Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pictured with him is the group 's chairman , Tony Edwards one of 22 mainly unemployed people who are building their own homes during the project . |
| 2 | These dimensions have been tested ergonomically , and are designed to fit in with standard appliances , so they provide a useful guide if you are building your own units instead of buying ready-made . |
| 3 | ‘ We are building our own garden , thanks to a grant from the Merseyside Environmental Trust . |
| 4 | You will certainly need to experiment with exposure periods if you are coating your own boards with a UV sensitive aerosol lacquer . |
| 5 | But now they are defying their own interests too . |
| 6 | We can infer from this that when the authors concerned start out to describe the institutions of an alien exotic social system they are using their own society as a model of normality . |
| 7 | I mean my , one of my friend 's sons , he was a computer man , he was working on his own but he 's in his I should think he 's getting on for about forty six and he was doing freelance but this recession the people who er the firms who were employing him are using their own staff and they 're not calling on him now and er he 's not done any computing for twelve months . |
| 8 | With this approach , the language experience approach , the learners ’ interest is held because they are using their own words and telling their own story . |
| 9 | If you are using your own office rather than an interview room , arrange for telephone calls to be intercepted and make sure you are not disturbed or distracted while interviewing . |
| 10 | The children are producing their own spelling dictionary which is freely available to the whole class . |
| 11 | And although overseas sales are steadily growing , many countries , such as the US , Germany , Italy , and the UK , are producing their own robots , and using them innovatively in a variety of non-manufacturing applications . |
| 12 | I am enjoying my own attention ; a carpenter in a large mustard sweater , and a sweet-faced young lad with glasses . |
| 13 | Individualists who deny that these claims explain anything at all are , in effect , simply reasserting the hegemony of the interest from which individualism draws its life , while holists are pursuing their own concern with the constraining power of society . |
| 14 | Mr Coulter said : ‘ It is becoming clear that building societies are pursuing their own interests by rescheduling loans or entering into shared ownership agreements , rather than biting the bullet of low interest loans to housing associations . ’ |
| 15 | It 's a story that 's been told thousands of times since Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol , and now a group of disabled students from Herefordshire Technical college 's assisted learning unit are staging their own version . |
| 16 | Er , it is important too , to stress that the Agency is acting as a bridge between the purchasing er , authority , the Social Services Department , and the er , independent sector , and that er , it 's also important that er , too , that er , in many cases , er , the provider 's income er , will , will not just come from Social Services , but it may be that people are purchasing their own care , if , if they 're not eligible for public , public 's er , help through , through funding , and therefore the scheme is much wider than just looking at the purchasing intentions of the , the Social Services Department . |
| 17 | From an enemy I am becoming my own friend . |
| 18 | Demonstrate , in talking about fiction and poetry , that they are developing their own views and can support them by reference to some details in the text , eg when talking about characters and actions in fiction . |
| 19 | Demonstrate in talking and writing about literature that they are developing their own views and can support them when appropriate by reference to the text , eg in making judgements of characters and their actions , or when building upon those characters and events in their own writing . |
| 20 | By giving up their lives to protect their nest mates , they are promoting their own genes through their relatives . |
| 21 | For him all vices are forms of mental illness , for vicious action is always a matter of submission to impulses which are seeking their own satisfaction at the expense of the satisfaction of the whole . |
| 22 | This means any class taken on a voluntary basics , classes paid for by a private concern , ( W.I. T.W.G. sports sections of firms etc. ) , are hiring your own premises and running a class , or are coaching any display team . |
| 23 | So do you think you 're inventing your own tradition , which is a perfectly time honoured and respectable thing to do , or do you think you 're harking back to an old tradition or or what ? |
| 24 | but , but I mean you can only make it worse by like you say , you 're wasting your own time and money |
| 25 | ‘ Well , if it 's on again , and you 're using your own pony , you 've a horse to spare . ’ |
| 26 | you 're interrupting your own journey as well . |
| 27 | They 're protecting their own jobs . |
| 28 | Now you 're dismissing your own work as inadequate ? ’ |
| 29 | While we 're promoting my own show and blowing my own trumpet , er this afternoon Jenny is on for my for me this afternoon . |
| 30 | where do you live , I say oh you 're buying your own house ? |