Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was my own man and played the way I believed because we lacked talent in certain areas . |
| 2 | I was my own company er does management training and I wo n't touch the TECs |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was my own mistress — and so on . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then the Cid clapt spurs to the mule upon which he rode , and vaulted into a piece of ground which was his own inheritance , and answered , Sir , I am not in your land , but in my own . |
| 7 | The ultimate insult had been thrown at him : he , the Maître Auguste Didier , had been obliged , nay commanded , not only to appear in Dickensian dress but to don the unmistakable apparel of Alexis Soyer : tight white drill trousers , matching tunic , short jacket , ridiculous cummerbund , slotted into which was his own kitchen knife ( no doubt for a speedy self-martyrdom after the imminent disaster of this meal ) and , worse , the horror on his head . |
| 8 | ‘ Timothy wore a lounge suit , which was his own choice . ’ |
| 9 | And they had always treated Liz — the same age as Laura — just as though she were their own child . |
| 10 | Louis reallocated Orléans and Blois to the brothers Odo and William , men who were his own mother 's kin and also allies of Bernard , and probably Tours to Vivian , one of the local nobility . |
| 11 | Two men who were his own uncles . |
| 12 | Yet the first step had been taken , and an inexpressible sadness closed in upon him , as if he had stripped himself wantonly of the children who were his own flesh . |
| 13 | ‘ Though I know the Princesse loves you as if you were her own child . |
| 14 | I have cared for you as if you were my own family ! ’ |
| 15 | A foreigner accepted as if you were his own father . |
| 16 | She certainly did not live in the shadow of John ; she was her own person and deserved to be described as more than a widow . |
| 17 | He had said he might be late , after all , and she decided to snatch a few more moments of privacy to recharge her batteries in the one place in the whole luxurious house where she was able to relax and feel she was her own person . |
| 18 | But behind everything she did was a raw power that emphasised she was her own woman . |
| 19 | Maybe Vanessa Vail was n't such a bad fantasy after all : she might die , but at least she was her own woman . |
| 20 | She was about the only girl here who was his own age . |
| 21 | He would only ever , he sensed , be able to pair with a woman who was his own match — professionally , as it were . |
| 22 | She shared her home with Irina and me and watched over us as fiercely as if we were her own children . |
| 23 | In an empire where no one was his own master except the Inca , was it socialism or a dictatorship which prevailed ? |
| 24 | ‘ And then perhaps , ’ conceded the Superintendent , ‘ there was our own St Manicus , killed , as legend has it , by a madman who thought himself an executioner . ’ |
| 25 | It seems that the only people who did n't like him were his own family . |
| 26 | On the other hand , though the knights of the count of Vendôme ( see p. 230 ) were heavily burdened with castle-guard and military service , their obligation was clearly defined , and once fulfilled , they were their own masters . |
| 27 | They had to pull their weight , but they brought up one or two who had lost their parents just as if they were their own children . |
| 28 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 29 | But the point was , they were our own rules . |
| 30 | The only thing that ‘ rang bells ’ for him was his own consciousness — Djwa 's ‘ experience ’ — and most of all the inner experiences which had always dominated his vision — his ‘ inner landscape ’ . |