Example sentences of "[pron] own [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own choice for the single most influential factor would be the decision of the Hungarian Government to subordinate its very clear obligations under an agreement with the GDR to its general duty under the Helsinki Final Act of 1975 — a decision which blew a hole in the sealed frontiers of the GDR , and relegated to the past the comfortable slogans of the last three decades . |
| 2 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 3 | spoken with unbecoming censure respecting the works of cotemporary architects , and somewhat boastfully of my own design for the building under consideration . |
| 4 | So too does its preoccupation with the shadow of death , looming in their own generation for the first time . |
| 5 | Many women saw a clear convergence of interests between their own struggle for the vote and purity pressure for legislation . |
| 6 | The lights flickered on and off , illuminating others bustling back and forth , too busy in their own rush for the exits to bother with the intruders . |
| 7 | His revelation touched a nerve among viewers , many of whom phoned in to say how his courage had helped them admit their own problem for the first time . |
| 8 | I think the teachers did influence me a lot in their own enthusiasm for the subject ; it seemed to rub off on me , you know ; whenever they taught me something , a new concept or something , I 'd come away feeling enlightened by it , and wanting to know more , just this curiosity for more knowledge . |
| 9 | While the ARC cooks were emptying crabs and boning racks of lamb , five girls were involved in their own competition for the espoir , the most promising young cook . |
| 10 | He and this other chap , a rather nice English fellow called Theo Sykes , each had their own candidate for the job when the previous master , Lorimer , retired . |
| 11 | The power to choose , the power to choose , well if the power to choose in politics is about the Labour Party choosing their own candidate for the by-election and then the National Party replacing that candidate , well that 's a Party I do n't want to be a party to and that 's nothing that we would ever stoop |
| 12 | Crusaders were pinned back in their own half for the first 20 minutes as the visiting pack was dominant . |
| 13 | On land , and in particular in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland , this was certainly not in the well-known form of lime juice , as the Gaels applied their own wisdom for the prevention of the disease . |
| 14 | The hotel staff had been firmly relegated to a very small part of their own domain for the preparation of luncheon and would thereafter be merely onlookers , apart from serving the food to the hoi polloi of the guests this evening , while Auguste and his pupils served the Prince of Wales 's table . |
| 15 | In 1990 they were halted 90 miles from the Pole by wide stretches of open water.Having already travelled more than 500 miles from their starting point in Siberia , they set a record anyway for the longest unsupported polar journey.Then Sir Ranulph abandoned the polar cold for the desert heat , to find Ubar , before again teaming up with Dr Stroud for this winter 's headline-making trek to the South Pole , breaking their own record for the longest unsupported polar journey ever made.They returned in February and Sir Ranulph still can not tolerate running shoes on his frost-bitten feet , to train for his next expedition — ‘ another hot one . ’ |
| 16 | The fog continued to enclose them in their own world for the whole of the next day , deadening all sound outside so that it seemed as if everything was hushed and waiting . |
| 17 | These pressures are much greater among the young who are attempting to find their own accommodation for the first time . |
| 18 | Party managers arrived at that conclusion because that is the way they had treated their own party for the past eight years . |
| 19 | Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour . |
| 20 | The problem was not helped by each lab having its own preference for the indicator to be used with sodium carbonate . |
| 21 | Each leaf , with its own Pledge for the Planet will be pinned on a giant ‘ tree ’ which is to be put up outside the summit building in Rio de Janeiro . |
| 22 | Now , in the very week Greenpeace urged us all to send postcards to Mr Scopes , the chief executive of ICI paints , to say , ‘ I wo n't buy Dulux paints until ICI stops des-troying the ozone layer ’ , Northampton borough council struck its own blow for the atmosphere . |
| 23 | In that case an aggressive demand defeats its own purpose for the use of aggression to ensure compliance suggests that compliance is not really expected . |
| 24 | Her position as expressed to me was that if the private sector wanted to use its own money for the tunnel then we should certainly not stand in the way . |
| 25 | Scotland has its own framework for the encouragement of enterprise , investment and training ; its own education system which continues to excel , with more pupils leaving school better qualified and more going on to further and higher education ; its own health budgets which deliver high standards of care ; and its own glorious inheritance of buildings and countryside . |
| 26 | The collective noun for each of these types is ‘ coffin' , but the trade maintained its own nomenclature for the constituent parts . |
| 27 | CAMRA has launched its own manifesto for the next General Election with policies to be presented to candidates of all parties for action in the next parliament . |
| 28 | TVR surprised the world with the exciting new Chimaera and a V8 of its own design for the stunning Griffith |
| 29 | But feminism never prescribes its own politics for the inhabitants . |
| 30 | ‘ Give me a child at seven , ’ he 'd mock , ‘ and I 'll fill its head with so much gibberish and superstition I 'll have it scared of its own shadow for the rest of its life . ’ |