Example sentences of "[pos pn] own [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not begrudge Wilson this , since I had no wish for my own part to be revealed , but for some reason best known to himself he decided that he would at least claim the credit for having found me . |
| 2 | It was a whole new experience , and at first it made my own feeling of being a fraud even more acute . |
| 3 | At first I would go for short walks , lasting perhaps half an hour , and then return to bed sufficiently impressed with my own daring to be able to relax into sleep . |
| 4 | There is still the missing ingredient of ‘ power ’ : the nature of the replicators must somehow have influenced their own likelihood of being replicated . |
| 5 | Remember that this means any kind of influence affecting their own likelihood of being propagated . |
| 6 | The passengers made their own way after being taken back to New Street station . |
| 7 | A classless society would no doubt constitute subjects who ( like Miss Beale and Miss Buss ) , would be different from us , but they would be constituted nonetheless , and could not know that their own conviction of being unexploited was not mistaken . |
| 8 | The latter symptom , common among individualists , manifests itself as a refusal to acknowledge the problem : while seeking to defend complex theoretical claims , individualists frequently take the intuitive truth of their own doctrine to be so overwhelmingly obvious that its opponents scarcely need to be taken seriously . |
| 9 | The main themes which appeared to make the case newsworthy were firstly , a gang rape ; secondly , a racial theme , since the newspapers clearly identified the rapists as black and the girls as white in both words and pictures ; thirdly , controversy over the sentencing being ‘ too light ’ ; fourthly , controversy as to whether the girls could be held to have contributed to their own rape by being out at night . |
| 10 | Today the Royals can not relax for a second , can not step one foot outside their own home without being met by a barrage of photographers waiting for them to make the smallest slip . |
| 11 | In his classic book The Prophets , Abraham Heschel has shown that Amos , Hosea , Jeremiah and Isaiah all considered their own input to be a crucial part of their message . |
| 12 | Men surrounded them , asking questions , full of their own tale to be told . |
| 13 | Men displaced their own feeling about being mindless into the women . |
| 14 | Philosophy has its own way of being interested in the world , its own problems to solve by its own lights , and these are not those of empirical sociology . |
| 15 | Like love , listening to God has its own reason for being . |
| 16 | Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be . |
| 17 | One monkey , a female called Gena , ripped off her own tail after being returned from a dental research project at Guy 's Hospital in London . |
| 18 | AGONY : Gena tore off her own tail after being used in research |
| 19 | /He hath honoured me of late ( 31f. ) — she is able to sweep his scruples aside by mocking his cowardice and by showing her own readiness to be the accomplice in this ‘ terrible feat ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ A mother ’ , says Elias Canetti , ‘ is one who gives her own body to be eaten . |
| 21 | Then , perhaps with some thought of her own Christmas to be spent partly with the Queen at Sandringham she added : ‘ The lonely , the confused and the simply unloved , who need your help more than ever . ’ |
| 22 | Alternatively , the RFL may apply for his or her own entry to be cancelled . |
| 23 | She thought that once she would have been described as an ‘ old maid ’ and wondered whether she could blame her brothers or if it was all her own fault for being too easy-going . |
| 24 | Then she realized it was her own desire to be valued , noticed even , that made her want to do something that would n't take a minute once she 'd started . |
| 25 | And He knew she 'd paid sorely for having Jenny , paid in her own shame at being caught by a married man at her age , paid in being the cause of her death . |
| 26 | This can sometimes be done very successfully by helping her to channel her energy and abilities into some local club or voluntary service organisation where her talent for management can be put to good use , as well as meeting her own need to be a little bit of a ‘ bossy-boots ’ . |
| 27 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 28 | Everyone has his own story of being ignored when requesting information and of being left uncertain what to do when things have gone wrong , such as connections lost . |
| 29 | As soon as the first ring sounded he knew she was not there , that the sound of the telephone was reverberating through empty rooms , as lost and desolate as wind crying across a salt marsh , as hopeless as he felt his own heart to be . |
| 30 | Only the duke of Normandy presumed to make this explicit , allowing his own name to be introduced into the chant after the prayers for the French king , so that the congregation called on the great warrior saints to guarantee the duke 's safety and perpetual peace . |