Example sentences of "we [verb] [pos pn] own [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In summary , if we keep the horse 's anxiety down ( as well as our own ) things will be better next time ; and if we let the horse blow its mind with anxiety , or we lose our own temper , no one will even want to try again , and definitely not the horse ! |
| 2 | But if we change our own scarcity belief , so that money flows more freely into our own lives , we have reduced — by one — the number of people in the world who struggle over money ; and we might choose to use some of our wealth to help others — not out of guilt , but out of love . |
| 3 | I wrote and said that a lot of members our pension , we could n't afford it , and that we owned our own hall so therefore we had a lot of cost to keep it in good repair and why was it nine pound . |
| 4 | We bring our own experience to bear on what is being read by filling gaps , by interpretation , and by extrapolating from what is given in the text ’ ( Crowder , 1982 , p.137 ) . |
| 5 | Like most families in those days , we made our own entertainment . |
| 6 | We made our own entertainment . |
| 7 | And we made our own entertainment that is the thing about it , you know ? |
| 8 | One of the girls nicked some yeast from the kitchens and so we made our own homebrew — potent or what . |
| 9 | We made our own way there ( somehow Tod knows this town backwards ) , and we did n't stay long , thank God . |
| 10 | And then the scientists stated that we were alone in the universe , that we made our own destiny . |
| 11 | Seven or eight years ago we , we , we 're on piecework , we made our own wage . |
| 12 | Emmerdale Farm , Crown Court and General Hospital arrived some time in the middle of the afternoon — in those days , we made our own crap daytime drama . |
| 13 | But it comes down to , first of all , whether it 's sensible to borrow against assets , and all of us do if we 're lucky enough to own our own homes we tend to have borrowed either our first mortgage or sometimes a second against it , and we make our own judgement , and I see there are some suggestions on how the Government spotted this with regard to schools in suggesting that perhaps schools could raise money by mortgaging their school buildings , of course |
| 14 | As Marx remarked , even when we make our own history , we do not make it in conditions of our own choosing and much of it is made behind our backs . |
| 15 | ‘ Most of the time , we make our own luck . |
| 16 | As we journey we make our own story which , like the story of God 's people , includes creation , pilgrimage , wilderness , covenant , deliverance , passion , death and resurrection . |
| 17 | I mean , I believe in some force , but we make our own destiny … |
| 18 | Mind you we got our own video when she was about that no she was younger than that . |
| 19 | And the , as we got our own side they can , they can win perhaps they just around |
| 20 | But as individuals we develop our own language as we go along . |
| 21 | Before implementing such change in our practice , we reviewed our own experience and assessed the likely impact of that change and I 'll present that experience today . |
| 22 | So then I got back on to Gwyllam and said that if we provided our own caravan , would you someone there be willing to do the from site to site and he said that would n't be a problem . |
| 23 | We want our own money for the housework we do . |
| 24 | ‘ We want our own state , we want our flag , ’ said a museum curator , ‘ but in this situation we can not plan anything . |
| 25 | The people the people who are living in Kuwait , they got all the basic erm services such as electricity and water , which is , you know , water is processed a mechanically processed system , we do n't have rivers and we do n't have portable water wells erm we process our own water through erm desalination plants located at on the gulf . |
| 26 | The possibilities of repetition and development will depend greatly upon how carefully we conduct our own enquiry , and in particular in how we go about the next step , which is that of collecting our data . |
| 27 | When we first moved here , we were very keen to be Irish and we cut our own turf . |
| 28 | That 's it , then we cut our own rug . ’ |
| 29 | And we put our own stamp on things , became social in our thinking , our lives . |
| 30 | So if we alter the colour are we designing our own garment ? |