Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa slept like a stone in the big double bed — far comfier than her own bed at home — and awoke to find Emily already up and dressed , pulling on her green rubber wellies . |
| 2 | Furthermore , by broadening his own identity from leader of the London dissidents to leader of the whole French Resistance , internal as well as external , he remained , in a sense , bigger than his own organization . |
| 3 | Calder 's face was turning an incredible shade of pink — but it could not be any pinker than her own face ! |
| 4 | None the less , a number of children with severe learning difficulties are integrated into mainstream schools in groups younger than their own age . |
| 5 | It is hard to find a more pitiful sight than a clownfish desperately trying to associate with a shrunken unhealthy anemone a little larger than its own size . |
| 6 | The green imperial pigeon , uniquely among birds , can unhitch its lower beak and expand its mouth not only vertically but horizontally and swallow a nutmeg that is slightly larger than its own head . |
| 7 | Take all violence out of television drama and you disconnect it from reality , leaving it unable to portray anything deeper than its own bonds . |
| 8 | Eden himself became more emotional , first as he waited for Churchill to stop teasing and bow out of Number 10 Downing Street , and later as his own premiership became increasingly plagued with problems at home and abroad . |
| 9 | He often caught himself liking her better than his own girl-friend . |
| 10 | Continued financial pressure on the NHS has led many authorities to reduce their long stay provision or to buy places within the private sector , which are often cheaper than their own beds . |
| 11 | This system is quite successful , and the main eyes of the hunting spider , Portia , compete with those of some vertebrates , and produce an image only about six times poorer than our own eyes . |
| 12 | MdBs generally stand high in public esteem — higher than our own MPs — and half of them will have entered the Bundestag by way of party lists . |
| 13 | The freedoms threatened by the fatwa went far beyond his own freedom and the principles involved were greater than his own life or death . |