Example sentences of "in [pos pn] own [noun] [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I have spent quite long enough outlining the picture in my own constituency and I have no doubt that the House will wish to consider the national picture as well .
2 Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife
3 ‘ I 'll see to Nogai in my own time and I advise you not to interfere . ’
4 Well I 'm actually in my own office but it joins on to another office
5 I studied for one year at the Academy in Vienna and this year finds me working on my own in my own studio and I am being analysed by Dr Wilhelm Stekel .
6 No it was er it was er oh how can I say er I used me head and er , if you follow what I mean , and imagination and er I could envisage what , perhaps , people wanted , it was in my own mind and I 'd make it up some way or another .
7 Good luck to them , I 'm not convinced in my own mind and I mean we 've interviewed these people that there are people internally ready yet , that 's why I said perhaps we should
8 Like the Israelite prophets , they may not be honoured in their own country but they are recognized as belonging .
9 Intermediate targets may be genuine targets which can be aimed for in their own right or they may be spurious targets if they are just subdivisions of the journey to the main target .
10 They may exist in their own right or they may be illustrations in a book .
11 You just say , ‘ Come on ’ — speak to them in their own language and they 'll understand you .
12 Because you 're seen in public and you do sing in public , there 's a lot of people that sing but as you say it 's sometimes just in their own homes or they used to but they would never sing in public , they used to sing in the choir .
13 That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop .
14 We shall not be able to produce ethnically appropriate services without the necessary finance and nor will we be able to develop new services which are innovative to assist people to stay in their own homes and I 'm just going to take one moment to mention one or two Chairman .
15 If it stimulates you to dissent , it is precisely because it is so closely pondered in its own terms and it never , throughout its four hours , loosens its grip on you .
16 Interviewing is a major subject in its own right and you could well gain from , even enjoy , studying it in further depth .
17 The role of the law in constraining and shaping responsibilities in families is an important topic in its own right and I discuss it in chapter 4 , using the Victorian poor Law as a key example .
18 He might be strong in his own opinions but he did not go haring off on his own .
19 He put it in his own holster and he put the er thumb strap over t to secure it in the holster .
20 He 's a genius in his own way and he knows it . ’
21 Benjamin stayed lost in his own thoughts but I caught his unease .
22 My master came back , slightly bemused , lost in his own thoughts and I had to repeat two or three times what Mathilda had told me .
23 She could n't just ignore him in his own house and she had the nasty feeling that she would not have been able to ignore him anywhere .
24 What that also shows is that Ile De Nisky is a very useful performer in his own right and he should take today 's Foundation Stakes in his stride before having another crack at Nashwan in Newmarket 's Champion Stakes later this month .
25 Both Benjamin and I were lost in our own thoughts and I was mystified by Agrippa 's revelations .
26 This is hard enough in our own lives but it is doubly hard in public work where it calls on people devoted to different ideals to work together in mutual acceptance , and that means not just tolerating one another but respecting and understanding what the other is talking about .
27 As Christians we 've discovered about reconciliation in our own lives and we know the need of it in lots of areas in human relationships .
28 Ideas exist in our own minds and we need to master the skilled techniques for bringing them forward for evaluation and application to our problems .
29 But at the same time there may be limitations in your own vision and he brought out parts that maybe I would n't even have used .
30 But erm it 's all very easy to say you ca n't have socialism or this ideal state , whatever you might like to call it , unless it 's all er er you know kind of international er it 's got to be , happen all over the world or it never will happen at all but erm first of all it 's got to happen in your own country and it seems to me that we imagine that everybody , the mass of the people that we , we do that er we want this ideal state .
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