Example sentences of "[pos pn] own [noun] of [noun] with " in BNC.

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1 They all had their own finger of dock with a greater or lesser craft .
2 Nowadays , many psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses visit GPs ' surgeries regularly to discuss how the GP and his team can best help their own group of patients with mental disorder .
3 For the North African church had long clung to its own traditions of autonomy with a tenacity which made it a power with which the emperors and popes had to reckon .
4 Camilla had been Charles 's girlfriend during his bachelor days and in Diana 's mind his continued friendship with Camilla presented a grave threat to her own chance of happiness with the Prince of Wales .
5 A classic instance of this is ‘ The Head-Ach ’ , in which she humorously compares her own writing of poetry with a friend 's gossip .
6 the listening skill of noting — behind the teacher 's breezy rejection of anything that looked to him like advice — his own sense of failure with a failing pupil ; i.e. understanding how one difficult situation ( failure for the pupil ) may be ‘ mirrored ’ in another ( failure for the teacher ) , with consequent reinforcement of the difficulty through re-enactment of the symptoms by the teacher
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