Example sentences of "been [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her thin lip curled in a rare smile — one might say she had been pursuing her own studies . |
| 2 | Yeah , he would , I suppose he 's been eating his own toes all day |
| 3 | The HDZ government of Croatia had been building its own army : it had 35,000 police units of which 25,000 were in the reserves and 10,000 belong to special units . |
| 4 | It is capitalist , and everybody will , would 've been given their own land . |
| 5 | Another new boy , Nick Raynsford , has been given his own single room — an extremely prized possession , even among long-serving MPs — on the shadow cabinet corridor . |
| 6 | And says if he 'd been given his own psychiatric nurse … he would never have jumped off the train . |
| 7 | As a visual aid to quick and easy identification , each section in the prospectus has been assigned its own colour code . |
| 8 | Formed from the ashes of various small-time Amsterdam bands , BS had been minding their own business playing local gigs until a friend sent a demo to Gerard Cosloy at Matador Records in America — first home of Teenage Fanclub and currently Superchunk . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been minding my own business , ’ Midnight said curtly , putting his hand on Jess 's shoulder . |
| 10 | Part of his motive in undertaking to edit the Criterion had been to establish his own position within metropolitan culture and , since he had been a bank employee when he had begun the paper seventeen years before , in this he had triumphantly succeeded . |
| 11 | Amperif , a long-time player in the Unisys Corp storage subsystems business — it has not always enjoyed an easy relationship with Unisys — has been developing its own disk array product under the code-name Viking . |
| 12 | An important figure in the stimulation of James ' intellect , Constantine had been developing his own political ideas whilst residing in the industrial heartland of Lancashire , and he now requested James ' help in the formation of his autobiography . |
| 13 | And while it is BPX-GOM 's first third-party agreement to remotely operate and produce from a subsea gas well , the Offshore Division has been operating its own satellite gas well , High Island A-587 , since 1991 . |
| 14 | Ranulf knew his master had been scribbling his own memoranda , trying to make sense of the mystery which confronted them . |
| 15 | In between work on these sessions — and having just failed to squeeze in the Charlatans and Bob Geldof — he 's been releasing his own dance records under an assumed name and running his own record label , Foundation , for two years . |
| 16 | Yet we have already found in Chapter 2 that the UK has , relatively speaking , been suffering from declining international competitiveness as a place in which goods are actually made , though it has been holding its own in providing financial services on a world scale , and is prosperous enough , for example , to have a demand for hypermarkets on the international model . |
| 17 | Meanwhile Rob had been having his own separate grapple with dismal failure . |
| 18 | Shortly after the abolition of the CPRS , Professor George Jones noted : ‘ While she has been strengthening her own personal staff resources , she has weakened those at the disposal of her Cabinet colleagues for the performances of their collective deliberations by abolishing the CPRS . |
| 19 | I 've been doing my own story all afternoon , and I had to cover the opening of a new computerized diagnosis unit out at Barnet on my way back from the Sillick Memorial . ’ |
| 20 | Vets , like all those involved in promoting responsible ownership , want to encourage owners to have their pets neutered and , while many charities talk about trying to set up discount neutering schemes , vets have been running their own for years . |
| 21 | The Employment Department took the view that the TEC wrongly paid money to employers who had been running their own training schemes outside the Youth Training orbit ; this enabled the TEC to meet its government-imposed target of training weeks . |
| 22 | He had been running his own freelance investment fund with a few billion yen in assets . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , he could have been defending his own , ’ Theodora said . |
| 24 | And yet , they say , Earth 's temperature has remained stable , implying that life has been regulating the composition of gases , and the biota must have been controlling its own environment . |
| 25 | She 'd moved over into the makeup chair and had been studying her own face in the mirror . |
| 26 | In the mean time Dr Santiago Sequeira , the hospital 's director , has been fighting his own revolution , battling against incredible odds to humanize the physical environment of the hospital and improve the general quality of patient care . |
| 27 | What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ? |
| 28 | ( GUIL meanwhile has been resuming his own theme — looking out over the audience ) Free to move , speak , extemporise , and yet . |
| 29 | Competitors are even reported to have been digging their own wells to beat the water shortage in a bid to land a prize in the competition run in conjunction with the Royal Horticultural Society . |
| 30 | Check out day centres in your area : Canterbury 's Prince of Wales Youth Trust Day Centre has been organising its own Open Christmas scheme for the last two years . |