Example sentences of "my own " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also the question of my own exhaustion . |
| 2 | There was also the question of my own exhaustion . |
| 3 | My own pessimism , my insecurity , was a more terrestrial affair . |
| 4 | He finds himself ‘ considering the idea of flight ’ , and the idea of defeat : ‘ 1 suppose that , thinking of my own harassment and Raymond 's defeat , I had begun to consider Yvette a defeated person as well , trapped in the town , as sick of herself and the wasting asset of her body as I was sick of myself and my anxieties . ’ |
| 5 | The measure expresses a mean between saving and lashing-out , and it has remained a feature of my own Scots-Irish domestic economy which I would bet is widespread in northern parts . |
| 6 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 7 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 8 | It got me noticed here although I think the one-man show I did outside on my own was the real deciding factor with the RSC . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In my own case , he wrote , and I can speak only for myself , in my own case and in my own life there have been very few genuine beginnings , only three or perhaps four . |
| 11 | In my own case , he wrote , and I can speak only for myself , in my own case and in my own life there have been very few genuine beginnings , only three or perhaps four . |
| 12 | In my own case , he wrote , and I can speak only for myself , in my own case and in my own life there have been very few genuine beginnings , only three or perhaps four . |
| 13 | I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 14 | I could n't believe my ears but she repeated it : I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 15 | Sense of my own helplessness in relation to it , he wrote . |
| 16 | No element in glass to rest on my own arbitrary decision alone , he wrote . |
| 17 | Joy that my own hands had done it . |
| 18 | I 've set up my own production company now to harness the talent that 's in the city and bring more media business to Birmingham . |
| 19 | As I have read his writings , often in photocopies lent to me by friends , or in the book on his work published in 1982 , in India , I have not only come to appreciate his films in a more informed way , but I have also realized that his outlook on film-making is one which has begun to affect my own thinking . |
| 20 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 21 | I applied for the post and was interviewed by the headmaster , a man of about my own age who was ‘ mad on Puccini ’ , and consequently thrilled to bits when I recognized |
| 22 | In any event , the biggest problem for us all was my own state of depression . |
| 23 | Mona graffiti started to appear everywhere and the craze was fuelled by my own furious reaction whenever I discovered some new example of the genre . |
| 24 | My own landlord did , in fairness , give me veiled offers of money ( bribes ) to move elsewhere but in all honesty I simply was n't streetwise enough to figure out what exactly he had in mind . |
| 25 | The other person in the house moved out and I was on my own . |
| 26 | There were no decent men on my own horizons and I already feared that I would be spending my life alone . |
| 27 | Instinctively I turned away , and then I realized I was walking in the opposite direction , then running , almost tripping over my own two flat feet . |
| 28 | I watched the other passengers go on towards the passport control and the futility of my own expedition was now only too clear . |
| 29 | Look , I 've no money for a hotel so I 'd better make my own arrangements for tonight . |
| 30 | It was n't Katrina who next appeared , it was a slight woman of about my own age , Kathleen . |