Example sentences of "[adv] in [pron] own time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only gradually were these treacherous areas brought into profitable use from peat digging to farming or , especially in our own time , for afforestation . |
| 2 | A part-time probation officer may do so in his own time provided that he has not previously been concerned with the child and his family in a professional capacity . |
| 3 | Fangorn agrees when he says of his own dying species , ‘ songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way , and sometimes they are withered untimely ’ . |
| 4 | D'Indy may be excused for missing the point of Rameau 's ‘ tied ’ and slurred crotchets : only in our own time has it been realised that these denote the kind of tremolo recently studied by Stewart Carter . |
| 5 | They came down in their own time , after they 'd left off work , and they 'd have a small job done ; and then they 'd take it back ready for work the next morning . |
| 6 | As an independent soul you usually prefer to plod along in your own time . |
| 7 | Here was a creative writer of great historical importance in vernacular Italian , as also in neo-Latin ; one who played a crucial role in the promulgating of manuscripts of lost classical texts which embodied the ancient culture and could propagate that culture anew in his own time ; whose creative writing variously reflected the new access to ancient literature ; and whose overall achievement helped to ensure that classical scholarship , in its work of reclaiming the ancient world , became not merely a prestigious activity , but a central and formative activity in contemporary culture as a whole . |
| 8 | Personally , I do not share that view but whatever the reason , stubbornness must not be allowed to succeed : the dog must do what he is commanded to do , not in his own time , when he feels like it , but immediately ; and if it is done correctly , he should receive praise and lots of it . |
| 9 | JB : I painted mostly in my own time , and it 's been like that all along . |
| 10 | When the puppy comes to your calling its name , reward it with a titbit , then put his lead on in your own time , praising and stroking it . |
| 11 | Then gradually slip the open bag into the tank , and allow the fish to swim out in their own time . |
| 12 | He 'll find out in his own time . |
| 13 | Best to ignore him and let him come around in his own time . |
| 14 | 16.32 Teachers should encourage pupils to read independently in their own time , and to discuss with others their own favourite reading . |
| 15 | IT SEEMS that even in its own time the thirteenth-century motet was considered by many to be a sophisticated , subtle genre , only likely to appeal to the literati . |
| 16 | And as far as Greg could judge there were a great many writers who had found a place in the book who were quite as obscure or more so — poets whose flame had died with the end of the war , one-off playwrights whose experimental verse dramas had caused no more than a ripple of interest even in their own time . |
| 17 | Not really my i idea of a journey is to get there in your own time , you do n't have to fucking speed everywhere ! |
| 18 | Like genii , too , they must be uncorked in a dark room to dance briefly in their own time , before receding into the invisible world of memory again . |