Example sentences of "[pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Oh , what pleasure would it be to me were there a good understanding between my mother and myself , when I am assured if I know my own heart , that I am so far from having any ill against her that I have almost undone myself to serve her … |
| 32 | Even at this moment , I see that in your gaze which finds an echo in my own heart ! ’ |
| 33 | I could tear my own heart out . ’ |
| 34 | A lady after my own heart . |
| 35 | 'You tell me this in order to comfort me and make me able to betray you without rending my own heart . |
| 36 | There was nothing he said that I did not recognize as being the expression of my own heart . |
| 37 | I had spent , and indeed continued to spend , many hours trying to persuade the blind to see , or in other words to convince rich men of the virtue of causes close to my own heart , especially those relating to the arts . |
| 38 | I was pretending to be another man , but losing my own heart . |
| 39 | You will drive me from you in spite of my own heart . |
| 40 | I could hear my own heart thumping and beating . |
| 41 | They had been thinking of a job in Parma to which I would commute daily ; but this one sounded very interesting , something after my own heart . |
| 42 | I Know My Own Heart : the Diaries of Anne Lister 1791–1840 , 1988 . ] |
| 43 | In my own heart , the fires of love and conviction about Africa , which had been burning low , began to blaze again . |
| 44 | ‘ By God , my lord , I think you are a man after my own heart ! |
| 45 | Had my own heart broken by one inquisitive straight lady , way back in my desperate youth . |
| 46 | I will feel more and more independent … more able to stick up for myself … to stand upon my own feet … to hold my own … no matter how difficult or trying things may be . |
| 47 | They had done this because I was a poor , weak creature , a parasite , incapable of standing on my own feet . |
| 48 | Ripping out the belay , I thrashed my way up , hardly able to see my own feet , but vaguely registering Roger 's impressively determined lead . |
| 49 | I was sorry that he went to the West Riding after only two terms , although this made me stand on my own feet quickly , which was of itself of value . |
| 50 | I guess I shall have to learn to stand on my own feet . |
| 51 | Although it might appears that this unit could be used to copy into EEPROMS , this proved impractical with my own computer because it is not capable of providing the longer write pulses necessary ( typically about 10mS ) . |
| 52 | Now , seeing as my own computer literacy extends only as far as Super Mario Bros , I 'm left feeling a little bewildered by it all . |
| 53 | Finally , after reading Practical PC I am attracted by the idea of building my own computer . |
| 54 | It 's through them I 've got my own computer . |
| 55 | But the most remark able thing about him was his hair , unusually long for those days , and abundant — of the palest , curly blond , exactly the moonlight platinum colour of my own hair when I was a little boy . |
| 56 | I was letting my own hair grow too . |
| 57 | I plaited my own hair and then I straightened my ink-stained pinafore and we were ready to go . |
| 58 | It was a short bob , the same colour as my own hair . |
| 59 | Inspired by pictures of grand herb gardens , I grew some herbs from seeds and cuttings , to set up my own herb garden in front of our semi-detached house . |
| 60 | I was sad and angry that he should want to place a bolt and go so radically against the grain ; sympathetic with Dave 's strong conviction ; peeved that my own route — Centrefold — had been usurped . |