Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many counties had drawn on their reserves to keep rate increases down in their own election year of 1989 . |
| 2 | It was with a certain amount of satisfaction that they settled down in their own kitchen and discussed their financial situation . |
| 3 | I du n no , as you say to see the culture things like that but it 's a bit difficult to put niggers down in their own country well what 's that then , is that , is that just the ferry between an island or something |
| 4 | Now whether Derry — and what looks like being a weakened Derry side , into the bargain — can overcome Down in their own back yard with so much at stake is another matter altogether . |
| 5 | They came down in their own time , after they 'd left off work , and they 'd have a small job done ; and then they 'd take it back ready for work the next morning . |
| 6 | His chosen vehicle is this great lather of a part-comedy , part-thriller , part exercise in rappin' and blasphemin' which lurches about before collapsing face down in its own vomit . |
| 7 | One balade , addressed to ‘ Maister Carpenter ’ , has come down in his own hand , with a marginal list showing that the poem , which is a begging letter , could be recycled , and addressed to a new recipient on each occasion . |
| 8 | No doubt the perfect solution is to fly down in your own plane . |
| 9 | you might think Ah there was a good point now put it down in your own words do n't copy |
| 10 | And as it seems impertinent to invite you to sit down in your own laboratory , I wo n't . |
| 11 | We actually put it down in our own manifesto because we thought it was a good idea . |
| 12 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
| 13 | So I was turned down in my own county town in favour of a stranger … |
| 14 | It took longer than anyone imagined but on Saturday , £4.6 million , 2,632 days and 360 senior matches later , the Red Red Robin was bobbing along in its own nest again . |
| 15 | Then a snowballing effect takes over , with the larger lumps able to grow larger still because their own gravity would attract other particles as they sweep along in their own orbit . |
| 16 | As an independent soul you usually prefer to plod along in your own time . |
| 17 | And you must have gone through in your own neighbourhood where you see papers sticking out of letter bo boxes , milk left on the front door step . |
| 18 | Spend half an hour today working through in your own mind those issues on which you " would resign ( on principle ) . |
| 19 | But if you just take those points er an and , and think them through in your own mind about how this system of government differs say from the British system of government and the position of local government in the British system , you can see that , well we do n't really have local government do we ? |
| 20 | In a survey reported in this week 's journal MORI interviewed 4000 people aged 30 and over in their own homes on behalf of the British Association for Continence Care ( p 832 ) . |
| 21 | The worshippers headed off in their own directions , and the ordered chequerboard shattered . |
| 22 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 23 | Daddy having recently popped it , my wife was comfortably off in her own right , and she did a deal by which , in exchange for her making no financial demands on me , I would make no attempt to see my daughters ever again : the corrupting influence was to be kept away . |
| 24 | Attacking a Steam Tank is very difficult — not the least because it can not be brought to hand-to-hand combat but will always move off in its own turn . |
| 25 | I was brought up in Albert Street near the Hibs ground , my whole family came from that area , my dad used to sneak into the ground at night to play football on the grass at Easter Road , and I got sent off in my own backyard . |
| 26 | If he started fiddling with it the way he fiddled with everything it could go off in his own face . |
| 27 | Yet many easterners complain that , since their revolutions began in 1989 , the Community has been too wrapped up in its own affairs to give them the attention they deserve . |
| 28 | And thus it was that when the day shift set off back to the Barracks that evening , Jackie Tiptoe remained behind , suspended from the ceiling like a crooked spider snarled up in its own web . |
| 29 | In contrast , the new novelists consider themselves first and foremost to be creative artists whose main obligation is to produce a well-crafted work of art that stands up in its own right as an autonomous reality . |
| 30 | It 's not my place to talk about her , anyway , but she is wrapped up in her own life , and her husband 's politics — she met him when she belonged to some very radical student group at Oxford . |