Example sentences of "own at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her own at the till , Rachaela removed the extra pound and kept it . |
| 2 | line of type on its own at the top or bottom of a page . |
| 3 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 4 | But I remembered her asking whether I did n't go crazy on my own at The Pightle . |
| 5 | booking on his own at the moment , three hundred pounds on bookings he 's got , coming up in the next three weeks |
| 6 | She had dreaded the moment when the food would be done with and the others would get up to dance , leaving her on her own at the table . |
| 7 | I was training on my own at the time , and seemed to be constantly injured , so I was n't racing much . |
| 8 | it 's alright when it 's your own at the time because well it 's , it 's different , when there 's another one there , I mean it , it wears you out so |
| 9 | Its Studio Theatre has a life of its own at the forefront of creative theatre . |
| 10 | At first sight , this seems to be an attractive move : holding hearings behind closed doors has led to accusations that the Institute is protecting its own at the expense of the public interest . |
| 11 | The letter concluded : ‘ Convinced Nazis who are really inwardly certain of our final victory do n't seem to be too plentiful even among people who have otherwise courageously held their own at the Front . |
| 12 | I shall be gone , but you will have to live with the consequences , and no more passing off my stuff as your own at the office . |
| 13 | Pont , who became an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects , came into his own at the outbreak of war in 1939 . |
| 14 | It was all in legal gobbledegook and took a bit of working out but Lord Chatwin had added some words of his own at the end : ‘ If my beloved Spiggy is found everything goes to him and his heirs . ’ |
| 15 | We 've got one on her own at the end there , so . |