Example sentences of "made [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always keen to do things economically if I could , I 'd made my own jesses . |
| 2 | And then I would have made my own judgement about her death . |
| 3 | But , equally , I was ashamed not to have made my own way when I came back to London . |
| 4 | That 's made my own life so much easier . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's made her own bed . |
| 6 | Barbara , 60 , from Widnes , has always made her own clothes , originally to save cash and then out of habit . |
| 7 | Barbara ( 60 ) has always made her own clothes , originally through austerity and then out of habit . |
| 8 | Always more than a nepotistic afterthought , Brix had more musical input than The Fall could comfortably contain and now , after almost four years of intermittent solo action , she 's finally made her own album ( Spin This Web ) with her own group Adult Net . |
| 9 | Ironically , we heard through the grapevine that the Soviet government had made its own translation of the OECD report for circulation within a narrow circle of officials in the State Committee for Science and Technology ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Between January and May 1922 no money from any central agency was given to them , so they had to depend on the surplus of local revenues and gifts after the guberniia relief committee had made its own collections . |
| 12 | His three children have all made their own way in the world , preferring not to join the family firm . |
| 13 | Some of them actually made their own cameras , and even more strangely , used the cameras to project the films after they had made them . |
| 14 | She did not expect to see much of Liz and Alix , who had married and made their own lives after another pattern . |
| 15 | They are quite rightly upset and offended as they have usually made their own decisions and are going through with them . |
| 16 | It was therefore with great joy that most people in Britain greeted the recent news that three Beluga whales , which are closely related to dolphins , had made their own bid for freedom . |
| 17 | The established main roads that had been used for traffic between the medieval towns , and had made their own width with the usage of centuries , were generally left untouched by any parish awards . |
| 18 | the the some of them made their own shrouds . |
| 19 | " The neighbours were so impressed with Michael 's achievements that they have made their own garden into a mirror image of it . |
| 20 | Eduardo Mondlane found that African carvers in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Mozambique had made their own use of Christian themes imposed by priests and missionaries : |
| 21 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 22 | He had always expected it , and in any case while his ministers were busy looking for a wife for him he had already made his own choice . |
| 23 | And what has made his own life in this society so deeply pleasurable ( as he now sees , looking back on it ) is the difficulty of it , the opportunity it has offered to strive and overcome . |
| 24 | If he copies from another drawing in a book the translation from the three-dimensional plane to the two-dimensional drawing will have been done for him , so he will not have had to observe as carefully and think as much as he would have had to do if he had made his own translation . |
| 25 | He appears to have made his own luck and , despite setbacks such as presenting the short-lived TV quiz show Scruples , it looks as if Simon will continue to be a success . |
| 26 | He had made his own translations of one of the Psalms and Prayers of Cardinal John Fisher [ q.v. ] ( although his theological books show a Puritan tendency ) and of ‘ The Life and Death of Edward II ’ , and he had part of the original manuscript of the Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | And for Jack Henry Moore , who had made his own commitment to sexual politics by coming out years before , the subject was now part of his past . |
| 28 | My hon. Friend has made his own point with extreme clarity . |
| 29 | But Fairfax has made his own arrangements . |
| 30 | The Government Commission , set up by Labour in 1965 to circumvent the rest of the Civil Service , has been quietly declining under the Conservatives ; Heath has made his own arrangements to the same end , by setting up the Central Policy Review Staff , which has been housed by the Cabinet Office next door . |