Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I 'm in my mid thirties and ought to know my own mind by now , but I 'm scared of the commitment . |
| 2 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 3 | Individuals in the party and the government came to use the situation in whatever way they could to optimize their own position , ranging from exercising the increased power which district and regional officials now had over the citizenry , to carrying out routine tasks perfunctorily while acquiring a significant income from black market activities . |
| 4 | She made herself breathe through her mouth as slowly as she could to hush her own sounds , and inhaled the odours of the earth with her own warm respiration . |
| 5 | We took up the coathanger as our symbol — one of the grim tools women used to induce their own abortions before the operation was legalized — and we vowed that no more women should die , become maimed or made permanently sterile as a result of trying to get an abortion . |
| 6 | This sequence of events is already prefigured in a claim made by Schiller that he used to conceive his own poetry in and through a " musical mood " . |
| 7 | So I used to encourage his own poetry , and his ideas for poetic themes , even when I knew they were poor or did not interest me . |
| 8 | The Guv'nor used to brew his own beer in those days as most people did . ’ |
| 9 | And another bloke that used to drink his own Number One . " |
| 10 | ROS : ( Flaring ) I have n't forgotten — how I used to remember my own name — and yours , oh yes ! |
| 11 | the real old gardeners and I mean well every house had one because they used to grow their own vegetables did n't they ? |
| 12 | It was only a a grass seed and they used to grow their own grass seed and just bought the clover seed . |
| 13 | ‘ Buster 's one of my heroes , ’ he said , ‘ and I 've admired the way he and other old-timers used to do their own stunts . |
| 14 | so it 's all hot on the plate and served straight away you know , luckily erm I managed it but I got in a little bit of a flap I will admit it whereas Shirl 's now got used to that I mean I when we first came we both used to do our own help each other out I used to help out but erm |
| 15 | Elizabeth Lady Williams , mother of the present baronet , used to field her own XI . |
| 16 | They did n't do I I understand that the the quarries at and and those places used to cast their own stuff , but erm I I have n't I never heard of them actually casting anything erm ferrous anyway . |
| 17 | But the butchers shop was er a very well known shop , and er I remember very well we used to go into there er of course when things were re were really poor , you 'd go into the butchers shop in the middle of the week perhaps about Thursday and erm they used to sell they used to cook their own meats then of course you know , pressed beef and all that sort of thing and I remember this beautiful big white erm well it 'd be a ceramic dish affair on a stand , used to have a big piece of this pressed beef in it , cutting it off , and all the little bits used to fall round the side , well them come Thursday when only got a shilling in your pocket or your parents had got a couple of shillings left , you got to fetch two pennyworth of the bits of the pressed beef that had fallen round the pan , and that was a meal . |
| 18 | Every farm used to have its own cider mill . |
| 19 | It used to have its own coaching house approached along a tree-lined route from the main house . |
| 20 | Well after the , the aircraft had actually er left the airport to go , be handed back to the RAF they said sometimes had to be serviced or final adjustments made and that 's what they used to go out there for but erm Helliwells was ver it was still , all through the war it was Helliwells aircraft they used to have their own lorries and everything and they used to erm , be under the auspices of the Air Ministry but it was very much a private company . |
| 21 | Posters are far more difficult to monitor : in the past , agencies used to have their own teams of inspectors , but this is no longer done , and the only real check on the presence and condition of posters is a regular service run for the past 10 years by the Poster Advertising Bureau , which reports on the level of damage to posters , as a stimulus to the contractors to take care of their sites . |
| 22 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 23 | It bears out the straightforwardness of parent comments , too , in its report of how they regard headteachers , good and bad , as in these examples ( SED 1989:7 — 11 ) : The parents used to have their own meeting room . |
| 24 | ‘ He [ Lord Rendlesham ] used to have his own coffee — I suppose you would call them plantations would you ? |
| 25 | Well I used to have me own office down at Cliff Quay . |
| 26 | When I got old enough I used to add my own bits to the story — it was sort of a game we played — an escape . |
| 27 | Helmets and unbelted tunics were for the despised ‘ county men ’ , ‘ those sheep-dippers up the road in the sticks ’ whom we continually used to reassert our own status by looking on them as ‘ hicksville country cousins ’ and definitely not ‘ real polises ’ . |
| 28 | Gone is that blue-stocking look where I was sure she used to cut her own hair . |
| 29 | Not long afterwards a consortium of Victorian entrepreneurs concluded that the exhibition business was a growth industry and that north London ought to have its own Crystal Palace . |
| 30 | And I came to the conclusion that we ought to develop our own music , and let the natural children of rock — the Europeans and North Americans — do their own thing . |