Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time I did see because he had uncannily identified one of my private sources of shame and voiced my own concomitant mantra . |
| 2 | He played with Louis Armstrong 's All Stars at the end of the 50s and led his own band at Eddie Condon 's in New York in the mid-60s . |
| 3 | He had forgotten this unofficial war and damned his own foolhardiness at not taking the matter into account . |
| 4 | He wanted footballers to have a respectable place in society , breaking away from their traditional cloth-cap image , and expected his own players to adopt respectable standards of dress and behaviour . |
| 5 | She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity . |
| 6 | Doug McGilvray , Weldex 's managing director , said that at a stroke , the move had removed its biggest competitor in Scotland and doubled its own crane-hire fleet . |
| 7 | In the evenings , after tea was cleared away and washed up and her aunt had tucked Victoria into her cot , Melanie sat in the kitchen and read her own old books . |
| 8 | But some of the branches apparently just like pinned it up , been quite happy to pin up the returned fax and then each consultant just gone and read his own bit . |
| 9 | Then she drew him up to her , and lowered her own head to take him in her mouth , her tongue darting out in tender forays at the base of his penis , stroking his belly with her hair as her teeth gently nibbled his manhood . |
| 10 | Then he caught Taheb 's eye and lowered his own with a slight cough . |
| 11 | It brought her four children who opened up the world for her and unlocked her own narrow viewpoint — though not enough , as events were to show . |
| 12 | Later that year the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Magazine quoted these results in full and announced its own competition : |
| 13 | He advertised his own brand of cigarettes and sold his own brand of whisky . |
| 14 | And made its own , especially one |
| 15 | She made her own chutney , and made her own pickles , even though she was at work . |
| 16 | She designed and made her own clothes , sometimes colouring the fabric with home-made dyes ; this gave the articles a most individual style and character . |
| 17 | She felt ashamed that she had left him and made her own escape . |
| 18 | In 1948 he moved to the ancient house of Daneway , near Sapperton , where he ground his own flour , baked his own bread and made his own paper on which to print his poems on his own press . |
| 19 | After eight years practising and perfecting he sent off for a plan and made his own Appalachian dulcimer — and it was better than the one he was given . |
| 20 | Corbett closed his eyes and made his own prayer , sending it up into the void . |
| 21 | As Simon Halliday is a fine footballer and made his own contribution with a try you can say that it was almost a perfect backline . |
| 22 | A year before his father avowed his change in faith , Cecil had journeyed to Rome and made his own profession of Catholicism . |
| 23 | Much to my surprise she agreed , on condition that we had separate rooms and made our own travel arrangements . |
| 24 | I went to them all and watched and listened and made my own judgements . |
| 25 | And those of us who could drive , collected passengers and appointed our own bus conductors . |
| 26 | Prime Minister Nicholas Brathwaite took over responsibility for Planning from Brizan and passed his own Information portfolio to Carlyle Glean , the Minister of Education , Culture , Youth Affairs and Sport . |
| 27 | He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life . |
| 28 | In some places the Afro-Caribbean community has composed Mass settings and produced its own hymn books . |
| 29 | Not to be outdone , Pentos also took the plunge and produced its own 48-page , fully illustrated catalogue for all its shops ( last year it took the PN catalogue . |
| 30 | At Wood 's request , he also substantially revised the RIC manual , first issued in 1866 , and produced his own The Irish Constable 's Guide , which was to become the Irish policeman 's Bible . |