Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] own [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I know all that many people anyway , I suppose ; Jamie is my only real friend , though through him I have met a few people of about my own age I regard as acquaintances . |
| 2 | During my own life I have experienced many occasions when debt burdens have dominated my thoughts . |
| 3 | And although for my own part it would be my ruin , yet so great is my veneration for you , so entire my reliance on providence upon so just an occasion that I should think myself but too happy if I might be accepted . |
| 4 | Whether she ever told what she 'd found I never discovered , but for my own part I only wanted to forget the whole frightening incident . |
| 5 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 6 | Well for my own part I think that one can educate students as far as possible in terms of what appropriate behaviour is , and I think that you can police students with disciplinary measures when it 's absolutely clear that when they know what the inappropriate behaviour is they nevertheless make a choice that they 're going to move beyond those boundaries of appropriateness . |
| 7 | Mr Hay , whose company made a small profit last year , added : ‘ For my own business I think I can see faint signs of recovery . |
| 8 | ‘ Bad luck , ’ I said although for my own sake I was glad that he had failed . |
| 9 | Because I 'm already vulnerable enough where you 're concerned and for my own sake I have to hold on to some degree of control . |
| 10 | ‘ A task after 'is own heart I 'll warrant ! |
| 11 | For her own sake it was a side she could n't afford to see too often . |
| 12 | Just for her own satisfaction she pulled the very worst one she could think of — worse than any of Oz 's — with her cheeks blown out , her eyes crossed and the tip of her tongue protruding . |
| 13 | Even through her own embarrassment she was cynically aware with one part of her mind that Bert Harris 's interests would certainly not be served by going against a man as powerful as Luke . |
| 14 | Beyond these specific issues , there was an acute sense within the Essex Federation of the general threat posed by professionalism to the WEA 's essential character : and several leading voluntary members came to feel that through their own initiative they could advance the movement more effectively than any tutor-organiser . |
| 15 | The irony is that once we no longer desperately need another person but really enjoy life for its own sake we are far more likely to make a satisfying relationship . |
| 16 | Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need . |
| 17 | Monmouth Unionists backed another fund , but for their own candidate they chose the nephew of their president , Lord Tredegar . |
| 18 | Whether it 's you or one of your kith and kin who 's been too clever for their own good you can bet your bottom dollar it 'll end in tears . |
| 19 | If they do not then deny them as possible bases for their own action they defeat the very point and purpose of the arbitration . |
| 20 | For their own safety they should stand back to back so that they have a completely free field of fire over 180 degrees each . |
| 21 | The fact that there are parts of Britain which have clambered out of real poverty , and primitive housing , within the lifetime of my own generation they see as a hope and a challenge . |
| 22 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 23 | And within or without these dancing shapes and from deep within the brighter flame of my own imagination I can escape any pressure from any source . |
| 24 | As I laboured through the rest of my own meal we turned our attention to less personally charged topics , like the latest terrorist attack in Northern Ireland and the growing tension in the Lebanon . |
| 25 | Orphism appealed particularly to the Germans , since like so much of their own painting it was brightly coloured and was simultaneously a more theoretical and a more popular type of art than Cubism . |
| 26 | By using words which originated in the context of their own society they imply that the institutions of that society have some kind of privileged universality . |
| 27 | Even above the sound of their own engine she could hear the drumming beat of Oscar 's souped-up motor . |
| 28 | Now even teenagers can get a direct mail delivery of their own Check it Out ! publication . |
| 29 | To the innermost heart of their own land they are known |
| 30 | When Lars Ake Wilkstrom , Chairman of the Swedish Deaf Association , addressed the BDA Congress of 1986 at Rothesay , Scotland , and told his audience of the benefits to the Swedish deaf community from the official recognition of their own language they were astonished and excited . |