Example sentences of "their [adv] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each scrap of news any one of them had about themselves or their immediate family — child , husband , dog , cat , Bendix dishwasher , a new dress or pair of shoes , the price of every article they bought — was as fascinating to each other as if it were their very own ; and any little thing out of Great Meadow was pure binding . |
| 2 | Now all the American TV networks are — surprise , surprise — preparing their very own satirical cartoon series with adult twists . |
| 3 | While most are displayed on benches , you 're just as likely to turn the corner on , say , a group of bathroom plants complete with bath , or shade-lovers in their very own north-facing living room . |
| 4 | Smaller children have their very own Mr Men menus , full of exciting , tasty dishes they love . |
| 5 | 13 Give children their very own Pet Pots from Vesutor , with a choice of plants for just £3.50 |
| 6 | Hundreds of children do , and they vie to fly on the eponymous aircraft ; their very own character plane from the pages of the Joey books . |
| 7 | When Edward Heath and the Conservatives took the country into membership , the Foreign Office officials regarded it as their very own special triumph . |
| 8 | If your drill and driver bits manage to hide in every nook and cranny of your tool box , and you can never find just the size you want , when you want it , perhaps it 's time you got organised , with a set of drill and driver bits in their very own case . |
| 9 | Children have their very own entertainers and a full programme keeping them occupied during the day and early evening ( During Season and Bank Holidays ) . |
| 10 | Too many groups of people , with mutually exclusive agendas , want him to be their very own president and remember him saying that he would be . |
| 11 | Back by popular demand , Same Sky 's Dance Band offers a Big Night Out to community groups who want to hold their very own Festival Party . |
| 12 | In summer they swam in the heated outdoor swimming pool , looked for frogs and newts , picnicked on the beach near their private hut at Brancaster and played in their very own tree house . |
| 13 | The judges , even in this , their very own field of creative endeavour , have accepted , in the interests of certainty , the self-denying ordinance of ‘ stare decisis , ’ the doctrine of binding precedent : and no doubt this judicially imposed limitation on judicial law-making has helped to maintain confidence in the certainty and evenhandedness of the law . |
| 14 | Although carefully coded , the Mods ' narcissistic flamboyance eventually transgressed the norms of the dominant culture and they became the objects of their very own custom-made moral panics . |
| 15 | All that the loyalists knew was that their very own Special Constabulary was going to be dismantled and that this had been one of NICRA 's long-standing demands . |
| 16 | New Zealanders hijacked the Chinese gooseberry as their very own Kiwi fruit . |
| 17 | One of the things that helped us over this difficult period was the fact that earlier that year the cutter crews had decided to form their very own association . |
| 18 | Their very own and golden city |
| 19 | This year a pet food manufacturer has issued all the exhibitors with their very own pooper scooper . |
| 20 | Under the watchful eye of their very own ringmaster , Matt Gosling , would-be Cocos can learn how to juggle , spin and cope with the embarrassment of failure . |
| 21 | Two lifelong movie addicts will see their dreams come true tonight when the doors open at their very own cinema . |
| 22 | High winds and high drama off the west coast put the lasers and the darts to the test … sailing craft that is … designed by a boat firm in Banbury … and taken to the limit in their very own National Championships . |
| 23 | Fuzzy Logic has 125 owners … all regulars at Prestbury Park and nearly all of them were in the paddock to see their very own horse getting ready for its first run … its trained by Nigel twiston Davies and his assitant Peter Scudamore |
| 24 | And if they keep on coming first past the post … they 'll be queuing one hundred deep for a place in the winners enclosure with their very own favourite |
| 25 | Fans of electronic games can now live their very own video war ! |
| 26 | ENGLAND are banking on their very own ‘ Mr Angry ’ to breathe some fire back into their Ashes attack . |