Example sentences of "own [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |
2 | When I first set up home on my own I had so many bits of ill-assorted furniture that various friends and relatives had given me , that it was difficult to ever imagine having a beautiful home . |
3 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
4 | Right , the national curriculum levels I am nearly o of the opinion to be almost glib and say there will be a space that is about a third of a sheet of A four , it 's down to every department to do their own I nearly said , I do n't care , I often do care |
5 | I think I will be a very unconventional mother , and having two daughters of my own I am appalled by the cost that this is going to erm |
6 | You know I was completely on my own I , I 'd got to make my own decisions . |
7 | unclear get to buy your own I , I er did n't have rubber boots , I had big leather boots up to me thigh , that 's what I bought and that leather then they did n't have nails in the shoes in the , in the bottom they had wooden pegs , so that the , your leather was held by wooden pegs and the and the leather at that time were the thigh boots , you could roll them right the way down , . |
8 | Irina is right to say that when I lived on my own I was a lonely man . |
9 | Yeah , erm modern when in choosing a mate and er connection with that because with the assumption that males generally do n't give any parental investment what really benefit them to you know biologically can , can support the offspring themselves short period of time why ca n't they then go you know to have their own I mean |
10 | After one day on my own I am put back on trainee status . |
11 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
12 | doing their own I just take the letters I 've already written to other people change one sentence and change the er name on |
13 | The first day I could walk on my own I walked out . |
14 | And the thing is with my kids , if I was in the car on my own I could imagine chatting away |
15 | Ooh I thought he was going to , ooh I felt made me go cold and I I thought if , if I had n't been here on my own I 'd have been very tempted to go round and and say is there anything I can do . |
16 | If I 'd have been on me own I mean that 's all I was waiting for , mine to grow up so I could clear off . |
17 | If I 'd have been on me own I would n't have stopped bloody long . |
18 | They 're in a bag on their own I think . |
19 | you know , but I 'm there on my own I can pot do my hair , do what I wan na do go up the stairs , have a bath , you know , just do what I , drop my clothes where I wan na drop them and everything . |
20 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
21 | Oh if I was me and I was on my own I 'd ha I 'd have to have the telly in the bedroom . |
22 | Oh probably just did it Do you know what Terry 's do you know what one of my children did today ? do you know what did apart from the fact he spent all day crying then he had to do the corrections , I said go back and do your corrections , said right on your own I wrote something that went no homework done , so he wrote no homework done , no homework done , no homework done ! |
23 | Oh I see , yes , that 's right Well let them mark their own I mean who 's gon na cheat ? |
24 | I mean when she is , is on her own I presume she 'd go to her room if she wants ? |
25 | a room of my own I think it was , it |
26 | gon na get a couple of he ah ah tapes that we had ruined of our own I said no . |
27 | Well I think they 're so , my own I do n't mind paying a bit more for really , because they 're so last me such a long while . |
28 | I 've got my own I choose when to shut up . |
29 | That 's why when I , when I go round the video shop on my own I usually go Jordans . |
30 | Cos I do n't like going in there on my own I feel intimidated . |