Example sentences of "my own [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew I 'm a good chatterer ’ — he grinned — ‘ but I can keep my own counsel , and yours an' all , if you want to talk . ’ |
| 2 | What bothers me is not so much the loss of either Peter Datchett or the yellow dress , but the awful glimpse of my own acquiescence . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Lady , my conduct is my own affair , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ Surely my personal relationships are my own affair , ’ she countered lightly . |
| 5 | ‘ My actions and my choice of companions are entirely my own affair , and frankly I do n't see any reason to divulge any information about either . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And my reasons are my own affair . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ My reason is — my own affair . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ How I pay my mortgage is my own affair ! ’ retorted Leith , well and truly rattled . |
| 9 | ‘ And to the end that you may deal for me without hindrance , to bring about this peace , I undertake that I will not henceforth , at least until I do withdraw this word , have any ado of my own willing with any English company in arms , but will forbear them as you counsel . |
| 10 | ‘ My own remit was to consider the management of operational safety covering normal and emergency operating procedures , the conduct of control room and plant operations , and radiation protection . |
| 11 | I had time only to think , he will find my own garb strange , before I walked dazedly up to him and sat by his side a yard away from him . |
| 12 | Oh he says I make my own prawn cocktail he says at home and lettuce and |
| 13 | However , work on the War Time Operational Expert System was continued until it was passed over to another Branch and , of course , I have continued to sponsor the work on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid since this was my own MSc project . |
| 14 | Apart from my own field already mentioned above , others may choose to research Victorian turnstiles , pre-war floodlighting , tea hut menus or programme design ; then again , there is still much work to be done on Second Division lavatories . |
| 15 | Apart from public education , my own field of interest and experience has been in the discourse analysis of language in the magistrates ' court , where I have played the roles of a bilingual interpreter and of a sociolinguist observing the language scene . |
| 16 | My own approach is not biographical , and assumes neither a clear-cut persona nor a narrative sequence . |
| 17 | My own approach was fortunately simplified by ignorance . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd like to help the small beer producers of Britain more , I 've made a start with cider — I 'm stocking Dunkerton 's cider from Herefordshire ; Ivor really is a man after my own heart , full organic status from the Soil Association . ’ |
| 19 | 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 … |
| 20 | Even at this moment , I see that in your gaze which finds an echo in my own heart ! ’ |
| 21 | I could tear my own heart out . ’ |
| 22 | A lady after my own heart . |
| 23 | 'You tell me this in order to comfort me and make me able to betray you without rending my own heart . |
| 24 | There was nothing he said that I did not recognize as being the expression of my own heart . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I was pretending to be another man , but losing my own heart . |
| 27 | You will drive me from you in spite of my own heart . |
| 28 | I could hear my own heart thumping and beating . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I Know My Own Heart : the Diaries of Anne Lister 1791–1840 , 1988 . ] |