Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order . |
| 2 | BT which scrapped its own Talkabout service in 1988 is believed to take 30 to 40pc of the revenues for carrying the chatline call . |
| 3 | Minnie had written to her , a short and agonising note , penned with obvious difficulty , and she had replied at length , describing her — horror , Minnie , to hear of these floodings and most of all of the terrible pain which made my own insides contract in sympathy . |
| 4 | Her second children 's book , Carrots — Just a Little Boy ( 1876 ) , for instance , which depicted her own family and included an irascible father , was written with great sympathy from the point of view of a six-year-old . |
| 5 | Ten days after the inspection of the Musée Jacquemart-André , however , the Cour des Comptes caused further amazement by publishing a communiqué which contradicted its own inventory of April 1991 and simply ignored the one ordered by the instructing magistrate . |
| 6 | This feudal system was replaced by the capitalist mode of production , which created its own state system to serve the interests of the owners of the means of capitalist production . |
| 7 | Indian patronage was further divided by the intended destination in India , for military cadets were not appointed for service in India at large , but to a particular presidency , each of which maintained its own army . |
| 8 | Examples of underpresenting lots at Sotheby 's included lot 9 , ‘ Three figures at a table ’ by a follower of Caravaggio , which found its own price at £105,000 ( $168,000 , est. £20,000–30,000 ) ; lot 12 ‘ Christ in the house of Martha and Mary ’ by Vasari , ‘ the cheapest Vasari I 've ever seen ’ , was one comment , which made £9,000 ( $14,400 ) ; and lot 92 , ‘ The Annunciation ’ , a late work by Procaccini which made £92,000 ( $147,200 , est. £20,000–30,000 ) . |
| 9 | The only specific suggestion of their pro-Nazi sympathies was in the presence of a large radiogram which filled their own rooms , and — more irritatingly — those of their neighbours , with the music of Wagner . |
| 10 | To him , The Waste Land was primarily the desert of extinct emotion , which symbolized his own failure . |
| 11 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 12 | Foreign policy was , then , defined by the military in terms which served their own interests ; namely , the maintenance of the role and size of the armed forces in society . |
| 13 | Nelson Mandela 's lawyers on Jan. 25 made available to the press copies of a document , originally written by him in prison and given to the then President P. W. Botha in July 1989 , which expressed his own view of the urgent need for the government to negotiate with the ANC . |
| 14 | ( The Act did not apply to Scotland , which followed its own procedures for extensive housing renewal and had the show-piece of the Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal ( GEAR ) project to show for it ) . |
| 15 | Fujitsu was the only Japanese mainframer which developed its own technology from the outset , producing its first computer in 1954 . |
| 16 | She had to stand up in the midst of a certain amount of pomp and ceremony and address a large audience , which included her own family , her husband , the Prime Minister , the Lord Mayor and a host of City dignitaries , many of them accomplished public speakers themselves . |
| 17 | For those whose husbands had not yet returned , which included my own husband , it was a time of unhappy waiting . |
| 18 | This was denied by the Transkei authorities , which established their own inquiry . |
| 19 | In the event , however , the project occurred in neither of these areas : not in Barnet because the psychogeriatric service was still in the process of development ; nor in Southwark because , although there was an enormous amount of goodwill and enthusiasm for the project , the social services unions ( particularly the joint Home Helps Shop Stewards Committee ) decided that they could not endorse cooperation with the project , the main reason being that they felt — mistakenly in our view — that a project which employed its own carers might be a threat to the employment of local authority home helps , and that ‘ to endorse such a service is not helping the elderly in the long term , it is only carrying out this Government 's stratagem in closing Homes and hospitals ’ . |
| 20 | He was only too pleased to print , and to read , other men 's views which strengthened his own position . |
| 21 | In every Legion Regiment , the English-speaking people stuck together in tight groups , drinking together , socialising together and looking after each other ; Australians , South Africans and Canadians joined in with the club , which evolved its own codes of conduct and unspoken rules of behaviour . |
| 22 | In 1977 Caputo published the superb Rumour of War which documented his own combat experiences in Vietnam ; subsequent novels by Caputo revealed as much about his own problems in leaving Vietnam behind as anything else . |
| 23 | There entrepreneurs identified the existence of a seller 's market just waiting to be developed , and created their own demand , which gathered its own momentum and benefited from a snowball effect . |
| 24 | Any distribution of power could be only temporary and everyone involved knew it : a situation which brought its own tensions . |
| 25 | Any distribution of power could be only temporary and everyone involved knew it : a situation which brought its own tensions . |
| 26 | Being the first ashore was an honourable achievement which brought its own reward ; respectability was what Fastolf was claiming . |
| 27 | He was born in Kent , to a Durham family which possessed its own coat of arms . |
| 28 | He even figured as a forward ( in a frontal trio which also included one Bill McLaren ) in the Hawick seven which won their own tourney in 1948 . |
| 29 | As a result the military occupation zones because four distinct political entities , where each power pursued policies which reflected its own values , with the ‘ Sovietisation ’ of the economy in the East , the fostering of capitalism in the US zone and the encouragement of social democratic reforms in the British zone . |
| 30 | On matters where there are social inhibitions about declaring one 's most personal views or experiences , such as in sexual matters , family relationships , social class , religion and perhaps politics , it is obvious that informal interviewing could result in very selective discussions taking place from which the researcher would simply produce the sort of information which suited his own bias . |