Example sentences of "[conj] my own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . |
| 2 | The sleeping-car attendant sighed deeply at so much opulent femininity and philosophically returned to his roomette , and I went on up the train into the next car , where my own bed lay . |
| 3 | Does it help me to make sense of the atmosphere in my school , or my own feelings ? |
| 4 | Or my own boy . |
| 5 | Without any consideration for my talents — such as they were — or my own wishes — never expressed — he had decided my path . |
| 6 | Baulked through my lack of means of anywhere that would have corresponded to my Aunt Anna 's notions of gentility or my own aspirations , I found myself in an area of bleak but populous streets lined with smoke-blackened tenement blocks south of the river . |
| 7 | What has happened to me in the group is that my own perceptions of myself and others have been modified by group norms , which may only be mine marginally . |
| 8 | I have to recognise that my own findings in no way rule out the possibility . |
| 9 | Later , to my surprise , I heard that my own letters were still in existence . |
| 10 | For my part , I am desolated that my own forays into the grown-up world of politics have marred Mr Lejeune 's potential enjoyment of Jeeves and Wooster . |
| 11 | This was a difficult doctrine to establish , particularly since it was pointed out that my own activities were not remunerated in any such way ; but nevertheless I found an impossible inconsistency in remaining an adviser to a profession that outraged this important principle . |
| 12 | I would hope that my own work could be situated within this debate . |
| 13 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 14 | I was sad and angry that he should want to place a bolt and go so radically against the grain ; sympathetic with Dave 's strong conviction ; peeved that my own route — Centrefold — had been usurped . |
| 15 | And I must add here that my own skin also became smoother and whilst at times I used to suffer from dry skin , strangely I no longer do . |
| 16 | I see no reason , in the light of these reports , to abandon the conclusion that my own experience of life in the islands has led me to . |
| 17 | I can only say that my own experience is quite the reverse . |
| 18 | At that moment of jubilation I realised that my own philosophy on life and that of football management go hand in foot . |
| 19 | I thereupon obtained from him the name of the solicitor instructed by Randolph , telephoned him and said that my own firm would accept service of the writ . |
| 20 | Erm , on page thirty you talk about the erm Employer 's Federation in the er minimum terms and conditions , well I 'm only hoping that my own firm Securicor do n't have any er input into that , because er as you know they unilaterally reduced all the terms and conditions Securicor guarding and cleaning recently erm I 'd like to know when we intend meeting with Securicor Cleaner I do know you 've written to them on a number of occasions and their refusal to meet with us . |
| 21 | I should add that my own understanding of literature is largely in aesthetic terms ; at least , of poetry ; where fiction and drama are concerned , aesthetic approaches can , at best , only be partial . |
| 22 | I am happy to report that my own horse Turnip is feeling extremely well in herself , as the Irish say , following her minor tendon injury . |
| 23 | I have to confess at this point that my own sensitivity to psychic phenomena is scarcely higher than that of a slab of concrete . |
| 24 | Thus rebuffed , Wilson was willing to consider that my own formula — inadequate and clumsy as it was — might at least be presented to the union . |
| 25 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 26 | I have become convinced that our whole approach is hopelessly unscientific , in fact wrong , and particularly that my own reconstruction is so fundamentally flawed that we really do n't have the right to be displaying it anywhere except in a Disneyland type of amusement park . ’ |
| 27 | In fact I 've decided that my own preoccupation with the state of Diana and Charles 's marriage is rather hypocritical when my own , if examined under a public microscope , would look pretty ghastly . |
| 28 | ‘ But the fact is that my own mother and father lived in Innes Place in their first house after they were married . |
| 29 | I believe that my own children have rebelled properly and decently , and found their own paths . |
| 30 | I am glad that my own children are beyond primary age and will not have to suffer from the effects of this campaign , which looks increasingly like political dogma forced into the classroom . |