Example sentences of "be in [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 2 | ‘ If you remember I 'm not particularly fond of them , ’ he murmured , ‘ especially when they 're in my own home ; I prefer to keep well away . ’ |
| 3 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 4 | It needs to be granted , certainly , that in speaking of a thing 's properties one is not always speaking of individual properties , and that the proponents of more traditional solutions to the problem of universals , unsuccessful though they have been in their own proposals , have made trouble for the solution in terms of individual properties . |
| 5 | Howard is relieved and pleased that his younger self could pass such a test ; to have been in his own company for fifteen minutes or more , and to have been so opaque and convincing that he 'd seemed to be like anyone else . |
| 6 | My dear ladies these children are in their own country ! |
| 7 | The principles of care mean that the resident should , as far possible , feel they are in their own home . |
| 8 | But if this is so , it is very mysterious that we have no vocabulary to describe the sensations as they are in their own nature , apart from the conditions in which they are normally produced . |
| 9 | In a paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy I defended the view he rejected by saying that the ‘ nature ’ of the ‘ sensations as they are in their own nature ’ is the nature we apprehend them as having when a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally , and that the reason why a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally need not be a reason of which we are conscious . |
| 10 | Before , they used to count their breaks in the twelve hours , now their breaks are in their own time . |
| 11 | It could be argued that since children from about the age of eight years can create their own mental images and since , according to Shirley Hughes ( 1983 , unpaged ) ‘ The best pictures any child sees are in its own head ’ , there is little need for pictures in books for older children . |
| 12 | Your destiny no longer depends on minister , viceroys or governors ; they are in your own hands . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm in my own world , drifting about , communicating with the baby , looking forward to it , not really thinking … |
| 14 | For her , Christmas is a time when the children are at the sparkling forefront of it all — the way it used to be in her own childhood , as Diana Spencer , at Althorp House in Northamptonshire . |
| 15 | However deeply involved she might be in her own conversation she rarely missed anything that was said by those around her . |
| 16 | ‘ She 's a regular babe in the wood in the East End , however knowledgeable she might be in her own world — wherever that is . ’ |
| 17 | How safe would she be in her own flat , if some crazed person was determined to hunt her down ? |
| 18 | However jewel-like the good will may be in its own right , there is a morally significant difference between rescuing someone from a burning building and dropping him from a twelfth storey window while trying to rescue him . |
| 19 | But at some point we are bound to stop and ask if what we are studying , however important it may be in its own terms , is sufficiently central to its presumed subject . |
| 20 | So although the gamma ray background tells us that there can be no more than 300 primordial black holes per cubic light-year on average , it tells us nothing about how common they might be in our own galaxy . |
| 21 | At less than half that age , Mary declared , in her act , ‘ the full administration and ruling to be in our own hands ’ . |
| 22 | If it is to be in your own class hall , you have no problem . |
| 23 | Indeed , given that these cowboys are under-cutting decent employers it would be in your own interest to tackle this problem ’ . |
| 24 | I 'm sure it would be better for you to be in your own room in your own home again with your Mum and Dad who love you to look after you , than amongst strangers . |
| 25 | When she went back he was asleep or pretending to be in his own bed . |
| 26 | … But there were times , when they were alone in the house together — and even though the Rabbi might be in his own room teasing out a bissle Talmud — his attention would suddenly stray from the holy words and he would become uncomfortably aware of some dybbuk , some spirit of unhappiness , brooding in the kitchen . |
| 27 | In fact I considered if I was going to die it might as well be in my own quarters . |
| 28 | Second , related to the first and to the awareness of being in their own skin , they learn that it is proper and effective to signal for what they need . |
| 29 | Even in the long-ago undercover work on the weekly magazine , she had always worked with the comforting feeling of being in her own country , with the big battalions immediately behind her . |
| 30 | And we 'd got two hundred and then the dyers they were in their own union er at er at that time they 'd perhaps got er er thirty in the dye-house . |