Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Orient was , moreover a mirror in which Europe ( and subsequently America ) could see reflected its own supremacy . |
| 2 | It will already have been familiar to him , and he will have formed his own conclusions long ago . |
| 3 | He might well have formed his own opinion but he knew that would not bear cross-examination at some later date . |
| 4 | And afterwards — no-one could possibly have heard her own conversation with Dominic . |
| 5 | ‘ She should have developed her own style . ’ |
| 6 | Equally , each organization will have developed its own sense of its tasks mission and role in relation to others . |
| 7 | By the time they reach the secondary school , the majority of children will have developed their own style of handwriting . |
| 8 | Perhaps I might have recognized my own hypocrisy , if it had not been for Richard 's behaviour in the next months . |
| 9 | Thereafter , as many as a dozen other females will have added their own babies to the creche in the tunnel in the same way . |
| 10 | Bush should have trusted his own misgivings about attending the dinner , confessing he knew it would be ‘ something sorrowful and sad ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ If I 'd known Kelly could n't come , I 'd have cancelled my own trip . ’ |
| 12 | Drawn into the shouting clamour she would have forgotten her own danger if the Battle had n't taken a sudden change of fortune . |
| 13 | In time she might even have threatened your own position . |
| 14 | Huy was still not sure how he would have answered his own question . |
| 15 | Unusual , perhaps , tiresome to his office — but if the strange behaviour at which his daughter had hinted was really a sort of battiness , the office would have made its own arrangements to get by . |
| 16 | And then I would have made my own judgement about her death . |
| 17 | No doubt the Duchess , like George Eliot 's readers , would have possessed her own copy of Dorothea 's sourcebook : ‘ I have been examining all the plans for cottages in Loudon 's book , and picked out what seem the best things , ’ she tells Sir James . |
| 18 | ‘ I wish we could have used our own people to babysit Mobuto . |
| 19 | ‘ As I said to Sergei back at the hotel , I only wish we could have used our own people to babysit Mobuto . |
| 20 | ‘ The kinema might just have had its own generator . ’ |
| 21 | The Agii Theodhori shipyard and port may have served Knossos or Mallia , or it may have had its own hinterland on the boundary of the two major territories . |
| 22 | I mean everybody knew what was going on , they might have had their own interpretations of what they 'd been told , but that happens , and as I said you know , every decision was voted on by the full lodge of the three quarries . |
| 23 | Some of these centres clearly had separate names at one time and some must have had their own churches . |
| 24 | ‘ If it had been called hundred and twelve we 'd have had our own lavatory . ’ |
| 25 | UNTIL now , you might not have recognised your own home if you had read its description in an estate agent 's particulars . |
| 26 | But Guy would have staked his own soul on the fact that Isabel had never lain with a man . |
| 27 | The result is that all Home Secretaries are grossly over-worked , although most will have found their own ways of keeping their heads above water . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , third parties need to be alert to the dynamism of an organisation and realise it might have generated its own practices and activities , which need not necessarily be encompassed by the constitutive treaty . |
| 29 | The intelligentsia may not have been insincere , they may have believed their own rhetoric . |
| 30 | And Phil Oakey must have eaten his own fringe when he heard what they 'd done to his malevolently provincial classic ‘ Do n't You Want Me ’ . |