Example sentences of "own [noun pl] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an illustration of the well-known problem of computer scientists becoming so enthralled with their own inventions that they lose sight of the needs of users . |
| 2 | ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help . |
| 3 | Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right . |
| 4 | Some doctors are so overwhelmed by their own emotions that they find it hard to handle the mother 's . |
| 5 | She had been so deeply involved with her own emotions that she had lost the imaginative sense that is necessary if you are to see other people as independent entities , locked in their private worlds . |
| 6 | Mona and Sheila were so poised on the edge of their own lives that they listened as if hearing about the living stream they were about to enter . |
| 7 | Mona and Shiela were so poised on the edge of their own lives that they listened as if hearing about the living stream they were about to enter . ’ |
| 8 | She was so caught up in her own feelings that she failed to detect the danger in the question . |
| 9 | Kate had been so taken up with her own affairs that she 'd rather forgotten Ace 's part in the drama . |
| 10 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 11 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 12 | In 58 ‘ your slave ’ , ‘ your vassal ’ is ready to swallow any insult or neglect , the poem concluding : The second-person pronouns come so thick and fast here that we can not miss the bitter criticism of the Friend setting himself up as a law unto himself , becoming so entirely obsessed with his own pleasures that he betrays their relationship . |
| 13 | Such is the entertainment value of working out your own routes that I remain baffled by those who think the West Highland Way is a good idea . |
| 14 | In the end Mrs Reed was so afraid of this child 's evil influence on her own children that she had to send her here . |
| 15 | Once again each man visited with his own buddies that they 'd gone through training with here in the States , so we feel very much attached to the Hundredth Bomb Group and . |
| 16 | Laura blinked , realising that she had been so buried in her own thoughts that she 'd missed what Carole had been saying . |