Example sentences of "me [verb] [prep] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , because having shown me what he termed ‘ retroscendence ’ , The Fat Controller was content to let me stew in my own juice for a while . |
| 2 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 3 | you see with me living on my own for such a long time now , erm it seems er it seemed to get in the way , you had the television and |
| 4 | ‘ She uses me according to her own sweet nature , and could do no other for her life . |
| 5 | This had several squares of very heavy , dark grey woollen cloth which Mum told me came from her own great grandmother 's cloak , so presumably could well have dated back to the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | Kindly do n't presume to issue me orders in my own house . ’ |
| 7 | This prompted me to look through my own collection , where I discovered a copy dated August 1931 , priced 2/ |
| 8 | Everything and everyone is drained of value except as means to my own dwindling and at last exclusively pre-human ends , and I myself am equally a means in the eyes of everyone else , as I am forced to recognize whenever an automaton interacting with me reaches for its own pocket computer . |
| 9 | But nevertheless this week 's startling news that Nicholas MacMahon , the four-year-old Mozart-loving computer genius , could talk and read before he was a year old set me wondering about my own wild-eyed nine-month-old infant . |
| 10 | Let me return to my own experiences to illustrate the relationship between pure and graduated separatism . |
| 11 | There was often just too much for me to finish on my own . |
| 12 | you would n't let me go on me own |
| 13 | I 'm going ah own way home I thought God I hope mummy 's making me , letting me go on my own way home . |
| 14 | Let me go on my own |
| 15 | Sooner or later there 'll be a chance ( if he does n't let me go of his own accord ) to run for it . |
| 16 | I was sorry that he went to the West Riding after only two terms , although this made me stand on my own feet quickly , which was of itself of value . |
| 17 | So you 've got ta go away , think like burglars , and think how easy is it , would it be for me to break into my own home ? |
| 18 | If he walks off and leaves me someone might see me left on my own ’ . ’ |
| 19 | I studied for one year at the Academy in Vienna and this year finds me working on my own in my own studio and I am being analysed by Dr Wilhelm Stekel . |
| 20 | ‘ The kids used to watch me working with my own tractor so I decided to make then their own version , ’ says Klaus . |