Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes the one I 've got is I just bought my own from W H Smith , which has all that , little pockets for plans and so on . |
| 2 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 3 | I du n no why , but when I was in the army I always picked , I never , I , I I always picked my own pit , you know . |
| 4 | I still like my own method . |
| 5 | I still add my own research , and usually something will come up during the course of the interview that means you can leave the game plan anyway . |
| 6 | I still add my own research , and usually something will come up during the course of the interview that means you can leave the game plan anyway . |
| 7 | I usually make my own curtains but a few years ago I decided to make use of a free making-up service offered by a large department store . |
| 8 | I also wore my own garments with pride and let it be known that I would knit for others if they wished . |
| 9 | By then , I also had my own bread . |
| 10 | I now regard my own receding hair with a little more hope . |
| 11 | I then took my own aircraft to Kalafrana , landed and moored onto the slipway buoy . |
| 12 | This band had such an enormous impact on the rock world in the late '60s , and it was only some years later that I fully appreciated my own debt , realising that for a ( heavy ) rock band , Zep often had an underlying funkiness , due in large part to the style of J.P.J. which allowed for some very subtle and interesting grooves . |
| 13 | Lady Merstam has explained to me her lifelong desire to protect your reputation , Mrs Copley , and I fully understand your own wish to protect your husband from information which would , a … hurt him . |
| 14 | I lovingly create my own reality . |
| 15 | I actually have my own goal to win one of the Grand Slam tournaments as soon as possible . |
| 16 | In other words , could I truly visualize my own death ? |
| 17 | I should say at this point that I never read my own articles once they have appeared in print . |
| 18 | I never doubted my own skill but I 'm sure the problem had something to do with my suspicions about the bike . |
| 19 | Oh yes , and er of course mostly , in these outlying districts , you mostly grew your own vegetables . |
| 20 | Comfortable when taking charge of situations and people , she skilfully uses her own enthusiasm and initiative to motivate others . |
| 21 | When you eventually had your own gallery , did you start by showing Constructivist Art ? |
| 22 | ‘ You only have your own narrow vision — and that 's not usually a good thing . |
| 23 | If your father dies and you are helping your widowed mother with these matters , you can assure her that not only will she not lose her own retirement pension , but that it may be paid at an increased rate after her husband 's death . |
| 24 | Henri-Patrick had black hair like his father , but Lucille fancied she already saw her own family 's long skull in the baby 's wrinkled face . |
| 25 | If you already have your own company sick pay scheme , it must pay the employee at least what he or she would have been entitled to on SSP . |
| 26 | Hopefully , you already have your own ideas , but if you have n't , you might start by attempting a rough calculation of the average spend per customer . |
| 27 | A classic instance of this is ‘ The Head-Ach ’ , in which she humorously compares her own writing of poetry with a friend 's gossip . |
| 28 | Why do you not want our own place ? ’ |
| 29 | Do you not acknowledge your own lives to be fictions ? |
| 30 | Yeah but you , how can you not have your own ? |