shop when he . |
| 19 | We all got our own ones . |
| 20 | We all made our own way up the stone steps to the guardian 's hut , a recommended viewing point for the classic view over Machu Picchu 's maze of empty plazas , chambers , alleyways , and staircases carved out of solid rock . |
| 21 | As their distinguished captain and lock Kevin Swords ( 30 caps ) said afterwards : ‘ This is a very important game and the fact that we all paid our own way is a statement of how much the fixture means to us ’ . |
| 22 | Consequently there was much disappointment in Washington when the European Community was established in 1957 without Britain , and when the latter went her own way as leader of the looser and less ambitious European Free Trade Area . |
| 23 | Ah , they they all had their own blacksmith . |
| 24 | and they all had their own songs … |
| 25 | They all had their own finger of dock with a greater or lesser craft . |
| 26 | All had their own bed-sitting rooms and used shared , though generously provided , bathroom facilities , as well as communal dining and sitting rooms . |
| 27 | In his classic book The Prophets , Abraham Heschel has shown that Amos , Hosea , Jeremiah and Isaiah all considered their own input to be a crucial part of their message . |
| 28 | Each took his own way through this one . |
| 29 | As a sign of their professionalism , each had her own make-up box . |
| 30 | Mary Queen of Scots chose black morocco emblazoned with the royal lion of Scotland ; the French statesman Jean Baptiste Colbert had his 50,000 books bound in a morocco specially imported by treaty with the Sultan of Morocco ; one of the d'Urfe family opted for green velvet for his library of four thousand ; Madame du Deffand , friend of Voltaire and Horace Walpole ( to whom she left the care of her dog Tonton ) , endeavoured to immortalise her cat by using a gold stamp of it on the spines of her books ; the three daughters of Louis V each had her own colour with the fleur-de-lis in the centre of each cover — Adelaide red , Victoire olive green and Sophie citron . |