Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [pos pn] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ bad ’ characters in any story grab attention more easily than the ‘ good ’ because in them are realised our own temptations and foul qualities which we suppress in our daily lives . |
| 2 | I am enjoying my own attention ; a carpenter in a large mustard sweater , and a sweet-faced young lad with glasses . |
| 3 | I am getting my own way as usual . |
| 4 | From an enemy I am becoming my own friend . |
| 5 | ‘ I have full responsibility for fund-raising and publicity and because I took on a new post it means I am introducing my own ideas in consultation with the directors and chairman . |
| 6 | I I 'm buying my own race track ! |
| 7 | I 'm going my own way now . ’ |
| 8 | I find that I 'm questioning my own authority , which makes me think even more . |
| 9 | Surely in a way I 'm answering my own point , you would have to go beyond just having a set of words on paper which says we have a major exceptions policy . |
| 10 | And I 'm making my own way home . |
| 11 | ‘ I see myself as a guardian , although I 'm making my own marks with a herb garden and wild flower garden . ’ |
| 12 | doing something else when I 'm doing my own work . |
| 13 | I 'm opening my own business so I need a lot of money |
| 14 | ’ I heard little else because now I was shouting my own piece about Christianity . |
| 15 | ‘ The first time it was shown on television , I was watching my own performance and seeing how far it was from what I had conceived . |
| 16 | I was creating my own mythology . ’ |
| 17 | Schoolgirl fantasies were fulfilled when I was given my own dressing room and bathrobe . |
| 18 | I was telling my own age group about something worthwhile : bird life and conservation . |
| 19 | I was letting my own hair grow too . |
| 20 | Such as that I was trying to use the priesthood as an escape from my personal frustration , that I was dramatizing my own situation , that I was proud and vain , that my idea of Catholicism was up the creek . |
| 21 | I was happy that I was having my own baby but sometimes I used to cry for nothing and I was easily upset . |
| 22 | I was paying my own way , sleeping on the beach at night , leaving my backpack in a kibbutz during the day , and the research went pretty well . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
| 24 | I was fighting my own terrors in public , but others wanted to do it more gently . |
| 25 | Not that I cared , for I was doing my own fuming . |
| 26 | Filming orchestral music is obviously an art which you 've given special thought to and you are pioneering your own editing methods in the light of your long musical and interpretative experience . |
| 27 | If you are using your own office rather than an interview room , arrange for telephone calls to be intercepted and make sure you are not disturbed or distracted while interviewing . |
| 28 | These dimensions have been tested ergonomically , and are designed to fit in with standard appliances , so they provide a useful guide if you are building your own units instead of buying ready-made . |
| 29 | You will certainly need to experiment with exposure periods if you are coating your own boards with a UV sensitive aerosol lacquer . |
| 30 | If you are running your own company which you own and have built up from scratch you have a different approach to somebody like myself who 's a professional manager . |