Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The withdrawal of earlier death has been so marked that today most English people will have no direct experience of the grief of bereavement until they lose their own parents , when they are themselves well into middle age . |
| 2 | But when older people form groups with the intention of becoming involved , or rather re-involved , in the wider social context , they raise their own self-image and the status of older people generally by showing society that they are full citizens who have to be reckoned with . |
| 3 | There are places where they eat their own children . |
| 4 | But they disprove their own argument with every thought , every word , every point of logic that they use . |
| 5 | Indeed , the key choice many managers now seem to be making is whether they develop their own system or buy one ‘ off the shelf ’ from several management consultants in the field . |
| 6 | Thereafter , managers are usually on their own and , inevitably , they develop their own theories to explain people 's behaviour . |
| 7 | They deny their own law , denying my right , and the precedent is there to stead them in the next encroachment . |
| 8 | Users are likely to be able to lead the process of innovation whenever they perceive their own needs more clearly than other firms do , and whenever they can appropriate most of the benefits from innovation . |
| 9 | Actually , er , as a point , if you find a client who goes hand-gliding , who goes stock car racing , do n't always assume that they 're going to be rated , you just submit it to the underwriters , and they make their own decision . |
| 10 | yeah , and they make their own , he 's got all the machinery and all , all the people they make their own pumps |
| 11 | They make their own Christmas cards , with the word ‘ SLUG ’ printed underneath a picture of Father Christmas . |
| 12 | They make their own glazes from finely ground rocks to recipes that they have developed over the years . |
| 13 | But this may also attract criticism from parents if they make their own comparisons about trends and innovations . |
| 14 | Like a lion with her cubs , they lick their own wounds and show little of themselves to outsiders . |
| 15 | Like a lion with her cubs , they lick their own wounds and show little of themselves to outsiders . |
| 16 | Each solicitor confirms that they hold their own client 's part of the contract in the agreed form ; agree forthwith to insert the agreed completion date . |
| 17 | Departments , including costume and design , have started to operate the system , in which they cost their own services and sell themselves to BBC programmes . |
| 18 | It claims that these lawyers are wrong , lacking in insight and perception , that they misconceive their own behaviour . |
| 19 | The latest tactic in the South African authorities ' battle with black squatters is to arrest the shack dwellers for trespassing and then offer to drop the charges provided they demolish their own homes . |
| 20 | Almost all the food is grown at camp ; they bake their own bread and the food is not only 100% nutritious but very delicious . |
| 21 | In the pits they did n't shut down they put their own breed of managers , under-managers and deputies … . |
| 22 | The walls are simply painted but they mix their own paint meticulously , experimenting until they get the colour just right . |
| 23 | They are of a different ethnic origin ( Sino-Tibetan ) , they speak their own languages and have their own culture and religions ( mainly Buddhist ) . |
| 24 | So surely if the government er , have , ca n't have the money they cut their own throat ? |
| 25 | They often eat weeds and weed seeds and their economy of intake is illustrated by the fact that they consume their own droppings . |
| 26 | In this respect , academic disciplinary cultures are no different ; they impose their own boundaries on what is acceptable from their adherents . |
| 27 | By this is meant that the invaders penetrate the cultural context of another group , whose wisdom , understanding and potential get ignored , as they impose their own view of the world upon the invaded and inhibit the expression of their creativity . |
| 28 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 29 | Thus ruling groups are likely to attempt to ‘ engineer the consent of the ruled ’ so that they accept their own subordination and disadvantage . |
| 30 | Once people overcome their fears about computers and begin to use them in telecottages , they acquire their own equipment . |