Example sentences of "[verb] at my own " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | ‘ Why ca n't I look at my own work ? ’ he asked . |
| 3 | ‘ I do look at my own chart . |
| 4 | I am not gon na move over and I am going at my own pace , so I slowed down to about twenty miles an hour and it 's a road about four miles long and er he just could n't get past , you know ? |
| 5 | You asked me to consult you , not to buy at my own discretion , as before . |
| 6 | ‘ The best thing about the course is that I can work at my own pace . |
| 7 | I railed at the NSS typesetters and then happened to look at my own copy and saw that the mistake was entirely mine . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At such times , I wonder at my own job and the meaningless sterility of the statistics which are my trade . |
| 11 | 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 13 | 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 . |