Example sentences of "[pron] own [noun] in " 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 | Because I recognised my own culpability in what had happened I did n't even argue the point . ’ |
| 3 | I can take my own stuff in my own bag , yes . |
| 4 | I have tried to establish my own territory in the attic , outside the country of my ancestors . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Appreciate all offers , ’ said Joe , ‘ but I 'll be having my own breakfast in a little while . ’ |
| 7 | And although I have since had my own shows in West End galleries in London , the excitement of being part of the Summer Exhibition has never worn thin . |
| 8 | Is the evidence on which I base my denial of God actually non-experience , in which case how can I be sure that this is not caused by my own limitations in accessing what in reality exists ? |
| 9 | I have to report , though , that it was here my own trust in the French as the most obdurately literate of all nations was dented when I went into a bookshop and asked if they had a copy of the Song of Roland . |
| 10 | He does not , however , retract his proposal that the precepts of the imagist manifesto are still the best rules of thumb for ‘ the neophyte ’ , the beginner in his ‘ prentice-work ; and for what it is worth my own experience in the workshop certainly bears that out . |
| 11 | My own experience in Morocco , Zambia , India and Nepal is that there is an enormous variability in people 's perceptions of environmental decline . |
| 12 | The generalizations which follow are derived from my own experience in one particular sector of British society during the era 1910 to 1980 . |
| 13 | We 've had a an expose if that 's the right word of the method of appointing them , but from my own experience in my own area , where are they going to come from , what functions are they going to carry out ? |
| 14 | I have to recognise that my own findings in no way rule out the possibility . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |
| 16 | I find my own feelings in almost constant mental turmoil ; of compromise in order to live barely above the poverty line , or , in socialising when men are around , I feel they are a potential threat . |
| 17 | ‘ But I 'm scared of my own squad in terms of numbers . |
| 18 | But we 've just had somebody from Glasgow go down to do my own course in Humberside . |
| 19 | My insight into my own motivations in ‘ choosing ’ anorexia began when I read this statement : ‘ Addiction , obesity , starvation ( anorexia nervosa ) are political problems , not psychiatric ; each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual 's body . ’ |
| 20 | My own survey in Brighton indicates that GHQ scores and reported deterioration in health are highly related to the extent to which unemployed men can maintain the social contact , collective purpose , activity , time-structure and status that Jahoda identified . |
| 21 | My own attempts in the following paragraphs may well demonstrate the difficulties facing us if we had tried to write a short response to all the great present-day debates in polytechnics and universities about the status of literature . |
| 22 | and I perhaps then wax my legs or erm , but not to the extreme of having some one else involved in my improvements , I make my own improvements in my body |
| 23 | Our total vote actually went down and in areas hit by high unemployment , like my own constituency in the West Midlands , there was a swing to the Alliance of David Steel and David Owen . |
| 24 | I will have much more to say about the biochemistry of these events in the context of my own experiments in the next chapter ; I do n't want to get into great detail here but instead would emphasize that Kandel explains the reflex and its habituation and sensitization by a series of reductions . |
| 25 | Although I had always lived in a freezing cold damp house and spent a lot of my own childhood in hospital and even remember my own mum referring to our flats as pneumonia houses , in my ignorance I had never made the connection between our living conditions , ill health and the social and environmental climate . |
| 26 | I 'll build my own museum in Pittsburgh , or someplace else , or give my paintings to the National Gallery in London . |
| 27 | She says : ‘ I felt very glamorous indeed but I 'll still probably stick to making my own clothes in future . |
| 28 | I know perfectly well what responsibilities I have for the Home Office and for the actions of Home Office officials and the Minister who handled the case , and I know my own responsibility in this matter . |
| 29 | Bishop Harris , who has welcomed me so warmly , has expressed his willingness to continue on until the end of the year whilst I complete my own duties in Westminster diocese . |
| 30 | Consider then my own odyssey in relation to the Christian church . |