Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have a new partner , ’ he announced proudly , ‘ who sold his own tavern near the Barbican and moved across the river to be free from the prying of certain coroners ! ’ |
| 2 | A man who sported a sports car and sideboards , a season ticket and a sculpture teacher , a man who produced his own series and had a bachelor pad , a Peter Sarstedt LP and a past ? |
| 3 | THE story of Kelly Good , the 11-year-old girl who planned her own funeral when her heart and lung transplant failed , moved me to tears . |
| 4 | This was a small group of people who appointed their own chairman and secretary , and whose task was to see that the signs LADIES and GENTLEMEN were posted at all the appropriate places in the many buildings used by the conference . |
| 5 | At one time it was only an affluent few who owned their own houses or capital assets which they could invest to increase their incomes . |
| 6 | Among those who owned their own homes the party trailed third behind the Conservatives and the Liberal/SDP Alliance . |
| 7 | Women who made their own preserves were able to obtain extra sugar in lieu of their jam ration . |
| 8 | Some bands who made their own recordings took the opportunity to encourage others to follow their example . |
| 9 | I was sure they could hardly wait , but then to be fair to Fenella she was the only woman under fifty I knew in London who made her own damson jam . |
| 10 | He was adept with his hands , a talented artist , and a skilled fisherman who made his own flies and rods . |
| 11 | ‘ Jaz ’ was one of those people who got his own way . |
| 12 | The British Council abroad is bent on getting everything connected with British education and culture under its tyrannical control , and outsiders like myself who found their own positions without passing through the old-boy network and the rigid screening system of the Council were always given a hard time . |
| 13 | Lawrence and Aldous Huxley who created their own myth of a lost Etruscan Eden . |
| 14 | He was a highly stimulating person who was questioning of the mind , who created his own techniques and formed his own mode of expression unpressurized by fashion . |
| 15 | Royal control over the castellans of the Ile de France was relaxed by Eudes II of Blois , who created his own network of vassals among them ; in the same way , the dukes of Aquitaine attracted the lords of Parthenay to their court , though they were Angevin vassals . |
| 16 | Peter Wynne-Thomas , who created his own archive at Trent Bridge and is now the guardian of Nottinghamshire 's impressive library |
| 17 | I wonder if this fundamentally unimportant fact will linger as long in any mention of her as did the pillorying of Anthony Burgess as ‘ The Man Who Reviewed His Own Book ’ some 30 years ago . |
| 18 | The list of the champions is headed once again Bexhill-on-Sea , who beat their own record to win the Sir Thomas Pike Trophy with a net total of £28,497 . |
| 19 | It is the letter of a man who believed his own values were better than those of most others , but who wanted the reassurance of friendship , after which he strove a little officiously , for the fact that this was really so . |
| 20 | These figures range from Azam Khan , ‘ one of the chief nobles of the Empire ’ whose principal claim to fame is his vast harem and his insatiable appetites ( ‘ a pederast , he is also fond of beautiful girls … whenever he is informed of the availability of a lad or a fine wench he endeavours to be the buyer ’ ) ; through Taqi , ‘ one of the famous eunuchs and the ringleader of the conjurors of Hindustan ’ ( ‘ his house is the abode of delicate beauties , some as fair as the dawn while others are as dark as volatile passion ’ ) ; to great musicians such as the blind drummer Shah Nawaz who played his own stomach as if it was a tabla drum ; or the disgusting Surkhi , a glutton who ‘ snored and expectorated loudly ’ but whose horrible habits were overlooked by his hosts because of the unique beauty of his voice ( ‘ as melodious as a nightingale ’ ) , his brilliant mimicry and his ready wit . |
| 21 | Hear about the Wally who burned his own ear off ? |
| 22 | Their weapons were promptly snatched up by the Secte Rouge , who added their own shooting to the confusion . |
| 23 | To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school . |
| 24 | By sheer luck , Ron was able to breath in a tiny air-pocket formed by the rapids , until he was finally rescued by the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue team , who risked their own lives to save him . |
| 25 | ‘ She is a very brave girl , who disregarded her own safety and received serious injuries . ’ |
| 26 | His father was a California shaper and Richie was one of the few top ASP surfers who shaped his own boards . |
| 27 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |
| 28 | ‘ It is certainly true that in Western Ireland today you will hear those who say that in his teens William Joyce was a traitor who betrayed his own people to the Black and Tans . ’ |
| 29 | We have to thank the somewhat substantial conquests of that outstanding French general for a high degree of uniformity in some aspects of European law , for his armies were followed by another army of administrators who imposed their own type of law as well as order wherever they conquered . |
| 30 | Gedge met Peter Solowka at Hollin High and found someone who challenged his own definition of a swot . |