Example sentences of "[pron] own [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told there was n't one but was invited onto the executive where I could form my own women 's group . |
| 2 | I think part of it has to do with recognition — I remember listening to my own grandmother 's mysterious pronouncements — and part with a renewed sense of the strangeness of it . |
| 3 | My own company 's good enough for me . ’ |
| 4 | The rumour , therefore , was given time to breed and , for my own honour 's sake and for hers , I could do nothing , nothing , but endure it … ’ |
| 5 | My own child 's first ‘ word ’ was ‘ doidledoidledaddy ’ , a fact that rightly infuriated her mother . |
| 6 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 7 | When I examined my own horse 's stable I found only traces of hay . |
| 8 | In the strictness of my own father 's wisdom , he instilled into me a deep respect for the opposite sex , so that there was no physical play or caress with any women until after I had married my wife . |
| 9 | ‘ The sidh have not been seen in Ireland since my own father 's day , but they are still here , Fergus . |
| 10 | I felt just the same after my own mother 's death when my father mentioned her . |
| 11 | I am not a wealthy woman , Isabel , and my own mother 's hospital bills are draining my income . |
| 12 | With the grief , however , there was the joy of discovering mother love — and of rediscovering my own mother 's love for me . |
| 13 | My own mother 's bedroom was a bright white gallery fronted by an old Mexican balcony overflowing with fuchsia and courting pink wildflowers . |
| 14 | The masks eyes hid my own eye 's movement , just as a filter over the mouth would alter my voice when I spoke , in case anyone was using an audio pick-up with instant voice-print comparison . |
| 15 | For Lucas " It is our business to see that those we teach have the knowledge and understanding without which judgements of literature are impossible ; their judgements must remain their own affair 's . |
| 16 | It also seems that the mothers involved were usually very good judges of their own child 's character , and were often able to make accurate predictions concerning future behaviour . |
| 17 | One useful method of involving parents with their own child 's record of progress was tried out in the nursery school . |
| 18 | Similarly , restaurant management have wider responsibilities for building their own branch 's business than would the managers of most branded operations . |
| 19 | Since that time the productivity of the top 20 per cent of farmers has been sustained with a continuous record of technical improvement ; about 40 per cent have maintained a level of productivity which enables them to generate an acceptable income ; and a further 40 per cent have continued to produce enough for their own household 's subsistence requirements . |
| 20 | ‘ Thus , ’ as J. A. Burrow remarks , ‘ as Duke Humphrey 's guests worked their way through this very unpenitential fish banquet , they were invited to see in it the four courses of their own life 's feast . ’ |
| 21 | As for propaganda , well , half a century back , the Blitz generation did n't believe even their own government 's pronouncements half the time . |
| 22 | The answer is likely to be more predictable if they are continuously kept informed of what the head and governors are seeking from other local schools and how they assess their own school 's effectiveness . |
| 23 | The number of those less optimistic has fallen from 30 p.c. to 24 p.c. , while a significant 9 p.c. say they are uncertain about the outlook and four in 10 are uncertain about their own company 's prospects . |
| 24 | This is a code of conduct for directors of listed companies requiring them not to deal in their own company 's shares on short-term considerations or at a time when they are in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information . |
| 25 | Prior to the establishment of the Federation Cup by the ILTF ( now the ITF ) in 1962 , the former US player , Margaret du Pont , together with former Australian pro , Thelma Coyne Long and supported by the USTA , had drawn up plans for their own women 's international team competition and had even offered to donate a cup for the event . |
| 26 | Such women decided they could only begin to tackle their problems through their own women 's networks . |
| 27 | He encouraged Scots to appeal direct to himself against their own king 's judgements . |
| 28 | Wavebreaker was registered in the Channel Islands , and thus sailed under a defaced British red ensign with the Bahamian flag flying as a courtesy ensign from the main spreaders , but I always greeted arriving charter guests with their own country 's flag — though such a gesture was considered bad flag etiquette by nautical purists , it was good for our final tip — and so Thessy now hoisted the Stars and Stripes to the mainmast 's spreaders and a smaller Stars and Bars just beneath . |
| 29 | However , each National Board will wish to evolve re-entry programmes with their own country 's needs and priori-ties in mind , and this may be reflected in the modus operandi of individual boards , and the considerable amount of time and discussion which will no doubt take place in advance of reaching a UK wide agreement . |
| 30 | The Malaysians , in the process of razing their own country 's rainforests , have become world experts in the quick-timber business ; local problems in places such as Sarawak have suddenly expanded into international threats — and any country in the world with any tropical rainforests left is in danger of getting the full , ruthless Sarawak treatment . |