Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] own [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is increasing pressure on people to plan for their own old age , possibly using their assets to purchase suitable accommodation and personal care . |
| 2 | For a quarter of a century , the Association has allowed us , as students , to provide for our own independent social life , recreation and representation . |
| 3 | He has to come of his own free will . |
| 4 | This leads to problems when I try to conceive of my own knowing , believing or thinking in behaviourist terms . |
| 5 | And it would n't have been until the development of the first cities that streetwalkers really started to come into their own 11,000 — 12,000 years later . |
| 6 | The best thing to bring it all out , would be to write in my own African language , but I have to write in another language . |
| 7 | Historical biographers tend to work within their own national boundaries , and to prefer as subjects the Good Kings of national history . |
| 8 | ‘ I assume you made it worth her while in other ways , but obviously I failed to discover from her own fair lips how much you thought she was worth , and I 'm damned sure you wo n't admit how much you 've paid over the odds for her favours . ’ |
| 9 | What we can still do is to escape at long last from the constitutional fiction which we once grasped to ease our transition from the capital of a worldwide empire to a nation state alongside other nation states , but which , having produced so much havoc here at home , has turned into an instrument for external duress to be brought to bear on our own political institutions . |
| 10 | It is useful for those of us who worry that hearing other opinions and listening to other people may weaken our case , or make it difficult for us to concentrate on our own determined agenda . |
| 11 | This allows the description of Mariana 's surroundings to relate to her own mental condition . |
| 12 | Members are free to work on their own chosen subject if they desire . |
| 13 | Members are free to work on their own chosen subject if they desire . |
| 14 | Fox Talbot continued to work on his own photographic process in 1839–40 and patented his positive-negative process in 1841 . |
| 15 | When Thornton started at the Daily Mirror he found the usual chronic Fleet Street over-staffing , and began to swing the axe to enable the paper to stand on its own two feet and ward off the inevitable predators , such as Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet . |
| 17 | But , molly-coddled by the government for years , they may not be equipped to stand on their own two feet . |
| 18 | Yes , we 'll encourage people to stand on their own two feet , but we 'll also seek to aid those who for a variety of reasons need a bit of extra help . |
| 19 | At a stroke , family ties were disrupted : children found themselves , at an appallingly early age , having to stand on their own two feet in a strange and often hostile environment ; parents were suddenly deprived of their offspring . |
| 20 | Willi Elsener , a member of the 1992 Grand Final judging panel , believes that competitions such as Toque d'Or are an excellent way for students to both learn to stand on their own two feet and also work as a team . |
| 21 | It is ludicrous that the council should subsidise with public money , my money , your money , someone 's housing provision simp if they are quite able to stand on their own two feet . |
| 22 | Most universities welcome it , because it gives the student a chance to look at themselves afresh during that year off , to increase their experience , maybe for a chance to stand on their own two feet and travel or work somewhere else . |
| 23 | The children often struggle to stand on their own 2 feet . |
| 24 | He had thought that taking her away from her mother 's influence would have encouraged her to stand on her own two feet . |
| 25 | Standing , and slowly lowering her to stand on her own two feet , he stared down into her bewildered face before dropping a hard , swift kiss on her mouth . |
| 26 | I did n't have much faith in him when I first spoke to him , but apparently he told her to stand on her own two feet . |
| 27 | Tell him he 'll have to stand on his own two feet . ’ |
| 28 | This on reflection is what I think education is all about : not the mere acquisition of knowledge and passing of exams — though I thank you for your help in that area too — but the ability to stand on my own two feet intellectually . |
| 29 | She is 44 and believes that we have to learn to talk about our own ageing if we are to effectively link personal and social change . |
| 30 | We seem increasingly able to talk about sex , but wholly unable to talk about our own ageing and our feelings about it . |