Example sentences of "own [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The participatory nature of the project has since been copied by other groups in different parts of the USA and many of the original participants have helped to encourage and train new people in other areas of their own states to find out more about ownership patterns in their home areas Highlander has responded to calls from other groups , and has acted as a clearing house for information and to make connections between interested parties . |
| 2 | All told , 22 ministers — about a quarter of the Government — have been replaced , either as a result of their own decision to stand down , losing their seats in Thursday 's general election or being asked by Mr Major to relinquish their posts . |
| 3 | The weapons bay is too small to accommodate much of a bomb : it is designed to take the AMRAAM , a new air-to-air missile that uses its own radar to hunt down and destroy enemy aircraft . |
| 4 | Archbishop Theodore [ q.v. ] confirmed these changes , which fell in neatly with his own plans to break up unmanageably large tribal dioceses . |
| 5 | Of course , erm there 's a lot more individual responsibility is needed than that , but it 's too simplistic to say that that erm to smile upon these people who have problems would solve everything erm but erm to make it your own responsibility to find out more and to find out the ways in which you can help I think is very important and is everybody 's responsibility . |
| 6 | For this reason , our holiday prices are aimed to entice those who usually fly or use their own car to travel on superbly comfortable coaches as the means of reaching resorts and regions where tourism has not exceeded sustainable levels . |
| 7 | Technology is making its own bid to shoulder out the financial middleman |
| 8 | Quiet , insensitive and inhuman , modern technology is making its own bid to shoulder out the financial middleman . |
| 9 | Use your own artillery to soften up the enemy units that you wish to attack . |
| 10 | The two volumes of her so-called biography were received unenthusiastically by reviewers who could not know the extent to which it was Hardy 's own attempt to sum up his views on lifelong preoccupations such as the nature of art , life , and man 's cruelty to man and the other animals . |
| 11 | But now we are all individuals with our own self-fulfilment to worry about . |
| 12 | Sometimes a single son or daughter will give up their own home to come back and care for parents . |
| 13 | ‘ If we get one , we 'll have two bedrooms , so I 'll have me own window to look out of . |
| 14 | He was shown unpublished essays and given his own room to work in . |
| 15 | And then he withdrew , closing the door after him , and went to his own room to stretch out for a while . |
| 16 | Before Cook 's tours of Egypt , Victorian travellers hired their own boats to travel up the Nile . |
| 17 | I can almost hear Riva chewing on the inside of her own cheek to keep back the laughter . |
| 18 | Though Chris is the play 's voice of conscience , he is , ultimately , a rather quavery one : Miller never confronts him with his own reluctance to grow up , his willing collaboration with a domineering father and a mother who ignores him to worship her dead son . |
| 19 | I 've got a feeling that the Author is waiting all the time in that house in the woods for His own character to turn up . ’ |
| 20 | However , it looks like IXI may have to get down into the water to try and tickle this baby out of the flow , as DEC has its own problems to iron out . |
| 21 | We 've consulted the leading names in the motor industry and racked our own brains to come up with the definitive answer to one of the ultimate pub arguments . |
| 22 | Unusual , perhaps , tiresome to his office — but if the strange behaviour at which his daughter had hinted was really a sort of battiness , the office would have made its own arrangements to get by . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's so sad because he 's so quick , so experienced and he is the guy who made me raise my own game to come out of the blocks ahead of him . ’ |
| 24 | My own appointment to sort out persistent period pains ended abruptly when I was asked to point to my kidneys . |
| 25 | He concludes that the effectiveness of a given system should be based on its ability to fit in with the external systems making up its environment on the one hand , and , on the other hand , on its competence in allowing its own sub-systems to fit in with each other . |
| 26 | He found at the edge of his consciousness the wish that he was just going to his own flat to crash out rather than back to share Catherine 's warm bed . |
| 27 | However , the success of recent policy initiatives can only be fully met if farmers find it their own interests to plant up pieces of land in such a way as to achieve both timber production and environmental improvement . |
| 28 | He seemed suddenly to hear his own call to wake up before it was too late . |
| 29 | As Selwyn had been founded to commemorate the great Bishop of Melanesia it seemed appropriate that the college should make Melanesia its special interest and perhaps in time raise enough money to pay one of its own men to go out and serve as priest and educationist in that diocese of so many islands . |
| 30 | Sir Hector , who will have his own form to fill in as a farmer in Dumfriesshire , says in the letter : ‘ I recognise that many of you will be fed up at the prospect of yet more literature and more form filling . |