Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | In embarking on this section of my reminiscences , I need to stress once more that I am not writing my own memoirs . |
| 2 | It 's not that anyone 's going to whip me if I do n't do it — but I know there 's going to be double the quantity tomorrow , so really I 'm just beating my own brow . |
| 3 | Erm and it 's all to do with contacts because I 'm still running my own business erm of of |
| 4 | This is particularly important , and I 'm now riding my own hobby horse , but in the area of science erm we have a situation that erm in most secondary schools choice has to be made at the age of thirteen , fourteen , by boys and girls as to which subjects they should take . |
| 5 | I was soon to have my own experience of room mates , however . |
| 6 | Employees with wives who are actively pursuing their own careers are also likely to encounter problems overseas , especially if the wife is forced to give up her job because of her husband 's transfer and her role abroad does not enable her to work or to develop other satisfactory activities . |
| 7 | If you let your debtors get away with not paying or late paying you are only hurting your own image by letting it be known that your credit control is open to abuse and that you can be financially pushed around . |
| 8 | When you are slimming you are really eating your own body — eating away the part of it you do n't want , that surplus fat ! |
| 9 | No , you 're not doing your own hair . |
| 10 | You ca n't sleep you 're actually providing your own sleep deprivation and you say hey , next thing you know I really will be falling down the stairs ! but he does n't seem to get the joke and then it 's back to the cell and then the interview room with the barred , opaqued windows so you ca n't see out and they switch on the tape-machine recording everything as usual and it 's getting more bizarre ; they get me to do a Michael Caine voice ! |
| 11 | The strategy was originally conceived as far back as the late 1960's when it appeared to many of us that unless we obtained a greater command over our raw materials we would be exposed to a fatal squeeze from the oil companies , who were increasingly entering our own field of business . |
| 12 | As I have already noted , I have yet to meet children who were always getting their own way who were contented or calm . |
| 13 | Always more than a nepotistic afterthought , Brix had more musical input than The Fall could comfortably contain and now , after almost four years of intermittent solo action , she 's finally made her own album ( Spin This Web ) with her own group Adult Net . |
| 14 | She is not allowed her own story , her version is by definition a retroversion , an imperfect , displaced version that appears in the wrong place in the mirror . |
| 15 | So please look out for that endangered species — the lesser-paid landscape architect , who is not feathering his own nest but simply trying to occupy a niche in the food chain . |
| 16 | Owens , whose dispute with Moorcroft was settled by the Central Area Council and who is currently handling his own affairs , is to box new British super-featherweight champion Neil Haddock ( Llanelli ) at Everton Park Sports Centre on December 1 . |
| 17 | This time , she was n't metamorphizing her own body by will power . |
| 18 | Rory tried to sneak a surreptitious glance at Adam 's wristwatch — she was n't wearing her own since it would have looked totally out of place with the slinky black number she was wearing — only to have her eyes riveted on his hands . |
| 19 | And if she was n't making her own clothes , she was determined to back her country folk and wear designer gear from Down Under , not previously known as a stronghold in fashion terms . |
| 20 | She was even making her own clothes which she often paraded at public appearances in Britain and Australia . |
| 21 | Then as she was about to explain her own presence there , the outer door of the kitchen opened and a man entered . |
| 22 | When the last telex was sent and the last cheque banked , we almost threw our things into suitcases , loaded them into the sports car , said our goodbyes to Hassan who was off to see his own family , and set out . |
| 23 | That , part of th , of the issue I think about us , perhaps feeling that we do n't have traditions th is that we we are still rediscovering our own history , and I think a lot of traditions grow out of historical events or historical personages . |
| 24 | Yes , I mean it 's not the whole of the market , admittedly , and we are still encouraging our own countrymen to take a holiday in this country erm but if one 's blunt about it , yes , it 's erm a large sector of the market and one that is , one we 've got to get back to come up to last year 's levels . |
| 25 | Members of the Police Federation have admitted that ‘ anything short of total independence will fail to stifle the cry from outside the service that we are still judging our own ’ . |
| 26 | Throughout adulthood we are constantly reinforcing our own ageist attitudes by blaming our own inadequacies on ageing . |
| 27 | I would n't say my career will go the same way as Kylie 's — we 're both doing our own thing and I would n't try to imitate her because we are both completely different . |
| 28 | ‘ Strikes me , sir , ’ said Ozaran , first of the troopers , ‘ that although it 's a terrible shame and all , we 're only risking our own necks going after him . |
| 29 | We were all doing our own thing . |
| 30 | We were still writing our own separate poems , and one I did started : |