Example sentences of "own [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her position as expressed to me was that if the private sector wanted to use its own money for the tunnel then we should certainly not stand in the way . |
| 2 | We want our own money for the housework we do . |
| 3 | Sugar , who with his directors holds a 36% stake in the group , is stumping up £19.5m of his own money for the deal . |
| 4 | Many women saw a clear convergence of interests between their own struggle for the vote and purity pressure for legislation . |
| 5 | With the report writer you are totally free to use your own narrative for the row description — sales , gas , electricity , whatever . |
| 6 | If you 're complete beginners , active , familiar with camping or caravanning conditions , and two or you pay for our ‘ Introduction to Yachting ’ course in Nidri , then we know you 'll be safe to skipper your own yacht for the second week on flotilla . |
| 7 | I think the teachers did influence me a lot in their own enthusiasm for the subject ; it seemed to rub off on me , you know ; whenever they taught me something , a new concept or something , I 'd come away feeling enlightened by it , and wanting to know more , just this curiosity for more knowledge . |
| 8 | Scotland has its own framework for the encouragement of enterprise , investment and training ; its own education system which continues to excel , with more pupils leaving school better qualified and more going on to further and higher education ; its own health budgets which deliver high standards of care ; and its own glorious inheritance of buildings and countryside . |
| 9 | Now , in the very week Greenpeace urged us all to send postcards to Mr Scopes , the chief executive of ICI paints , to say , ‘ I wo n't buy Dulux paints until ICI stops des-troying the ozone layer ’ , Northampton borough council struck its own blow for the atmosphere . |
| 10 | Nonetheless these friends will be aware that the sufferer ultimately has to make his or her own way back to recovery and that " helpful " actions should not serve to enable the sufferer to continue the recovery-threatening attitudes or behaviour without organising his or her own responsibility for the consequences . |
| 11 | The Central Authority itself had to fix its own tariff for the bulk supply of electricity to the Boards and initially did well in reflecting costs by resisting pressure for ‘ postalisation ’ or charging a common national price . |
| 12 | If Bowe was faithful to his own script for the fight , relentlessly unloading huge rights behind his calling card jabs , it was Holyfield who set the agenda as far as courage , determination and work rate was concerned . |
| 13 | Somewhere , high in one of the elm trees , a lonely bird sang its own hymn for the dead . |
| 14 | By that time he had not only set in motion all the police retinue that attends on sudden and unexplained death , but also attended their ministrations throughout , seen the body examined , photographed , cased in its plastic shell and removed by ambulance to the forensic laboratory , delegated certain necessary duties , placated the police doctor and the pathologist , come to terms with the inevitable grief and rage which do not reach the headlines , and made dispositions within his own mind for the retribution which is so often aborted . |
| 15 | Now it did not even strike her as odd or ungracious that Jenny , after their long separation , should have no time for questions or interest about her sojourn in America or her journey home , and that she could not control her own unhappiness for the sake of welcoming back her sister . |
| 16 | He let them pass , acknowledged them barely , made the faint pretence that he had chosen this path by chance for a late afternoon walk , even gazed up at Skiddaw , and their gurgled laughter mixed in with his own longing for the gurgling of their necks to gape blood . |
| 17 | Crusaders were pinned back in their own half for the first 20 minutes as the visiting pack was dominant . |
| 18 | A subordinate should be responsible to his superior for achievements with delegated authority , but the superior in his turn remains responsible to his own boss for the achievements of his subordinates . |
| 19 | CAMRA has launched its own manifesto for the next General Election with policies to be presented to candidates of all parties for action in the next parliament . |
| 20 | Rev Jackson , who ran his own campaign for the Democratic nomination last time , remains America 's most influential black politician . |
| 21 | Both Bills would have preserved the deprave-and-corrupt test , significant in itself , but would have added a new test , sufficient in its own right for the work to be deemed obscene . |
| 22 | His pedigree may be long , but nevertheless here he is on piano and electronic keyboards leading his own band for the first time on disc with the driving drums of Jeff ‘ Tain ’ Watts ( also of Branford Marsalis group fame ) , Branford himself on tenor sax , Roderick Ward ( alto sax ) , Charnett Moffett , Chris McBridge , Robert Hurst or Andy Gonzales ( all alternating on bass ) , Jerry Gonzales ( percussion ) and on one track Steve Berrios and on two Don Alias ( both on drums , percussion ) . |
| 23 | The Parachute Regiment will retain one band with the merger of the Falkland and Pegasus Bands and the Army Air Corps will have its own band for the first time . |
| 24 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 25 | In 1990 they were halted 90 miles from the Pole by wide stretches of open water.Having already travelled more than 500 miles from their starting point in Siberia , they set a record anyway for the longest unsupported polar journey.Then Sir Ranulph abandoned the polar cold for the desert heat , to find Ubar , before again teaming up with Dr Stroud for this winter 's headline-making trek to the South Pole , breaking their own record for the longest unsupported polar journey ever made.They returned in February and Sir Ranulph still can not tolerate running shoes on his frost-bitten feet , to train for his next expedition — ‘ another hot one . ’ |
| 26 | PETER SCUDAMORE , who breaks records as easily as a psychotic disc jockey , was at it again yesterday , shattering his own mark for the fastest 50 winners by a National Hunt jockey when he rode In-Keeping to an easy victory at Wincanton . |
| 27 | The collective noun for each of these types is ‘ coffin' , but the trade maintained its own nomenclature for the constituent parts . |
| 28 | Her friend had paid a flying visit to Robbie 's home on the eve of her own departure for the Scillies and her new job , to say her goodbyes and hand over the key to her accommodation . |
| 29 | How to make your own pledge for the planet |
| 30 | Each leaf , with its own Pledge for the Planet will be pinned on a giant ‘ tree ’ which is to be put up outside the summit building in Rio de Janeiro . |