Example sentences of "had [prep] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have always asked myself how much Argan actually loved art , and how much derived instead from the respect he certainly had for his own intelligence . |
| 2 | Additionally , the defendants had of their own accord not relied on the clause in other customer disputes , which showed that they themselves tended to regard its limitation as unreasonable . |
| 3 | Every sceptical argument against the possibility of justified belief is an argument of the strongest form , and leaves us devoid even of the understanding we thought we had of our own language . |
| 4 | It was all the usual Maranello balderdash and came down , basically , to the inflated notions Ferrari had of his own importance . |
| 5 | erm I think first you have to relate to so many teachers erm as a parent of a secondary school child , and this is obviously a much more complicated procedure and also I think parents , many parents feel that they know a little bit less about what their children are doing at school at the secondary stage , it 's all that little bit more advanced , that little bit more different perhaps from what they had in their own education . |
| 6 | Saruman knows better , and so do some others , but ‘ Sam was pained to notice how little honour [ Frodo ] had in his own country ’ . |
| 7 | The information I had on my own troops was also of a general , somewhat amateurish nature , but I did know that , put in its simplest form , my immune system was a collection of several kinds of cells designed to attack and destroy foreign bodies . |
| 8 | They were the schools attended by the children of parents able to pay a modest but not negligible fee , together with the boys and girls who had by their own ability won a free or subsidized place . |
| 9 | He had by his own testimony taken part in the debates of the previous summer on the famous ‘ heads of the proposals ’ , but is not noted by name as a speaker at Reading — the only earlier occasion on which a full record was kept by ( Sir ) William Clarke [ q.v . ] . |