Example sentences of "our own " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had none of the socially sterile attitude towards art which we adopt in our own culture . |
| 2 | We will learn by our own experience what is best , and not by following the dogmatism of another . |
| 3 | Part of the critic 's task in the nineteenth century , as now , was to interpret art for the lay public ; but what , artists asked themselves , if we interpreted our own work ? from such a thought sprang statements of artistic aims and manifestos , some using the new device of naming a group with a progressive title , such as futurism . |
| 4 | But we must have the right to carry out our duty to impart the moral convictions , the moral teaching of our Church to our own members . |
| 5 | This is the only hope for the conservation of pubs from a period with planning ideas so remote from our own . |
| 6 | This is of course in our own interests . ’ |
| 7 | In our own good time . |
| 8 | We 've got enough troubles of our own in Calleshire . ’ |
| 9 | In spite of her own feminism and socialism her films are not propagandist or didactic , as she was very well aware that : ‘ We were not engaged to indulge our own politics or socialism , however much we would have found satisfaction in doing so ’ . |
| 10 | We all wore these aprons as a uniform and to protect our own clothes while we were working . |
| 11 | There were only three divisions in the city — east , west , and central — and each of us in our own division knew we were the élite ; for just as the men in the west were certain they were best , so the men from the east remained convinced of their own superiority . |
| 12 | We could purchase our own houses while they lived in police colonies , denied the privilege of house purchase until they had fifteen years ' service ; this classified them as ‘ peasants , serfs , living in the feudal world of tithed cottages ’ . |
| 13 | Helmets and unbelted tunics were for the despised ‘ county men ’ , ‘ those sheep-dippers up the road in the sticks ’ whom we continually used to reassert our own status by looking on them as ‘ hicksville country cousins ’ and definitely not ‘ real polises ’ . |
| 14 | Like the county ‘ sheepdippers ’ and the borough men , both the specials and the British Transport Police were used to sustain a view of our own preeminence . |
| 15 | The changing values attributed to our own private delicts such as divorce , slander , adultery , debt , libel , blasphemy , obedience to church , and the like , have turned some earlier ‘ crimes ’ into matters now governed by other social mores . |
| 16 | We had moved to the edges of our previously closed system of thought and action , both physically and philosophically , and almost implicitly came to recognize that the ‘ foundation metaphors ’ which Turner identifies as being crucial to transformational experience of liminality were making paradigmatic statements about our own cultural format ; although I know we would have been unable to articulate this . |
| 17 | These inevitably came to influence our own structures of significance and were made apparent by changes in our own subculture of style . |
| 18 | These inevitably came to influence our own structures of significance and were made apparent by changes in our own subculture of style . |
| 19 | In effect we defined our own ‘ real work ’ and those activities we felt should have credence were given priority , so the role we pursued simply evolved . |
| 20 | We had better torment our own man next . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Add this : ‘ and this we shall do of our own free will and accord ’ . ’ |
| 22 | Now , Robertson , add this : ‘ of our own free will and accord — as we shall answer to God . ’ |
| 23 | You know that Alastair split and cut these planks on our own saw-bed . |
| 24 | ‘ Ach — I was sure he would be with you — we could have taken our own time then . |
| 25 | And our own people here have never heard the word at all … |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe we stretched too far beyond our own place , ’ Menzies hazarded at last . |
| 27 | Near home , in our own place . |
| 28 | Why do you not want our own place ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I said they would — I said we should find our own refuge ! ’ |
| 30 | The clans are gone and we stray about , waifs in our own homeland , letting government suck us in and swallow us and spew us out on foreign shores . |