Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has been a bit painful , but I thought it would probably go away if I ignored it , so I did n't bother seeing my own doctor before we sailed . ’ |
| 2 | I am enjoying my own attention ; a carpenter in a large mustard sweater , and a sweet-faced young lad with glasses . |
| 3 | He 's got to go to those trustees and let them know I 'm capable of handling my own money . ’ |
| 4 | Got cooking my own story about the Hillsborough Disaster . |
| 5 | Actually , I had fun inventing my own diet because I had gone on diets before , I 'd gone to fat farms , too , but it had never lasted . |
| 6 | Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy . |
| 7 | Finally , after reading Practical PC I am attracted by the idea of building my own computer . |
| 8 | ‘ Only I been sufferin' 'orrible suspicions about endin' up gettin' me own throat cut . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ — weaving my own bed linen and keeping bees and putting up preserves . ’ |
| 10 | I well remember attending an ecumenical garden party , minding my own business and trying to juggle a cup of weak tea and a sinewy rock cake . |
| 11 | I was sat there minding my own business , when all of a sudden that side door opened and sunlight comes flooding in under my ass . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been minding my own business , ’ Midnight said curtly , putting his hand on Jess 's shoulder . |
| 13 | One day , minding my own business as usual , I was walking down a busy main road in the afternoon when I saw a helmeted security guard standing outside a doorway . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
| 15 | I was standing in the Hemingford Arms one Friday evening , minding my own business , having a drink with a few friends , when Simon introduced me to someone he knew called Keith . |
| 16 | ‘ One day minding my own business in London ; the next , Damian Flint 's new secretary ! ’ |
| 17 | working away not minding my own business |
| 18 | His main purpose in all his studies became , as he says , that of ‘ informing and reforming my own Soul ’ . |
| 19 | I 'm opening my own business so I need a lot of money |
| 20 | can I just just pursue that you said said so the if you embarked on another scenario , and you said that the only way in which extra over , that beyond the figure proposed by the County Council , would be by way of a new settlement , I 'm sort of transgressing my own ground rules here , I know that Ryedale has expressed support for the principle of a new settlement , are you saying that you would be looking for a new settlement , possibly in Ryedale ? |
| 21 | From an enemy I am becoming my own friend . |
| 22 | This too failed , on the basis that in unlawful means conspiracy , as in conspiracy to injure , there must be an intent to injure the plaintiff , and conspiracy should not be extended ‘ beyond acts done in execution of an agreement entered into by two or more persons for the purpose not of protecting their own interests but of injuring the interests of the plaintiff . ’ |
| 23 | Significantly , 81 per cent gave protecting their own provider units a low ranking , a marked change from the previous year and in line with the case study findings . |
| 24 | ‘ Those representing developed countries were primarily interested in protecting their own industries and jobs and security at the polls , not in protecting the environment . |
| 25 | See dockers are only protected , when they say they go on strike , they 're only protecting their own jobs in my opinion . |
| 26 | They 're protecting their own jobs . |
| 27 | From 1968 , the PLO sent raiding parties into Israel from southern Lebanon and the Israelis responded by launching their own revenge raids , often against Lebanese villages . |
| 28 | The Business Start-Up scheme , which helps the unemployed in launching their own business , will be extended with the creation of 10,000 new places . |
| 29 | Yet those who sail in fragile craft should hesitate before launching their own torpedoes . |
| 30 | Things may change after April 2nd , when retail prices are to rise by 60% , though most workers are too afraid of plunging the country into chaos to give the miners whole-hearted support by staging their own strikes . |