Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at [pos pn] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not gon na move over and I am going at my own pace , so I slowed down to about twenty miles an hour and it 's a road about four miles long and er he just could n't get past , you know ? |
| 2 | This they are doing at their own speed through a process of education and development , ensuring that Oman is run by Omanis , and not by foreign powers with distant interests . |
| 3 | and then it 'll just , it 'll just be titivated up really , so we can live in it and then the back room can just be done at our own time . |
| 4 | The result was a painting of " flying cyclamens " , one of the earliest to be sold at her own first exhibition a year later . |
| 5 | The bulk of the transfers have been made to the governments of the less developed regions to be used at their own discretion . |
| 6 | Spells may be cast at your own character to increase ability . |
| 7 | He seemed to be sitting at his own centre , in the innermost room of his heart , as he heard the words . |
| 8 | It was the work of John and Jacob Brett their cable being ‘ … made up merely of wire insulated by gutta percha ’ 4 , the whole effort being undertaken at their own expense . |
| 9 | In failing to match their forebodings about vicious circles with effective solutions for breaking them , economists risk being played at their own game . |
| 10 | Paul Merton is clearly being outdone at his own specialist brand of humour : being plain and uncouth and mad as well , to the point of hilarity . |
| 11 | Katherine found herself smiling happily as if the compliment were directed at her own home . |
| 12 | In my experience people will forgive a lot of things , but not being beaten at their own game by someone they 've always looked upon as a caricature . ’ |
| 13 | The observations made there by Lee , his friends and assistants were published at his own expense in several volumes . |
| 14 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 15 | The Secretary of State is yawning at his own speech it is so boring . |
| 16 | In 1953 he was placed at his own request on the Academy 's retired list . |
| 17 | As the two British scientists wrote their reports through the night , Sam Somerville was received at her own request by the committee in the Situation Room beneath the West Wing . |
| 18 | He was discovered by his father , who at first did n't realise he was looking at his own son . |
| 19 | And he was looking at his own face . |
| 20 | He was buried at his own request , in Glasgow . |
| 21 | The Ipswich equaliser came following a disputed corner , but Dalglish 's fury was directed at his own defence rather than the match official . |
| 22 | Like all his books until Prancing Nigger ( 1924 ) , it was published at his own expense and to negligible acclaim . |