Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me luv thee my own road , as if I was bringin' the money ‘ ome . |
| 2 | An investment of £2 could bring you your own shoal of these highly coloured fish — if you breed them yourself . |
| 3 | Leo had promised to ring me that evening in case there had been any news from the hospital ; and I told him my own news . |
| 4 | He might have done so , she reflected bitterly , had not madness made him its own monument first . |
| 5 | Inevitably , Madeleine 's name had cropped up and Harry had felt a pang of nostalgia remembering the little girl with her white dresses and long , golden plaits , laughing or stamping her foot if her brother did n't give her her own way . |
| 6 | ‘ If I must collect their newspaper , I 'll do it my own way ’ |
| 7 | But this time I will do it my own way ! ’ |
| 8 | By the reign of Richard I the industry was so important to the nation that the ‘ Stannary ’ towns ( from the Latin stannum for tin ) received their own charter , awarding them their own courts and parliament and exempting them from ordinary taxes . |
| 9 | We went in and we paid seven pounds for me and my mum to get in , we did n't pay for the kids cos if they know they 're gon na sit on your lap , they get in there for nothing , but once we get in there we give them their own chair anyway , providing you go in like it 's not in the first week , the following week when the show is quieter and not so many people going |
| 10 | ‘ Mister , you 'ave n't told me your own name . ’ |
| 11 | The barman at the Tomorrowman polished up his impersonations and looked forward to the day after tomorrow , when Rex had promised him his own show . |
| 12 | But friends and well wishers rallied round and calling themselves Ashleys army , raised enough cash to buy him his own gymnasium . |
| 13 | In addition , if women were to enter public life and achieve positions of power there they would constitute a personal challenge to the men who had hitherto had it their own way . |
| 14 | Denice shows us her own life line , which goes about halfway up her arm . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's been done before — twice when calves were born to dry mothers , the women of the household fed them their own breast-milk until they were old enough to wean . ’ |
| 16 | So that ca n't be why , when we want to tell people the truth about what 's going on , what we actually do is try to give them our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 17 | And when his standard-bearer went to give him his own beast , that too was slain beneath him . |
| 18 | They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name . |
| 19 | Next time I 'd take him his own barrel . |
| 20 | RCA is content to let the group try it their own way and win a lot of the early battles . |
| 21 | However , the success of recent policy initiatives can only be fully met if farmers find it their own interests to plant up pieces of land in such a way as to achieve both timber production and environmental improvement . |
| 22 | No , I 've always admired them for doing it their own way and getting away with it all the way to the end . |
| 23 | ‘ I intend doing it my own way but I wo n't be rocking the boat . |
| 24 | Anna taught her and made her her own maid and they lived together ever after . |
| 25 | The Navy may have given him an air of commanding responsibility , but it was his year running the Queen 's Silver Jubilee Appeal in 1977 that finally made him his own man , and not his father 's son . |
| 26 | His mother was a niece of his father , and young Frank claimed this relationship made him his own great-uncle . |
| 27 | The experience had given her her own shot of adrenalin and sleep was unthinkable . |
| 28 | I would n't leave Madley if they offered me my own travelling dressing-room . |
| 29 | Joseph can tell you his own story ’ . |
| 30 | who have , well in fact , I must ask you this would you , would you like to have a gun ? , button one for yes , button two for no , I 'll tell you my own view on this after you 've voted and nine of you say yes you would , what , what , would any body liked to say why they 'd like to have a gun ? , yes |