Example sentences of "own [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To you , it doubtless seems as ‘ unnatural ’ as ripping out your own heart with a mechanical claw . |
| 2 | The words glided over her , flowing into her very being , seeping into her own heart with a cruel accuracy . |
| 3 | Even in their own computer in a context-free grammar no general procedure exists for determining whether the grammar can be ambiguous in any one of every single case , however long one ran the program . |
| 4 | This observation is necessary not because the lines quoted are of great importance to her poetry , but to give a balanced view of her own conflicts as a domestic servant . |
| 5 | It then glues these thin twigs to a wall using its own saliva as a fixative . |
| 6 | THE attractions of personal pensions has been enhanced by a change in the rules allowing individuals to manage their own investments within a personal pension plan . |
| 7 | Today , Japan sees the whale issue as another example of the West imposing its own values on a vulnerable country . |
| 8 | At Warwick last Saturday , Storm Alert confirmed himself a horse to follow with another impressive success , and at Newbury tomorrow stablemate Country Member can sustain his own progress with a win in the Lionel Vick Handicap Chase . |
| 9 | now at the end of the day , whatever your own views about a contingency fund are , bearing in mind that it 's service , not management charged , if the residence do n't agree can you simply dictate to them that they 've got to have a contingency fund ? |
| 10 | I think ‘ deconstructing ’ is the right word for Muriel Gray because she 's quite spiky ; she 's very clear about her own views as a Scottish Nationalist and as a feminist ; she 's unconventionally dressed and she did ‘ deconstruct ’ television very effectively , albeit often quite didactically , on The Media Show . |
| 11 | Again these changes would not enable a requesting State to impose its own views on a requested State . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) In seeking to explain the unusual course the case had taken , the judge gave excessive expression to his own views in a manner which , although critical of the prosecution , was hostile to the defence . |
| 13 | The Shans and Kachins claimed their own states within a Union of Burma : this was accepted . |
| 14 | Try writing your own story about a person who is ordinary except for one special quality . |
| 15 | It is not the function of a judge to use his own expertise in a given area outside the law and the administration of justice . |
| 16 | They want to be degraded by the system and die in a pool of their own vomit in a motel , where rooms are rented by the hour to cowboys . |
| 17 | He has since died a sad death at Saigon , choked in his own vomit after a bout of energetic drinking . |
| 18 | He 'd choked on his own vomit after a session of sniffing aerosols . |
| 19 | Doctor Bailey , and later Doctor Lovell , remonstrated in vain about a diet of beer , pickled onions , pork pie and cold sausages , occasionally varied by Albert 's own cooking in a disgusting frying pan when the spirit moved him . |
| 20 | There has also been a strong movement to introduce the craft of writing into the curriculum , so pupils can create their own meanings in a variety of forms . |
| 21 | ( Incidentally if budding authors are happy to type their own scripts on a word processor , that would usually be helpful . |
| 22 | He defines his own faith by a passionate anger against Gide the Luciferian . |
| 23 | The duchess , recalling her own upbringing amidst a lively brood of brothers and sisters , recognized this , and was gratified by the devotion and closeness that had grown up between the girls . |
| 24 | For men like these a university education would have been unthinkable a few years earlier , but in 1920 Burma obtained its own university on a campus outside Rangoon . |
| 25 | This argument takes one of two forms depending upon the outlook of its proponent : either it is said that Europe must look to her own defence as a consequence of the American disengagement ; alternatively it is argued that Europe ought in principle to defend herself , so as to speed the departure of the US troops and be free of American ‘ domination ’ . |
| 26 | In 1958 it seems that Eisenhower also hoped that his generosity in the nuclear field might encourage the British to transfer resources from their own programmes to a renewed conventional build-up . |
| 27 | Hand-outs to the poor will merely reduce the pressure for such change and are particularly pernicious if they are given by the rich , who are in effect purchasing their own privilege at a small price . |
| 28 | His own experience of a year living with the Dowayo people in Cameroon is told differently . |
| 29 | Mother 's own experience as a child had taught her to be self-sufficient and she needed a lot of support and practice at learning how to meet Maria 's emotional and social needs . |
| 30 | There is a close link between my own experience as a learner and the experience of my pupils . |