Example sentences of "own for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | The boy was going to the boxroom and was clearly excited at possessing a room of his own for the first time . |
2 | For , as Raymond Briggs once said , in Maus the cartoon book holds its own for the first time against all-comers as a literary medium . |
3 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
4 | I 'm glad you wo n't be on your own for the first night . |
5 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
6 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
7 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
8 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
9 | Leith spent the next few minutes in accepting that somehow she was going to have to pay her brother 's share of the hefty monthly repayment as well as her own for the next seven months minimum . |