Example sentences of "[pos pn] own [noun] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own preference has been made clear . |
| 2 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
| 3 | My own country has been a battleground for centuries . |
| 4 | Working within this international world it is , of course , a great help if one speaks several languages , but my own experience has been that it is not the ability to speak another language , rare enough this essential tool of international business is amongst British people , but the experience of having lived and worked with people in another country which is the decisive factor . |
| 5 | ‘ My own life has been very much marked by families and good relationships . ’ |
| 6 | It is true to say that the cars are largely restricted to three or four models , but my own insistence had been from the outset that no obligation to use the scheme should be imposed on the disabled , nor any obligation to a particular model . |
| 7 | My own copy has been printed and reduced for reference . |
| 8 | My first shot was ‘ Incomes policy and exchange rates ’ which rather reveals perhaps the track upon which I find my own mind has been running in recent months if not years . |
| 9 | The doctor , my own doctor has been very good and very kind and helpful , but er , I know of no other support group other than Crossroads , who help people like me . |
| 10 | At the same time , some women in the older generation believed that they were a less significant source of advice and support for their daughters than their own mothers had been for them , and all were concerned to ensure that their support did not amount to ‘ interference ’ ( Blaxter and Paterson , 1982 , especially pp. 174–9 ) . |
| 11 | We had intended to ask participants in our workshop to consider what the major constructive influences on their own teaching had been , whether training at college , advice from colleagues , intuitions from pupils or their own previous experience as learners . |
| 12 | The Weberian claim that the professions are able to act primarily in their own interests has been called into question . |
| 13 | But did the women really feel that their own work had been less important ? |
| 14 | Not only were they upset that some of their own work had been wasted but they appreciated the efforts their parents and teachers had put in to buy the equipment . |
| 15 | The symptoms are at their worst on preview nights when sufferers have an uncontrollable urge to rush round the exhibition , doing their best to display casual indifference , until their own work has been located . |
| 16 | The British had added grounds for resentment as the cinema of their own country had been largely eclipsed by that of Hollywood . |
| 17 | But the overwhelming majority of the palace 's clients when I was in the North-East were local men , and nearly half — the biggest single category — were there because their own homes had been disbanded . |
| 18 | The pool in their own garden had been filled in by her father five years before when her baby brother had drowned there ; but she loved to sit by cool water , inured to the stinging flies which gave people from the north so much trouble . |
| 19 | They had good reason to support Abram , since their own people had been victims of the attack . |
| 20 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |
| 21 | P S Your point about W Is owning their own halls has been noted . |
| 22 | External validation in PSHE has familiarized institutions with an evaluation process in which their own role has been largely confined to passively displaying data . |
| 23 | The FPR 's Radio Muhabura , on the other hand , carried the allegation on Sept. 6 that the Front 's positions had been attacked by government troops , and the FPR denied that its own forces had been on the offensive . |
| 24 | Many of its own people have been displaced by civil war or uprooted by drought or flood . |
| 25 | As a result of their continued advocacy , research for its own sake has been developed on an appreciable scale . |
| 26 | She had known that she was playing with fire , her own emotions had been awakened and she no longer trusted herself to be level-headed where Craig was concerned and yet was n't that half-fearful desire a challenge , a part of the fascination she felt for Craig Grenfell ? |
| 27 | She felt as if her own emotions had been tossed brutally into a whirlwind . |
| 28 | To be honest , she could n't really blame him if he did feel that way , though none of her own actions had been deliberate . |
| 29 | After her mother died in a car crash she was sent to live with an aunt , who was barely more welcoming than her own parents had been . |
| 30 | She was very much upset , for her own life had been ‘ smashed up ’ by the deaths of her brothers . |