Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company has not presented its own profit and loss account as permitted by section 230 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 2 | The parent company has not presented its own profit and loss account as permitted by Section 230 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 3 | She had not seen her own reflection since . |
| 4 | She was seized with panic , remembering that she had not seen her own face for so long . |
| 5 | Prior to the seventeenth century clocks in this country were made by blacksmiths , who were most reluctant to give up their trade , so clockmakers were not granted their own charter until 1631 . |
| 6 | Ford later said that the Jaguar-GM talks had not affected its own plans ‘ Today 's announcement does not affect our view in any way , and we still plan to acquire up to a 15 per cent holding in Jaguar , ’ said a Ford spokesman in Detroit . |
| 7 | ‘ A guide who has not encountered his own passions , his own inner conflicts , who does not truly know his darkness and his light , will be of no value in the spiritual battle . ’ |
| 8 | She had not abandoned her own efforts , but she had got Mrs Diggory to fetch up a couple of girls from the village . |
| 9 | But that can be granted only to a refugee who is seeking asylum on the ground that the Government might have administered a case improperly and not followed its own rules for processing refugees under a United Nations Convention . |
| 10 | She had been forced to admit to herself that Liza had not inherited her own fortitude and patience , which had helped her to nurse her future husband back to relative health in a Kent hospital after he had been wounded in the leg during the battle of Arras in 1918 . |
| 11 | But Mr Leonard 's injuries could have been much worse if a mystery middle-aged man had not risked his own safety and stopped the thugs ' attack . |
| 12 | The World Bank has subsequently identified this as a major weakness in the design of projects , but has not acknowledged its own role as the prime engineer of the approach . |
| 13 | Some time later Philip wrote to say that , although he had not put his own name forward for consideration , he himself had been invited to be the official biographer and had accepted . |
| 14 | Of many cup-painters the greatest , perhaps , with Onesimos , is one who worked regularly with a potter Brygos but has not left his own name , so the Brygos Painter . |
| 15 | People who fall into this habit often have a weak sense of identity and have felt very taken over as children , not allowed their own thoughts and feelings , nor to be themselves . |
| 16 | She is not allowed her own story , her version is by definition a retroversion , an imperfect , displaced version that appears in the wrong place in the mirror . |
| 17 | Ken 's reply was that , if His Majesty had not neglected his own duty of being present , his enemies would have missed this opportunity of accusing him . |