Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we made love that day in your room , and I experienced my own frailty , it shook me . |
| 2 | The screws knew I was vocal and articulate and had by then got my own way to a fair extent by being incredibly polite and incredibly persistent but not actually stepping out of line . |
| 3 | ‘ Even got my own toilet . |
| 4 | I got my own home and it ai n't got a broken window . |
| 5 | Erm I must say that on the clothing scene , because I did criticize it in my earlier statements , er that when I was so young I thought it was so frumpy and I was so pleased when I was married and got my own income that , you know , I could go elsewhere and choose something . |
| 6 | As a small boy , I devised my own set of cartoon animals , and they now stood me in good stead . |
| 7 | I asked my own doctor when he came early this morning , but he would n't tell me . ’ |
| 8 | I asked my own surgeon how many of these prostate operations he did in a year , and he said around four hundred . |
| 9 | Taking this as my cue , I produced my own drawing pad and began to draw google-eyed rabbits and donkeys , with great speed . |
| 10 | I made my own way out of the station . |
| 11 | Minnie had written to her , a short and agonising note , penned with obvious difficulty , and she had replied at length , describing her — horror , Minnie , to hear of these floodings and most of all of the terrible pain which made my own insides contract in sympathy . |
| 12 | She went into the bathroom and I made my own supper by slicing some of the foul cheese and shoving it between two slices of greased plastic bread . |
| 13 | I made my own mind up . |
| 14 | I had in fact made my own labels using some vulgarly bright pink fluorescent cardboard I had found lying about . |
| 15 | It was a whole new experience , and at first it made my own feeling of being a fraud even more acute . |
| 16 | I went to them all and watched and listened and made my own judgements . |
| 17 | I should say at this point that I never read my own articles once they have appeared in print . |
| 18 | That is why I created my own festival in Salzburg each Easter . |
| 19 | As long as I maintained my own security . |
| 20 | This kind of music , of which I contributed my own part , deliberately aimed at beginning anew , ignoring the conventions of the past ; the only universal ideal was that the new music should be completely unlike whatever was heard before . |
| 21 | David as a child ‘ sustained my own idea ’ of Roderick Random , the scapegrace selfish hero of this picaresque novel , ‘ for a month at a stretch ’ , could see Roderick 's faithful servant Strap at the wicket of Blunderstone church , and when Micawber went to the King 's Bench , remembered Roderick 's imprisonment for debt ( chap . |
| 22 | When I traced my own family tree I found that the Heys had come into the parish of Penistone ( and more particularly to that part known as the township of Thurlstone where I lived ) about the year 1800 and that during the previous three centuries they had resided in Kirkburton parish immediately to the north . |
| 23 | I drew my own sword , shouting defiance and encouragement to the rest . |
| 24 | I learnt young to ignore it , built my own values . |
| 25 | The title , ‘ Future Shape of a People Business ’ , reinforced my own belief that we have experienced a three-stage evolutionary cycle . |
| 26 | I found my own level . |
| 27 | I found my own apprehension of form and my sense of humour very much the same as masons of around four hundred years before . |
| 28 | I found my own way down . |
| 29 | Yet I found my own conviction that the attempt would result in my death steadfast and stubborn . |
| 30 | I never doubted my own skill but I 'm sure the problem had something to do with my suspicions about the bike . |