Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tolonen 's appointment as General would certainly help in that regard , but I must also show them that I am my own man , not merely my father 's shadow . |
| 2 | There is one place where I can say I am at home , where I can live in peace and quiet with my most beloved father and my dearest sister , where I can do as I like , where apart from the duties of my appointment I am my own master , and where I have a permanent income and yet can go off when I like , and travel every second year … |
| 3 | I long for my canvas and easel where I am my own master and the world is my own . ’ |
| 4 | For example own ( I am my own master ) or ( the ) very ( That 's the very thing I 've been looking for ! ) . |
| 5 | I am the fountain sealed up , the walled garden where the lord Christ takes his rest at noon ; I am my Own grille and enclosure and the desperate bride vowed to him who blesses my chains . |
| 6 | I am my own mistress and I can walk out of here tomorrow if I want . |
| 7 | I am my own woman , and — ’ |
| 8 | I 'm me own huntsman today . ’ |
| 9 | And since I 'm my own boss , my hours are flexible . |
| 10 | We discovered a mutual interest , and , as I 'm my own boss , I offered to catalogue some of his collection , and do some shopping in very pleasant surroundings . |
| 11 | ‘ Nobody tells Otley Craven what to do — I 'm my own man . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm my own man , ’ he says . |
| 13 | I 'm my own man and that 's very important in these times , even if you have n't had the problems I 've had , and you have n't , because that 's perfectly obvious , you 're sitting there and asking me the questions . |
| 14 | I 'm my own man . |
| 15 | I feel secure in the sense that I 'm my own sort of person and I feel loved by Lucy . |
| 16 | I 'm my own woman , Lucenzo , so do n't you or Corosini ever forget that . ’ |
| 17 | What the mother finally decides to do will probably result from the opinion of someone else — whether that someone is her own mother , the local midwife or whichever childcare expert happens to be in vogue at the time . |
| 18 | I was my own man and played the way I believed because we lacked talent in certain areas . |
| 19 | I was my own company er does management training and I wo n't touch the TECs |
| 20 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 21 | I was my own mistress — and so on . |
| 22 | It is interesting to note that in the last analysis it is evil which is its own undoing . |
| 23 | Later , in a company or people whose paths have crossed throughout the day , promising each other further meetings as they prepare , with a sort of leisured bustle which is its own end , for some special occasion , I stroll down the hard stamped dirt roads from which the heat of day is withdrawing . |
| 24 | At the one step beyond , where one imagines glimpses of a final formulation , thinking is no longer a source of satisfaction or even a rational activity , it is a form of torture , a sacrilege which is its own punishment . |
| 25 | Medically , they will surely pull her ears to destruction , which is her own problem , but , televisually , they pull the viewer 's eyes to distraction , which is ours . |
| 26 | The owner , Petra Zuidinga prides herself in the decor which is her own design and you are guaranteed a warm welcome and comfortable stay . |
| 27 | no particular reason for the rise its general movements and not a serious movement as far as we 're concerned includes the whole element of debtors from ourselves to our wholesale debtors which is our own manufacturing operation where they 're selling to outside customers there 's nothing particularly significant in that . |
| 28 | Uhm , no , I er I 've sort of started off and I 've got so far down and er I love the drawing that Freda Rudman from Stanford-in-the-Vale has done of their village , and er and of course I like the Harwell entry , which is my own village , but there 's certainly some very nice entries in , some very good entries in . |
| 29 | The importance of the child ( which is his own creation ) is significant in the essence of hopefulness that is communicated in lines such as : ‘ Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee ’ . |
| 30 | Since childhood , since her early school days , New Year 's Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror : she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life , the solid , cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others . |