Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked my own doctor when he came early this morning , but he would n't tell me . ’ |
| 2 | I asked my own surgeon how many of these prostate operations he did in a year , and he said around four hundred . |
| 3 | I made my own way out of the station . |
| 4 | She went into the bathroom and I made my own supper by slicing some of the foul cheese and shoving it between two slices of greased plastic bread . |
| 5 | I made my own mind up . |
| 6 | As a small boy , I devised my own set of cartoon animals , and they now stood me in good stead . |
| 7 | Taking this as my cue , I produced my own drawing pad and began to draw google-eyed rabbits and donkeys , with great speed . |
| 8 | the only one I do n't like is that bloody oh erm , what 's the other one , deep sea water , something lately for kids , his got his own kiddies programme , Maid Marian , take the piss out of |
| 9 | I passed me own brother by in the process . |
| 10 | I got my own home and it ai n't got a broken window . |
| 11 | When we made love that day in your room , and I experienced my own frailty , it shook me . |
| 12 | Yet I found my own conviction that the attempt would result in my death steadfast and stubborn . |
| 13 | I found my own way down . |
| 14 | I found my own apprehension of form and my sense of humour very much the same as masons of around four hundred years before . |
| 15 | I found my own level . |
| 16 | I provided my own float , I had nothing to do with any of the money . |
| 17 | I changed my own selection to that called out by a priest ahead of me . |
| 18 | As long as I maintained my own security . |
| 19 | That is why I created my own festival in Salzburg each Easter . |
| 20 | When I traced my own family tree I found that the Heys had come into the parish of Penistone ( and more particularly to that part known as the township of Thurlstone where I lived ) about the year 1800 and that during the previous three centuries they had resided in Kirkburton parish immediately to the north . |
| 21 | Using a similar approach I categorised my own activities as illustrated in Table 1 . |
| 22 | I drew my own sword , shouting defiance and encouragement to the rest . |
| 23 | I used his own tie as a tourniquet . |
| 24 | This kind of music , of which I contributed my own part , deliberately aimed at beginning anew , ignoring the conventions of the past ; the only universal ideal was that the new music should be completely unlike whatever was heard before . |
| 25 | But I ruined my own life — and more importantly I ruined Ashi 's too — because I refused to admit that I was what I was . ’ |
| 26 | I recognised my own handwriting and the way I would scrunch up a calendar date before throwing it away . |
| 27 | Because I recognised my own culpability in what had happened I did n't even argue the point . ’ |
| 28 | I painted my own reality ’ . |
| 29 | Inevitably , consciously , I added my own prayers to their paeons of praise . |
| 30 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |