Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 2 | Cumulatively the features we have examined represent the world of a child surrounded and overawed by dimly grasped presences , a world in which the meanings which shape our own response to life are dissolved and reconstituted . |
| 3 | So surely if the government er , have , ca n't have the money they cut their own throat ? |
| 4 | Even on the field he had his own personal trademark — flapping shirt sleeves and long , baggy shorts , which served both as a landmark for his colleagues and to help keep out the cold he felt so badly . |
| 5 | We all see things differently , according to the karmas which determine our own personal mind set . |
| 6 | In the case of mythology the saga teller will always produce a version of the story which puts his own ancestors in a particularly favourable light . |
| 7 | Hear about the Wally who burned his own ear off ? |
| 8 | Melchiori in one place actually describes ‘ the I ’ as being ‘ the poet who voices his own feelings ’ , and says that the absence of the I form in some sonnets ‘ is an impediment to the dialogue , to the theatrical quality ’ , which he describes in disappointingly literal terms : ‘ Normally in Shakespeare 's Sonnets we find a truly dramatic dialogue between two characters : the persona of the poet himself ( the speaking I , not the man William Shakespeare ) ’ — a welcome disclaimer ! — ‘ and a ‘ you ’ , the actor playing the role of a lovely boy , a worthy or unworthy mistress , possibly a rival poet' . |
| 9 | In contrast to an institute such as the Courtauld which offers its own degrees , the courses at the new centre will be run independently by the various departments of the Parisian and provincial universities which have , in the past , offered courses in the relevant subjects . |
| 10 | To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school . |
| 11 | Just at the moment she had her own anxieties without being expected to worry about other people 's . |
| 12 | What was happening in Europe whilst this was happening cos that 's after the war they had their own development and they developed a different type of machine called a flat machine . |
| 13 | Helen Gardner was aware of the problem , observing that the pursuit of image patterns , or of the ideas in a poem , can be useful to the interpreter , but can not ‘ be more than auxiliary in leading us to the true ‘ meaning' ’ of the work , which is the meaning which enlarges our own imaginative life . ’ |
| 14 | In reality the costs would be very similar as the banks themselves cover their own forward contract exposures through money market operations in the various currencies involved . |
| 15 | yeah , and they make their own , he 's got all the machinery and all , all the people they make their own pumps |
| 16 | The insider who studies his own society is really the ‘ anthropologist at home ’ and he can not move away . |
| 17 | Coverage of all kinds can be both favourable and unfavourable — no matter whether politicians are in government or in opposition — and politicians themselves must bear the prime responsibility for ensuring that when they do get access to the media they present their own case well . |
| 18 | Once they were on the road they had their own coach , staying a day or half a day in each town . |
| 19 | As with other contributors , exaggerated claims are made for détournement ( the communication which contains its own critique ) , firstly because it was an inheritance from Cubism and Dada , and secondly , because , as the exhibition shows , its deployment by ‘ pro-situs ’ has made of it a commonplace , popularised in punk fanzines , and ‘ Biff ’ postcards etc . |
| 20 | The Jessamy who knew her own worth ; who knew she was going to lead her own life , instead of always trying to do what others wanted and expected of her . |
| 21 | I wonder if this fundamentally unimportant fact will linger as long in any mention of her as did the pillorying of Anthony Burgess as ‘ The Man Who Reviewed His Own Book ’ some 30 years ago . |
| 22 | During the ensuing eight centuries they recognised , at different times , the suzerainty of the Byzantine , Habsburg and Serbian emperors , the King of Hungary , the Doge of Venice and the Sultan of Turkey , but in the main they kept their own internal self-government . |
| 23 | You bring your children up , you do your best , but in the end they go their own way . ’ |
| 24 | But each enterprise also wants government to be flexible , to discriminate in its favour ; and for itself wants to be free to take advantage of any shifts in the factors which improve its own bargaining power . |
| 25 | Instead , all extrapolations should be , and indeed usually are , considered to be working hypotheses that guide the way we study our own brains . |
| 26 | It is perhaps too idealistic to suggest that the process of ageing should be dealt with during childhood , but it is certainly during these years that the basis of ageism becomes rooted in us and thereafter affects the way we approach our own old age . |
| 27 | They 'd probably be appalled by the way we view our own material , ’ says Honest John . |
| 28 | FOUR young pigs set sail for the Falklands last month and to make sure they did n't get hungry on the way they took their own feed with them . |
| 29 | Many step-parents feel guilty for not loving their step-children in the way they do their own . |
| 30 | I 'd called it that all my life so why should they try to force me to change the way I speak my own language ? |