Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 2 | It said Clerical Medical & General Life Assurance and Royal Insurance , which between them own 37.4pc of Brixton 's existing shares , had undertaken to take up their rights to the new issue in full . |
| 3 | Financial deregulation , with its resultant mergers and reconstructions , has reduced LIFFE 's membership to under 200 firms which between them own shares in the Exchange . |
| 4 | I like to hear you tell me things for me own good , anyway . ’ |
| 5 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 6 | I applied for the post and was interviewed by the headmaster , a man of about my own age who was ‘ mad on Puccini ’ , and consequently thrilled to bits when I recognized |
| 7 | It was n't Katrina who next appeared , it was a slight woman of about my own age , Kathleen . |
| 8 | SOME 18 months ago I wrote about my own incompetence with and dislike for the microwave oven . |
| 9 | When he wrote The Childhood at the age of thirty-five , Thomas associated this sudden interest in poetry with a sex-stirred liking for a ‘ tall thin freckled girl of about my own age with good rather large features , dark hair and grey eyes , and an austere expression ’ . |
| 10 | I want , as Milton says in those pathetic closing lines of his Epic , ‘ a place of rest ’ … 1 am too doubtful about my own writing to think of making an effort towards completing another volume . |
| 11 | From the first , he had been selflessly understanding about my own war , and we had had a very happy marriage . |
| 12 | But if I claim that my religious experience is experience of God , then I am not simply talking about my own feelings but about a transcendent being that I am claiming my feelings to be feelings of . |
| 13 | I was far from sure about my own appearance . |
| 14 | I often see people who look about my own age working in shops or making appointments at the optician 's even sitting at desks in estate agency showrooms . |
| 15 | It might be that I ca n't be objective about my own songs , ’ he told City Limits . |
| 16 | I was sat next to an Army wife of about my own age . |
| 17 | I was wanted in Formula 1 , then I was n't , so I went about my own business , creating my own new future , then all of a sudden I 'm wanted again . |
| 18 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
| 19 | He was of about my own age , perhaps a bit older , pleasant looking and cheerful . |
| 20 | I 'm afraid I started to think about my own skin at that point . |
| 21 | But nevertheless this week 's startling news that Nicholas MacMahon , the four-year-old Mozart-loving computer genius , could talk and read before he was a year old set me wondering about my own wild-eyed nine-month-old infant . |
| 22 | The prints were about my own size , 6½ and my own guess for what it is worth , since , as a cadet I did own a pair of hob-nails , is that my own almost religious love of country railways had revealed a kind of secular stigmatic effect . |
| 23 | What was peculiar about my own circumstances I have already tried to describe in the hope of finding and revealing some useful clues . |
| 24 | So the little sketchbook doodles I made from the car might be all that is needed : a few slight marks pointing to the lack of incident in a country where you can travel a long way without seeming to get anywhere — which is what I felt about my own artistic journey . |
| 25 | It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service ! |
| 26 | Apart from learning more about my own language , the eloquent richness of the Queen 's English and the previously undiscovered interest I had in teaching , my job brought me into close contact with real Spanish people . |
| 27 | Like so many journalists , I am very Opinionated , hopefully in private only — even about my own profession , journalism If we are to be seen as an independent , unbiased and creditable observer , should we really be in the political arena with our trade union the NUJ ? |
| 28 | You see , I had been doing something about my own future , too . |
| 29 | Thank you for your generous remarks about my own work . |
| 30 | ‘ There I was , merrily going about my own business , when I suddenly disappeared in a puff of metaphysics . |