Example sentences of "in [pos pn] own [noun sg] [conj] [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 | I answered her look with as much affection in my own expression as I could muster and added , ‘ But I want to hear , my lady , tawil omrich . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | There was nothing in my own life that I could not confide to him , and I could not imagine what there might be in his that he needed to keep from me . |
| 5 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll see to Nogai in my own time and I advise you not to interfere . ’ |
| 7 | Well I 'm actually in my own office but it joins on to another office |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In bed , drifting on the edge of sleep , I think of November evenings in my own town that I hate so much , London , with its sky of sagging cloud , where all the beautiful women already have boyfriends . |
| 10 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 11 | The deliberation took two minutes and Fairbrother said : ‘ I felt in my own mind that I was in . |
| 12 | Erm I have no doubt in my own mind that you would be able to erm launch into this without any problem because of your experience . |
| 13 | But when people like Norman Jay and Omar said they were into the track , it sort of backed up in my own mind that it was a safe tune — they 're not the sort of people who give you compliments just to make you smile . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I know she came to Oxford and I 'm certain in my own mind that she came to Breakspear College . |
| 15 | Once the gales have blown themselves out and the depressions have ‘ filled ’ or moved away , we usually get a spell of settled weather when things return to normal.The few days of settled weather allow me to spend some hours fishing offshore for ling and tusk which , as well as providing me with relaxation and sport , is satisfyingly justified in my own mind because it is providing food for the family during the winter to come . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | We recently had to face this problem in my own county when we embarked on a capital programme to computerise the library service . |
| 19 | Like the Israelite prophets , they may not be honoured in their own country but they are recognized as belonging . |
| 20 | To me , it seemed that those teachers were more likely to be experts in their own system than I would be . |
| 21 | The blubber which keeps them warm in the water acts as an overly-effective insulator on land , and they can literally cook in their own fat if they are not kept cool . |
| 22 | Groups of children sometimes can invent games of their own , or maybe entertain themselves in their own way if they are free of adult interference . |
| 23 | I suspect that [ the ] very absence of quality is what makes such stuff attractive to children , not just because it is easy to read , undemanding , untaxing , but because the simplistic plots and characters leave children free to embroider and enrich the stories in their own way as they read . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They may exist in their own right or they may be illustrations in a book . |
| 26 | Chapels may be eligible in their own right if they are outstanding buildings ( grade I or II* ) , or on townscape grounds if they are in conservation areas . |
| 27 | These freight forwarders frequently act either as carriers in their own right when they consolidate multiple shippers ' cargo and hire space on the vessel or vessels involved in the maritime leg of the journey . |
| 28 | Of course , with economic activity rates among women peaking at around two-thirds for married women in middle age and four-fifths for non-married women in their twenties and early thirties , there are a significant proportion who never experience ‘ retirement ’ from paid employment in their own right because they have withdrawn from the labour market long before formal retirement age . |
| 29 | So neither the UK parent nor any of its wholly-owned subsidiaries qualify as small companies in their own right as they are members of an ineligible group . |
| 30 | However remote their political views remained from the rest of the electorate , the " Clyde group " remained as secure in their own area as they had ever been . |