Example sentences of "of [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm off to find a patch of me own . ’ |
| 2 | I never thought it would 'appen to one of me own children , the youngest too , what I was always most fond of . ’ |
| 3 | By the way of contrast The Independent , building up a composite Independent person from figures supplied by the same research company ( TGI ) , announced that 23.9% of Independent readers have a household income exceeding £25,000 , 44.2% of them own a car , 31.4% own stocks and shares , 9% play cricket , 71.9% bought records in the last year and in the same period 51.2% purchased at least one pair of sports shoes while 14% spent over £50 in garden centres . |
| 4 | Just two b two by the men two two of them own . |
| 5 | ‘ Do any of them own horses like ours ? ’ |
| 6 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 7 | There was also the question of my own exhaustion . |
| 8 | There was also the question of my own exhaustion . |
| 9 | He finds himself ‘ considering the idea of flight ’ , and the idea of defeat : ‘ 1 suppose that , thinking of my own harassment and Raymond 's defeat , I had begun to consider Yvette a defeated person as well , trapped in the town , as sick of herself and the wasting asset of her body as I was sick of myself and my anxieties . ’ |
| 10 | The measure expresses a mean between saving and lashing-out , and it has remained a feature of my own Scots-Irish domestic economy which I would bet is widespread in northern parts . |
| 11 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 12 | Sense of my own helplessness in relation to it , he wrote . |
| 13 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 14 | I watched the other passengers go on towards the passport control and the futility of my own expedition was now only too clear . |
| 15 | ‘ A flat of my own would be the ideal thing still . |
| 16 | I would like a home of my own but I have special requirements . |
| 17 | That I avoided such a course of action is because of my own understanding of what the institution would allow before it swung into action . |
| 18 | I have mentioned aspects of the debate on the inclusion of the subjective self into an ethnography ; now I hope to weave aspects of this subjective self into a scientific construct , revealing something of police culture along the way as I briefly explore some of my own early career moves . |
| 19 | I live alone with my garden , a patch of London land which I have reclaimed from waist-high thistles , elderberries , brambles and rose thorns to a restrained wilderness of my own design . |
| 20 | This leads to problems when I try to conceive of my own knowing , believing or thinking in behaviourist terms . |
| 21 | I can not think of my own knowledge of the physical world in terms of my dispositions to behave , but only as my dispositions , construed as operating in the world of which |
| 22 | Before passing on , I will introduce a piece of terminology of my own and call central-system thinking ‘ cognisance ’ , a term chosen so as to give the flavour of knowledge , rationality , and accessibility to consciousness . |
| 23 | Maybe the reader 's first thought an experiment of my own showed that this is not misinterpretation in any simple sense . |
| 24 | The smell of couscous and other grain which filled the air constantly reminded me of my own situation . |
| 25 | Fixing my eyes on them , I could n't help cursing Aisha , wishing she was dead , swearing by the Prophet Muhammad that I would have my revenge because it was she who was stopping me walking those streets and riding in those red buses to find work and a flat or a room of my own . |
| 26 | So I decided to do some investigating of my own . |
| 27 | I am very sympathetic to it , and have tried to put it into effect in some of my own writing , but there is an accompanying danger that literature becomes absorbed by culture , and that literary values are superseded by cultural ones . |
| 28 | Again I am suspicious of my own bias of taste . |
| 29 | The fact , though , that I discovered it not in any yellowing vanity book of my own but among the vast volumes of newspaper clippings maintained by Dick Crossman was marginally encouraging . |
| 30 | I think , with having children of my own , I think what it would be like , God forbid , if that happened to one of my kids . |