Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've been here long enough now to have formed your own impressions of what goes on . |
| 2 | Our local starling population is a race apart in that they are non-migratory and have been isolated in the islands for long enough to have developed their own characteristics . |
| 3 | He does not seem — and this is a crazy thing to say in the face of his beautiful verse , to appear ungrateful for it — but I say it , he does not seem to have inhabited his own experience . |
| 4 | The only restrictions on purchasers were not to have owned their own home during the previous three years or to have spent more than $100,000 on their prospective North Side home . |
| 5 | She had not been absent from her home for long enough to have forgotten her own house smell . |
| 6 | He seemed to have exceeded his own limits . |
| 7 | ‘ Moreover , ’ Corbett added , ‘ you seem to have answered your own questions . |
| 8 | It was one thing to have turned his own country into an ‘ underdeveloping ’ society , but to seek out the company of the other basket-cases of the world economy was to add gratuitous insult to already grave injury in the minds of most Romanians . |
| 9 | He appears to have made his own luck and , despite setbacks such as presenting the short-lived TV quiz show Scruples , it looks as if Simon will continue to be a success . |
| 10 | But , equally , I was ashamed not to have made my own way when I came back to London . |
| 11 | He was thought to have hampered his own cause through the manner of his testimony , especially his attempted defence of his membership of a country club with a notorious reputation for discrimination against blacks and Jews . |
| 12 | But the people who built them — the thirty or forty people possibly at the most in Oxford who built those houses — it would solve their problems and it would give them a completely new slant on life to have built their own houses . |
| 13 | It has preferred to follow rather than lead the majority of the industry 's employers and seems to have interpreted its own role as that of a safety net to protect the worst-exploited workers . |
| 14 | These tickets were produced en masse , though certain coffin-makers and funeral furnishers are known to have commissioned their own designs , with a central cartouche for the printed or hand-written details announcing the name of the deceased and the place , date and time of the funeral . |
| 15 | Two writers whose letter-collections survive , Ruricius of Limoges and Avitus of Vienne , openly revered the style of Sidonius , and a third , Ferreolus of Uzès , is known to have modelled his own writings on those of the bishop of Clermont . |
| 16 | The temples seem to have had their own ivory carvers , but it is known that ivory carving also went on at Palaikastro , where there was no temple . |
| 17 | Angela Brickell had to have invited her own death . |
| 18 | The Dominican Republic was widely held to have undermined its own efforts to become a full member of CARICOM following the announcement in January 1990 of a plan to export up to 763 tonnes of bananas per week to Europe from April 1990 . |
| 19 | The deep divisions within the party over the abortion issue were illustrated by Bush in an interview on Aug. 12 in which he appeared to have softened his own stance of opposition to abortion under almost all circumstances , by recognising the importance of a woman 's personal choice in the matter . |
| 20 | For HRH Prince Philip is known to have entertained his own version of this ‘ law-and-order ’ jeremiad , warning in 1979 of ‘ this avalanche of lawlessness threatening to engulf our civilisation ’ . |
| 21 | Notice that for him to be able to say this he does not have to have observed his own behaviour . |
| 22 | This may partly account for the secrecy and guilt that surrounds the family if their relative is understood to have taken his own life . |
| 23 | The third year student , known to his friends simply as Donm Lau is thought to have taken his own life just days from his final exams in modern history . |
| 24 | Time in the monastery on the Via Siciliana-where Hamilton seems to have taken his own vow of silence . |
| 25 | The question Ballater had to force himself to ask underlined his own failure and it came out gruffly . |