Example sentences of "own [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship protected Ford from some of the more severe consequences of his own activities and allowed him to prolong his plotting long after the king 's cause was effectively lost . |
| 2 | He walked free after embarrassing the RSPCA by producing a book written by one of its own experts that said it was safe to leave fish home alone for up to two weeks . |
| 3 | One federation of vegetable producers packed a small basket with all the Ingredients for a seasonal recipe featuring their own vegetables and sent it off to leading cookery writers on the national and regional dailies . |
| 4 | The guy let him carry his own case and led him through into the concourse where the English driver from the Embassy pool was waiting . |
| 5 | He invariably believed completely in his own case and pursued it relentlessly to the end . |
| 6 | It was with a certain amount of satisfaction that they settled down in their own kitchen and discussed their financial situation . |
| 7 | Absent-mindedly , Jackie licked his own fingers and ran them round the plate by the bed , picking up the crumbs which he transferred to his tongue . |
| 8 | He pointed to his own ears and shook his head . |
| 9 | He thought of nothing while he watched them , he shed his own worries and experienced their freedom , no longer bound by his own dull , weak body . |
| 10 | Lisa had put aside her own doubts and hugged her little daughter . |
| 11 | In these heady days , Gould 's greed surpassed even his own bounds and made him capable of an ungentlemanly lack of sportsmanship . |
| 12 | Marianne took a cursory glance at her own reflection and pursed her lips disgustedly . |
| 13 | Bawden loved his own work and found it soothing to live surrounded by it . |
| 14 | Yeah and was this of your own choosing or did your have to move to this particular area ? |
| 15 | This was the second disappointment for my mother , who prided herself on her own intelligence and wanted her children to succeed academically , because she felt it would be the only way we could be successful in life , there being no money at home . |
| 16 | There are even suggestions that the US appoint its own Chancellor and rid itself of the high-handed monetary czars who ride unchecked across the economic landscape . |
| 17 | She was now a companion and friend rather than a nursemaid and domestic servant ; she prepared herself to run her own household and developed her skills as a needlewoman . |
| 18 | She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity . |
| 19 | In 1948 he moved to the ancient house of Daneway , near Sapperton , where he ground his own flour , baked his own bread and made his own paper on which to print his poems on his own press . |
| 20 | You just let yourself into your own home and thought they 'd be upstairs asleep ? ’ |
| 21 | Sentencing the two men , Judge Richard May said he was bearing in mind that the defendants had n't put the money in their own pockets or used it to support expensive lifestyles . |
| 22 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 23 | In Sliwa 's last stunt he faked his own kidnapping and blamed it on off-duty police officers . |
| 24 | One was from the Arisleus Vision : ‘ With so much love did Beya embrace Gabricus that she entirely absorbed him in her own nature and dissolved him in inseparable atoms . ’ |
| 25 | However , in her speech at the Lord Mayor 's banquet in London on Nov. 12 Thatcher made a spirited defence of her own record and expressed her determination to defeat any opponents . |
| 26 | Now , Joe Zawinul : he developed his own sound and used it to perfection . |
| 27 | Minutes later , feeling suddenly totally exhausted by all the nervous tension of the past few hours , Shiona kissed the already sleeping Kirsty goodnight , then climbed into her own bunk and closed her eyes . |
| 28 | This again indicated whose who lived unconditionally on their own resources and distinguished them from men beholden to someone for their livelihood . |
| 29 | Garvey 's twisted his dreams and taken the pageant from him and turned the plays to his own ends and made him a party to this … this blasphemy ! |
| 30 | Instead of lobbying harder for increased funds for higher education , vice-chancellors have accepted the Government 's arguments on their own terms and betrayed their consituency - their students . |