Example sentences of "in [pos pn] own [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my own garden the twisted hazel , Corylus avellana ‘ Contorta ’ , is underplanted with primroses , bluebells and wood anemones , for that is how I remember them growing , as they still do , along the banks of the rive Greta . |
| 2 | IT SEEMS that even in its own time the thirteenth-century motet was considered by many to be a sophisticated , subtle genre , only likely to appeal to the literati . |
| 3 | Deliberately he walked into the minefield , triggering off every mine and thus absorbing in his own body the entire explosion . |
| 4 | To his first speech to Parliament , on 18 November 1760 , the king added in his own hand the robust declaration : ‘ Born and educated in this country , I glory in the name of Britain . ’ |
| 5 | By clarifying in your own mind the exact nature of these positions you can enter into bargaining with much greater confidence . |