Example sentences of "[pron] own at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was training on my own at the time , and seemed to be constantly injured , so I was n't racing much . |
| 2 | But I remembered her asking whether I did n't go crazy on my own at The Pightle . |
| 3 | The letter concluded : ‘ Convinced Nazis who are really inwardly certain of our final victory do n't seem to be too plentiful even among people who have otherwise courageously held their own at the Front . |
| 4 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 5 | Similarly a grant is paid to staff who move from a rented unfurnished house or flat to a similar property at the new base or who buy a house of their own at the new location . |
| 6 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 7 | Its Studio Theatre has a life of its own at the forefront of creative theatre . |
| 8 | At first sight , this seems to be an attractive move : holding hearings behind closed doors has led to accusations that the Institute is protecting its own at the expense of the public interest . |
| 9 | line of type on its own at the top or bottom of a page . |
| 10 | But she comes into her own at the not-bloody-likely tea party ; and by the end , she has achieved just the right blend of poignancy and pride . |
| 11 | She had dreaded the moment when the food would be done with and the others would get up to dance , leaving her on her own at the table . |
| 12 | On her own at the till , Rachaela removed the extra pound and kept it . |
| 13 | We 've got one on her own at the end there , so . |
| 14 | It was all in legal gobbledegook and took a bit of working out but Lord Chatwin had added some words of his own at the end : ‘ If my beloved Spiggy is found everything goes to him and his heirs . ’ |
| 15 | Pont , who became an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects , came into his own at the outbreak of war in 1939 . |
| 16 | Charles obliged , and filled up his own at the same time . |
| 17 | booking on his own at the moment , three hundred pounds on bookings he 's got , coming up in the next three weeks |
| 18 | I shall be gone , but you will have to live with the consequences , and no more passing off my stuff as your own at the office . |
| 19 | it 's alright when it 's your own at the time because well it 's , it 's different , when there 's another one there , I mean it , it wears you out so |