Example sentences of "[pron] own time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I virtually neglected in my writing the feelings that belonged to my own nature and my own times of life — an irreparable loss , whether great or not . |
| 2 | I like to be able to arrange my own times a bit but that is n't always possible and you 've got to accommodate yourself as well to the needs of the staff . ’ |
| 3 | But I will not be ordered this way and that , she said , I will do the work in my own time , as I choose , for my sister has no right to treat me like a maid , to give orders and expect me to run her errands . |
| 4 | I can remember doing that in my own time . |
| 5 | Those designs are mine , done in my own time and made up by my own outworkers . |
| 6 | It was then that I decided to tell each woman in my own time , taking each one in turn — I could n't tell them all at once . |
| 7 | JB : I painted mostly in my own time , and it 's been like that all along . |
| 8 | But that is in my own time and what I do in my own time is up to me . ’ |
| 9 | But that is in my own time and what I do in my own time is up to me . ’ |
| 10 | But let me do it in my own time , and do n't make me feel like a brood mare . |
| 11 | You might be boss of the launch , but what I do in my own time is none of your bloody business ! ’ |
| 12 | Let me tell them myself , in my own time . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll see to Nogai in my own time and I advise you not to interfere . ’ |
| 14 | Oh no you Well again er as I say I I 'm speaking in in my own time , er and in my time you were left school before you started in the yard at all , aye . |
| 15 | I 'll go home someday … but in my own time . |
| 16 | Er and then I was on my own time in the buffing shop , and I was getting a man 's wages . |
| 17 | I was giving up a great deal of my own time , I may say , just to supplement the inadequate teaching he got at Burleigh . |
| 18 | ‘ I kill in my own time , ’ he said . |
| 19 | However , I also do many activities in my own time , out of school hours . |
| 20 | I know Switzerland well , or did on my own time track . |
| 21 | The thought that such armament was compulsory for anyone privileged enough to own a private car in my own time reminded me that , Napoleonic Wars apart , I was now in an age where the safety and sanctity of the individual was taken for granted . |
| 22 | The reflection implied that this tract of wild land might have come from my own time , the epicentre of the disturbance , and so might be instrumental in restoring me to my own day ! |
| 23 | I shall deal with both points in my own way and in my own time . |
| 24 | ‘ In my own time we 've lost four cham always do so well before losing our way in the second half . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll deal with him in my own time . |
| 26 | As Levi-Strauss was to argue , different histories have different temporalities : the time scales of the sciences do not work at the same pace as other forms of history : they have their own dynamic , their own rhythm , their own times , sometimes fast , sometimes slow , that do not operate by the ordinary round of the year ; Bachelard was fond of pointing out that from a scientific point of view the ten years from 1920 to 1930 were as long an era as the previous five hundred . |
| 27 | Foucault therefore abandons analysis of epistemes for the more Nietzschean ‘ genealogy ’ , which allows him to articulate conflict in terms of differentiated histories with their own conceptual specificities and their own times , while retaining the possibility of the formulation of aims and intentions : |
| 28 | This is an exaggeration , but you should remember that the older the history book ( especially over 20 years ) the less reliable it can be considered to be , because ( i ) new evidence is always being unearthed ( ii ) all historians tend to write from within the perspective of their own times ( " every generation writes its own history " ) ( iii ) most professional historians update their own interpretations according to personal preference and in the face of scholarly criticism . |
| 29 | These three ninth-century writers purveyed a similar message in their own times to audiences made up wholly or in part of lay nobles . |
| 30 | A river flowed near to Bavduin , and each night the dead came to the water on their journey back to the cold earth of their own times and lands . |