Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pron] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | If more than one LIFESPAN system is running simultaneously on a computer it will be necessary for each one to operate its own independent offline system using different media items . |
| 2 | The day after that they hired their own helicopter , landed in the local village , repossessed their wire , flew it back in and re-erected it . |
| 3 | Making overtures towards another who mirrored our own disquieting and long-buried Chinese identity was both a fearful and exciting prospect , and neither of us quite got up the nerve to take the initiative . |
| 4 | At the age of twenty-eight he established his own printing business . |
| 5 | Paul Marland is one of thousands who used his own personal wealth of at least a quarter of a million pounds to become a Lloyds name . |
| 6 | But relatives of those who died , including three who took their own lives are calling for a new , full and independent inquiry . |
| 7 | For those who grow their own tomatoes or can buy from the market when the fruit is cheap , here it is : |
| 8 | Well , this morning it 's our great pleasure to welcome three visitors to the session , one of whom I 'm not entirely sure is welcome because I understand that in fact he 's in some way a slight opposition in that he runs his own training course . |
| 9 | and you maybe miss something , from this you have your own , that 's right and its somebody else teaches you another angle then there 's possibility for ex , ex , expanding possibility |
| 10 | He was an eccentric individual , and in 1962–63 he opened his own museum in Provincetown , Cape Cod , in which he hung the Chrysler Collection . |
| 11 | After five years , Josiah was ready to set up in business on his own account , and in 1759 he established his own enterprise . |
| 12 | In 1715 he published his own writing rules , rigid and meticulous in form , entitled The Standard Rules of the Round and Round-text Hands . |
| 13 | At a meeting of the Royal Medical Society in 1860 he gave his own gloss on the prostitution debate . |
| 14 | But , even though in 1983 we have our own depression and the shadow of the bomb hangs over us , we seem to want to believe in astral goodies , cuddly ETs who , when we have close encounters with them , make us deeper , more meaningful beings through imbibing their goodness and wisdom . |
| 15 | In 1610 Witt joined with seven other London mathematicians in recommending a new book on accountancy and arithmetic , William Colson 's A General Tresury of Accounts for all Countries in Christendome , and in 1613 he published his own treatise , Arithmeticall Questions , touching the Buying or Exchange of Annuities , which demonstrated the utility of mathematical knowledge for men of business . |
| 16 | In 1990 I went my own way in setting-up the bike , instead of following [ Reinhold ] Roth 's way . |
| 17 | To this he adds his own more individual list of suspect conceptual categories : the subject , class , ideology , repression , the science/non-science distinction , as well as any general theory of society , causality , or of history itself . |
| 18 | Among those who owned their own homes the party trailed third behind the Conservatives and the Liberal/SDP Alliance . |
| 19 | It was a whole new experience , and at first it made my own feeling of being a fraud even more acute . |
| 20 | At last he had his own wheels . |
| 21 | By 1907 it had its own herdbook and numbered about 35,000 . |
| 22 | At 12 , Michael Green could read a balance sheet ; by 20 he had his own company . |