Example sentences of "at [pos pn] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I was with someone else I 'd have to talk to them or hurry to keep up with them , but this way I can go at my own speed . |
| 2 | You asked me to consult you , not to buy at my own discretion , as before . |
| 3 | If I had not intervened on these pages to explain a few points this book ( or its opening section ) would be a gun aimed at my own temple . |
| 4 | I 've certainly felt that again and again , not so much at the inadequacy of the politicians , as at my own inadequacy . |
| 5 | I shouted goodbye and soon followed at my own pace , leaving the sacred hitching post of the sun in the custody of two girls , a man lying on his back in the grass , the gaseosa-selling woman and a tethered goat . |
| 6 | I found myself wandering round with a wry smile on my face and occasionally bursting into laughter at my own presumption . |
| 7 | For days afterwards anxiety and guilt were on the table for lunch and self-contempt at my own cowardice in avoiding him provided supper . |
| 8 | But I like to imbibe history from books , at my own pace , in elegant surroundings , preferably with a background of Mozart 's Flute and Harp Concerto . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It was like death-with my children already grown up , tired of watching my movies at my own request , with my ex-wife at my side and my faithful dog . ’ |
| 10 | She kept her eyes lowered to make sure that she did not look at me at this moment , at my own quite irrelevant scars . |
| 11 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 12 | So I rang United Airlines head office , at my own expense , and spoke to a woman who could find no record of me on the UA computer . |
| 13 | I railed at the NSS typesetters and then happened to look at my own copy and saw that the mistake was entirely mine . |
| 14 | I had a few moments of fury , a fury compounded of shame at my own stupidity , the triteness of the situation , the thought of my cottage and supper and the cosy fireside . |
| 15 | He responded by explaining to the chairman of the committee , the fashionable playwright and military man John Burgoyne , how he had entered Murshidabad the capital of Bengal as a conqueror and how bankers and jewellers had rushed forward to thrust presents on him ; and , he concluded , as he thought back to the moment of triumph , ‘ By God , Mr. Chairman , I stand amazed at my own moderation . ’ |
| 16 | Now , after attending the opening of ‘ Die grosse Utopie : die Russische Avantgarde 1915–1932 ’ in Frankfurt-am-Main yesterday , at my own expense , I wish to state that I was dazzled by the beauty and breadth of the exhibition and that the pluses far outweigh the minuses . |
| 17 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 18 | If I 'm not making money at my own artwork , then I can help somebody make it from theirs . ’ |
| 19 | My first problem was to overcome my sense of inadequacy at my own mathematical understanding . |
| 20 | The Ex-Wives returns to the comic vein of some of her earlier writing : ‘ I wanted to entertain myself , I lay on the floor on my stomach , scribbling away and laughing — well , if I ca n't laugh at my own jokes , who else can ? ’ |
| 21 | Incredulity at my own stupidity almost made me laugh , for Nour would , without a shadow of a doubt , have many , many wives and not one of them would ever be happy . |
| 22 | Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room . |
| 23 | Then I was at my own ship , dismounting from the floater — and abruptly halting . |
| 24 | ‘ Why ca n't I look at my own work ? ’ he asked . |
| 25 | Er and I took the time at my own risk , took the time at my own risk er primarily because of that very fact that you were there to support the interests of your members and no one else , no one else . |
| 26 | Er and I took the time at my own risk , took the time at my own risk er primarily because of that very fact that you were there to support the interests of your members and no one else , no one else . |
| 27 | I stared down at my own bed and accepted Benjamin 's conclusions . |
| 28 | I met a few of them at my own destination , Cushendall , where the Co Antrim fleadh was in full swing , amid glorious sunshine . |
| 29 | ‘ The best thing about the course is that I can work at my own pace . |
| 30 | I could feel the presence of the dark violinist at my own back , too . |