Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | We each had to sit in our own chair . |
| 2 | Servants hurried around , to the shrieked orders of officials , and they had to tend to their own horses in the now emptying stables . |
| 3 | Well they got to court without a solicitor cos they were n't entitled to Legal Aid , and now you see that 's another thing , they 're both out of work , they were n't entitled to any Legal Aid , so they had to go on their own to court |
| 4 | I had to go on my own and ring the doorbell with an easel and canvas under my arm and I did n't know what to wear . |
| 5 | ‘ A couple of years ago we realised we had to invest in our own training programme , ’ said Ben Stocks , UK general manager and group marketing manager for the business , part of Courtaulds Coatings . |
| 6 | over every week for the groceries you see , had to stick to your own grocer did n't you ? |
| 7 | Erm Isaac Azimov writes er , rather amusingly about this , he says why did , why did Weismann bother , he said Weismann was Jewish , of course , Weismann knew that since time immemorial , er , Jewish little boys have been having their foreskins chopped off , Weismann only had to look at his own children , when they were born , to see that even Jewish little boys are born with foreskins . |
| 8 | We also had to look after our own ship , often plunging and breaking ropes alongside the larger vessels , prepare our own meals and keep the ship clean . |
| 9 | However , the farmer 's wife often had to deal on her own with callers and only 15% felt able to cope . |
| 10 | Just a merest glimpse at the trade papers reveals the extent to which from the start the movies had to fight against their own impulses and their own logic . |
| 11 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 12 | Then , police claim , someone took a shot at them , and they had to withdraw for their own safety . |
| 13 | He could see that Lee was attracted to Meryl , and this amused him , because he knew instinctively that he only had to turn on his own powerful charm and the result would be a foregone conclusion . |
| 14 | Toraja warriors had to die in their own " Rante " , or village circle , if their souls were successfully to return to the stars . |
| 15 | Members of Mongolia 's approximately 300 rural co-operatives had to decide on their own approach to privatization . |
| 16 | Hoddle says he had to think of his own future career . |
| 17 | We had to pay for our own training in those days . |
| 18 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 19 | The only window open was at the back , so I had to break into my own house through there , I managed it . |
| 20 | They would say whatever it was they had to say in their own time . |
| 21 | Dr Upshall said the other main parties gained funds from corporate finance but the Green Party had to rely on its own fund raising . |