Example sentences of "of [pron] own accord " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not stand it any longer , if someone does not come to me I will give up and be miserable for ever and perhaps go home of my own accord , write or wire to Uncle C. and say you are coming at once pleas darling , and come on Saturday or I will give up altogether and always wretched . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't leave the convent of my own accord . |
| 3 | There is a contemplative silence when divinatory sticks move seemingly of their own accord . |
| 4 | Of these 21 left of their own accord for reasons ranging from incompatibility to pregnancy . |
| 5 | Instead of an Anschluss , however , Bismarck preferred to woo the other states to join a federation of their own accord . |
| 6 | Most committees ignore touchy problems until they go away of their own accord . |
| 7 | Mistakes do not disappear of their own accord , and the text on the screen will be saved and printed exactly as it appears . |
| 8 | Now , it seems , the counties have been asked to approve a formula which will endanger their ability to stand upright of their own accord . |
| 9 | He simply hopes they will emerge of their own accord , and this may not happen for a considerable time . |
| 10 | The rabbits find that most objectionable and are often very pleased to leave of their own accord . |
| 11 | The rabbits mostly came in of their own accord . |
| 12 | It 's taken me about a year to realize that the things I put down do n't actually disappear of their own accord . |
| 13 | Troopies did n't just sprout of their own accord . |
| 14 | Now that the ex-cadets were initiated Scouts , they could speak out of their own accord . |
| 15 | In fact , the elephants Wallace mentions never reached Borneo of their own accord . |
| 16 | A runaway is a young person , aged under 17 years or in local authority care , who has either left home ( or residential care ) of their own accord but without agreement or is forced to leave , and is missing for one or more nights . |
| 17 | Most colleagues of any stature were forced out of the party or left of their own accord — like Lalith Athulathmudali , once a UNP national-security minister , who tried to impeach Mr Premadasa . |
| 18 | IXI does n't think those users will need to be tempted by special offers promotions though , believing they 'll come flocking of their own accord . |
| 19 | Other inner-city inhabitants left for the suburbs of their own accord , trading a more pleasant environment for the often cramped , dirty , and increasing unsafe inner urban areas . |
| 20 | And there were the baskets of fruit , perfect small melons , late plums , under-ripe medlars waiting to soften , peaches , pears hollowed out by a bird or a wasp , figs that had fallen of their own accord , all the fruits of September naturally ripe and sometimes still warm from the sun . |
| 21 | Dealers who were n't going to make it left , often of their own accord , before getting sacked . |
| 22 | It was alleged that at one licensed dealer directors traced dealers who had left them , whether of their own accord or not , via their bank accounts . |
| 23 | Simultaneously , three other dealers left of their own accord , disillusioned with the lack of fresh client coupons . |
| 24 | The Nottingham finding ( Lunzer and Gardner , 1979 ) is again relevant ; children who could explain how to use an index did not generally of their own accord actually use one very often . |
| 25 | It seems that the author has deliberately left things vague by choosing the intransitive verb construction : that she wants us to have the delicately ironic impression of a deferential , high-class shop in which doors , as it were , open and shut almost of their own accord . |
| 26 | In case anyone thinks this was unnecessarily drastic , I did in fact leave them for a couple of hours to see if they would come out of their own accord — but they did n't , and I was concerned that they might starve if left to their own devices . |
| 27 | Ace moved after him , ready to demand an explanation of where he was going and how he knew there was a cemetery , but before she reached the doors , they closed of their own accord , and the time rotor began its stately rise and fall . |
| 28 | Then of course not one would enter the gangway to go into the steamer , so they caught one and forced it through , then all the rest followed quite eagerly of their own accord . |
| 29 | They vanished from Ireland during my great-grandfather 's time , but on the night of Samain , the gateways between their world and ours open of their own accord , and they come back . |
| 30 | Once , when she was ill and I had to show the doctor in to see her , he was rather disconcerted to see the bedclothes on either side of Mrs Field appear to rise of their own accord — and four dogs emerged ! |