Example sentences of "[pron] own [noun] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I served on the Committee which dealt with what is now the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , in the hope that I could draw on my own experience as chairman of the Cardiff juvenile bench , and as someone who had worked with young offenders . |
| 3 | I never did discover who he was , the son of the house or just another guest , and my own obtuseness and incuriosity now appear to me more revealing than anything else of my state at the time . |
| 4 | My own position and title has also been varied , ( most recently being called ‘ Language Enhancement Coordinator ’ ! ) |
| 5 | In the course of my own childhood and adolescence my immediate family went through several changes , mostly involving separation and loss , but at the same time certain factors remained constant . |
| 6 | I did my own cooking and shopping . |
| 7 | I was soon turning in more stories of my own choice and selection than those by regular assignment . |
| 8 | ‘ Bernard gave me four new tyres for my own car as payment but kept saying , ‘ I 'm going to open a big factory one day and have you as works ' manager ’ . ’ |
| 9 | I shall soon lose my own face and character for ever . |
| 10 | Neither have I been someone who devotes an enormous amount of time to the care of my own face and figure . |
| 11 | What was clear from my own research and experience was that all of these ‘ crazes ’ or student ‘ tides ’ , along with a few others , existed side by side in 1988 . |
| 12 | I usually play with my own phrasing and kind of jazz it up a little . |
| 13 | Voiced : ‘ My own vine and fig tree . ’ |
| 14 | An artist I met that evening at Dr Caskie 's suggested that I exchange my tourist food permit for a civil emergency ration card , and do my own marketing and cooking . |
| 15 | Incidentally , I listen for my own information and education to the early recordings of the Busch quartet to get the measure of what can be achieved , and what pianissimo and dolce really mean . |
| 16 | But at this stage I could manage without it , without breaking the overall aim of carrying my own food and water . |
| 17 | I came from a B-Cat prison where I had my own basin and toilet . |
| 18 | My own flesh and blood stands against my will . |
| 19 | That I had n't forgotten he was my own flesh and blood , but that sometimes you owe more to strangers . |
| 20 | My own flesh and blood and I 'm Dot interested to hear of her ? ’ |
| 21 | I know she 's my own flesh and blood , but I hope she got whatever was coming to her . |
| 22 | My own flesh and blood to rebel ! |
| 23 | All I can say in my defence is that at this point in history , I find it useful to do two things with my own writing and speech . |
| 24 | ‘ But the fact is that my own mother and father lived in Innes Place in their first house after they were married . |
| 25 | He 'd expected it , he added , since he noticed that I had my own plate and cup at work , and bought tea for whoever was sitting with me . |
| 26 | A pretty sentence indeed ! but my feathery head is blazing with the stupidity of all this together with my own unamiability and ungentleness of behaviour . |
| 27 | When I realised there was nothing else to do in the world but write my own songs and play , that 's when I brought them out and did them . |
| 28 | Well I have to establish my own virtue and distinction . |
| 29 | As a new member of the organization I will have to reconcile the expectations of others , including the systems imposed on me , with my own theories and understanding of how the world works . |
| 30 | My own view that Sun readers are n't stupid and that the general public is n't really a stupid erm but erm they enjoy reading it and they 're reading for the experience of reading , getting their views and are very almost like , have you ever seen processed cheese slabs , you know you can buy little pieces of cheese in little wrappers that stick on your bread or your butter or your rolls and the way the Sun , the Sun newspaper 's kind of like that , if you do n't wan na read thirty five pages in the Independent every day , enormous amount of news terrifically written , reported for the , for the most part , you could read the Sun at a quarter of the price , except that you do n't get all the news and you also get er a different political viewpoint but it 's one way of getting news in er |