Example sentences of "[adv] my own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This reference to the task of childhood is rather my own effort to develop Spinoza 's own richly fruitful but rather abstract ideas in more concrete terms than a direct report upon what he says — the same goes for some other of my remarks . ) |
| 2 | Luckily my own wife has n't called . ’ |
| 3 | But do n't dilly-dally for too long ; once it 's published we are all going to look a little risible if we have made no adjustments to what is after all known as being predominantly my own design of gallery . |
| 4 | By this , he did not mean that truth is simply subjective , merely my own opinion , what I happen to like to regard as true . |
| 5 | ‘ I was much like you — infatuated with my own talent , worshipping only my own intellect … |
| 6 | It also has to hinder to recognition of what the needs of the people of the city are and I actually cast out , wipe out services and the needs of central administration which is essential to any council and I would hope that not only my own back this amendment . |
| 7 | In doing so , I should prove not only my own worth , but that of my immediate family , of the people of Lewis and of all MacLeods everywhere . |
| 8 | Since then I 've been very much my own man . |
| 9 | This is so much my own trouble that I did n't want my husband 's name to come into it . |
| 10 | What I do — and who I do it with — is very much my own business . ’ |
| 11 | ( ’ I do all my own servicing , so my garage bills are nowhere near £300 . ’ ) |
| 12 | ‘ But I am neither so foolish , nor so quixotic — nor , I may add , is my mind and resolution of so high an order ! — as to deprive myself entirely of the opportunity to better my own lot . |
| 13 | ‘ If I 'm not it was entirely my own idea , so I can hardly complain . ’ |
| 14 | It may be easier to be fearful of all sorts of things than to be honest and say to yourself : ‘ The way I feel is entirely my own problem . |
| 15 | ‘ My actions and my choice of companions are entirely my own affair , and frankly I do n't see any reason to divulge any information about either . ’ |
| 16 | It 's entirely my own fault if there are consequences . ’ |
| 17 | I must emphasise that this is entirely my own opinion and that the Board of Customs has stated as a matter of policy that there are no plans or intentions to arm customs officers or the cutters . |
| 18 | I had no such problem with the village of Fairacre , about which I also wrote , for that was entirely my own creation . |
| 19 | at home , so my own lemonade . |
| 20 | I was amazed that someone should have such big ambitions for a group like ours , but the ideas were getting through and soon my own expectations increased . |
| 21 | Not for just my own children but for my own health . |
| 22 | I knew that the only time I had actually seen them was when I had wiped or picked away my own pus . |
| 23 | I fear , however , that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls , I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations ; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out , I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin . |
| 24 | ’ It 's no exactly my own idea of good taste and I could do wi' a suit that 's a better fit , but beggars can nae be choosers , as they say . |
| 25 | It also brought home my own mortality — it suddenly seemed very easy to get your head blown off . ’ |
| 26 | She wrote that without the challenge of some who were Christians of a particular persuasion , " I would not have been aware of how deeply my own assumptions had constructed the fantasy that I had desired " ( Kathy Raban in Hammond et al. |
| 27 | I know exactly the sort of person I want to marry , someone with a mind like G.P. 's , only much nearer my own age , and with the looks I like . |
| 28 | Needless to say , I was treated like a crank , was completely ignored by the so-called ‘ experts ’ and in general was subjected to ridicule by people who ought to know better , namely my own family ! |
| 29 | ‘ It was partly my own fault . |
| 30 | ‘ It was was partly my own fault , ’ said Gookey , ‘ but it 's not as if I did n't attempt to register . |