Example sentences of "by [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mona graffiti started to appear everywhere and the craze was fuelled by my own furious reaction whenever I discovered some new example of the genre . |
| 2 | In my earliest years at Magdalen I inhabited a world where hardly anything I wanted to know needed to be found out by my own unaided efforts . |
| 3 | I was only making my living by my own strength , now I ca n't work and I have become disabled . ’ |
| 4 | I was only making my living by my own strength , now I ca n't work and I have become disabled . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If I can pull myself up by my own bootstraps , ’ he declared , ‘ then so can the human race . ’ |
| 6 | But do n't think for a moment that I 'm duped by my own little lies . ’ |
| 7 | It contradicts all the assumptions of secular culture — that I can gain self-knowledge and pull myself up by my own shoestrings . |
| 8 | I was dismayed by my own instant reaction when seeing a copy of a letter from the Director of Age Concern England to the Department of Health , asking for the age limits for blood donation to be extended above the present age limit of 65 . |
| 9 | By my own lights , I think I am . |
| 10 | When I die it will not be by my own hand , but fighting for my country . ’ |
| 11 | Those designs are mine , done in my own time and made up by my own outworkers . |
| 12 | For long stretches I walked with my eyes on the ground , mesmerized by the silence of the forest , by my own soundless footsteps . |
| 13 | I was now bound both by their code and by my own . |
| 14 | The true type , as personified by my own and other mothers , was destined to bear child after child , some of whom could miscarry , some of whom could die , and all of whom were a perpetual source of worry and expense . |
| 15 | SAVED — BY MY OWN LIFEBOAT |
| 16 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 17 | These are well illustrated by my own case . |
| 18 | ( I am probably too influenced by my own feelings regarding Victoria . ) |
| 19 | I tell you , after a long life of many escapes , many dramas which might have been tragedies , what I want and would value most is to be free to choose as much of my life as is given to me — to live it by my own lights , Mary , to do , insofar as God wills it , what I want to do to the very hilt and limit . ’ |
| 20 | Cast out by my own kind … |
| 21 | ‘ I was caged by my own power , ’ he said in his soft , malevolent voice . |
| 22 | The benefit of such consolidations — or perhaps more accurately the disadvantage of not treating a customer in his entirety — is nicely illustrated by my own personal experience with a highly respected financial services provider . |
| 23 | I began to yammer , " I had a check up by my own … " |
| 24 | But dying by my own hand is too good for me . |
| 25 | " No , I got it by my own self . " |
| 26 | frozen by my own omens . |
| 27 | ‘ Tuesday : After rehearsals I drive home to be fed by my own loving mother , down South for the duration . |
| 28 | She was weeping , pleading , fighting me , but I was obsessed by my own need . |
| 29 | The specific mechanism suggested by Freud in Totem and Taboo ( and corroborated by my own research ) , is that of the murder of the primal father by his sons — or , at least , by those whose egos were sufficiently evolved to experience the considerable distortion caused by their ambivalence regarding him . |
| 30 | Is the evidence on which I base my denial of God actually non-experience , in which case how can I be sure that this is not caused by my own limitations in accessing what in reality exists ? |