Example sentences of "[pron] own [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Joe 's got 'is own farm in t'Canadas and there 's our Tamar , no better than she should be , and living like a queen . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And to the end that you may deal for me without hindrance , to bring about this peace , I undertake that I will not henceforth , at least until I do withdraw this word , have any ado of my own willing with any English company in arms , but will forbear them as you counsel . |
| 3 | Apart from public education , my own field of interest and experience has been in the discourse analysis of language in the magistrates ' court , where I have played the roles of a bilingual interpreter and of a sociolinguist observing the language scene . |
| 4 | ( The Siege of Troy is available in the same series and is my own favourite of the three , with Helen , Menelaus , Hector and Achilles , and Memnon with the ‘ dark cloud ’ of his warriors from countries so hot that men 's skins are burnt black and nothing is white about them except their teeth . |
| 5 | My own favourite among the three books is Euclid Rules OK ? ( pp 64 ) in which Archibald travels to various worlds to investigate their geometries . |
| 6 | And , my own favourite among the forthcoming titles , John Dixon Hunt 's Oxford Book of Garden Verse ( OUP , March £17.95 , 0 19 214196 1 ) , by far the best such anthology yet compiled . |
| 7 | Rest assured I will not buy my own happiness at the expense of … of another 's . ’ |
| 8 | Passing the crag rats who were climbing Cave Route Right Hand , I climbed my own bit of grade E6 over the tufa and out past the block of stone with a hole eroded through that is said by some to have been the lip of a water chute when the chasm was a cave . |
| 9 | They made me wonder if I could use pure woven wool as a base for my own technique with the machine . |
| 10 | ‘ If you will obey my voice , ’ said God to the Israelites after the Exodus , ‘ and keep my covenant , you shall be my own possession among all peoples ’ ( Exod. 19:5 ) . |
| 11 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 12 | Because I recognised my own culpability in what had happened I did n't even argue the point . ’ |
| 13 | I 've decided to add my own gown to the auction as it 's for a good cause , Guy 's Hospital cancer unit . |
| 14 | When I woke up I was in my own bed with a terrible hangover . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going to take control — be my own master at last , and to hell with everything else . ’ |
| 16 | If I misrepresent the subject of war ( but not the concern with love and loss ) in Housman 's poetry I can even fuel my own paranoia about the condition of our planet . |
| 17 | In so far as my own kind of social anthropology can be |
| 18 | On the basis of the work done by other researchers on the structure of DNA strands , and my own identification of Briant Bodies Alpha and Beta , I was able to choose a conception that would produce certain clearly defined physical characteristics . |
| 19 | I can take my own stuff in my own bag , yes . |
| 20 | My own reading of the evidence is that the wide ranging family network ( Rosser and Harris 's ‘ extended family ’ ) is fast losing all functional significance and , that being so , the elementary family of conjugal pair and children is reverting to its original condition — once again it is a domestic group not a kinship group . |
| 21 | I have tried to establish my own territory in the attic , outside the country of my ancestors . |
| 22 | I can not think of my own knowledge of the physical world in terms of my dispositions to behave , but only as my dispositions , construed as operating in the world of which |
| 23 | Often the species involved are quite ( or even very ) unusual , and I am sent scurrying off to flick through books and scientific papers , increasing my own knowledge in the process . |
| 24 | ‘ Appreciate all offers , ’ said Joe , ‘ but I 'll be having my own breakfast in a little while . ’ |
| 25 | SOME 18 months ago I wrote about my own incompetence with and dislike for the microwave oven . |
| 26 | I watched the two handsome flags uncurl to the warm wind , then went on my own tour of inspection . |
| 27 | I 've got my own system for identification but I 'm not telling that fragolli anything . ’ |
| 28 | I was under an immense amount of pressure at work , running my own company with 100 people working for me and it all went to my head . |
| 29 | In any event , the biggest problem for us all was my own state of depression . |
| 30 | So I can not claim to be an expert , but I have been considering spending my own money on America this year . |