Example sentences of "with [pron] own [noun] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been on stage every night , ’ she said sharply , surprising herself with her own effrontery at speaking that way to Karl . |
| 2 | Gradually a group outlives the formal stage and begins to ‘ take liberties ’ with its own procedures without slipping back into chaos . |
| 3 | Each of the questions above is worth exploring , especially because final paragraphs and sentences often fall into one of a number of largely unsatisfactory idioms , each with its own way of dealing with ending less as an opportunity than as an escape . |
| 4 | As Becher ( 1981 ) has argued , academic subjects are not neutral , they are ‘ cultures ’ , each with its own way of perceiving and interpreting the world . |
| 5 | From the outside , the immediate impression is one of a traditional culture , with its own way of going on , more or less impenetrable to an outsider . |
| 6 | For centuries previously the subject was a province variously of law , philosophy , history , and other disciplines , each with its own ways of seeing the world . |
| 7 | Every fashion comes with its own set of justifying phrases , and the new mood is no different . |
| 8 | It is directly concerned with individuals , with their minds and with their own way of looking at things . |
| 9 | The significance of the anonymity issue for many of the legal experts lies more with their own concern with getting more women to report rape , than with raped women 's own priorities for legal change . |
| 10 | On sale in M & S food halls is a ring of 40 king prawns with their own pot of mouthwatering cocktail dip . |
| 11 | These rather simple expectations were not fulfilled however : the worst housed were not necessarily relocated and the new estates were associated in due time with their own problems of overcrowding , poverty and undernourishment . |
| 12 | There can be no reliable estimate that — ’ 10 per cent of the homes built in 1980 in New Mexico were made from adobe ’ , because Spanish Americans and Anglo Americans far from rich , can so easily convert the soil from beneath their feet into walls around new rooms , and they do this regularly with their own hands in enlarging their houses . |
| 13 | Holders of non-British passports and those issued outside the UK should check with their own embassy with regard to any special permits or visas required for all countries they will be visiting or passing through . |
| 14 | Meanwhile state-owned energy monopolies have come up with their own solution to generating more electricity without angering local environmentalists : moving their power stations to Eastern Europe . |
| 15 | People in poor countries lose touch with their own ways of meeting their needs — and may be too polite to tell foreign volunteers that they are compounding the problem . |
| 16 | He was familiar with his own record of defying the court and it has never been suggested on his behalf that the sentence was other than fully justified . |
| 17 | Coun David Walsh , chairman of the environment , development and transportation committee , said : ‘ The exciting new element in the introduction of this service is how it fits in with our own plans for modernising and re-invigorating local public transport services so that dependence on the car as the only available means of getting around can become a thing of the past . ’ |