Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked my own doctor when he came early this morning , but he would n't tell me . ’ |
| 2 | I asked my own surgeon how many of these prostate operations he did in a year , and he said around four hundred . |
| 3 | But when I criticise a tremolo system for being awkward to change strings on , or a truss rod for being inaccessible , it 's because I change my own strings and adjust my own truss rod . |
| 4 | I made my own way out of the station . |
| 5 | She went into the bathroom and I made my own supper by slicing some of the foul cheese and shoving it between two slices of greased plastic bread . |
| 6 | I made my own mind up . |
| 7 | If you say something to me I check that I have understood your message by saying it back to you in my own words , for if I repeat your own words exactly you will doubt whether I have really understood you . |
| 8 | As a small boy , I devised my own set of cartoon animals , and they now stood me in good stead . |
| 9 | I mean my own class . |
| 10 | Yes I think er I mean my own view is that he well er erm lead the party at the next election and he 'll win it . |
| 11 | I mean your own aim is really to make yourself superfluous in the end . |
| 12 | Taking this as my cue , I produced my own drawing pad and began to draw google-eyed rabbits and donkeys , with great speed . |
| 13 | I passed me own brother by in the process . |
| 14 | I make my own friends . ’ |
| 15 | But I am myself an agent ; there remains the question of how I make my own decisions . |
| 16 | Oh he says I make my own prawn cocktail he says at home and lettuce and |
| 17 | and I perhaps then wax my legs or erm , but not to the extreme of having some one else involved in my improvements , I make my own improvements in my body |
| 18 | In one of my-newspaper clippings , he was quoted as having said , ‘ I make my own luck . ’ |
| 19 | I make my own purse nets but some of good quality can be bought from all well-stocked gunshops . |
| 20 | The white tube , the cork-effect filter , the solid hot flare of the match and my lips tell me of my lungs as I make my own smoke , with its blue drifting and acrid smell . |
| 21 | I got my own home and it ai n't got a broken window . |
| 22 | When we made love that day in your room , and I experienced my own frailty , it shook me . |
| 23 | The girls I knew at COHQ thought he was particularly unattractive , but I expect his own girls applied different criteria . |
| 24 | I expect my own daughter will be like this in a year or two . |
| 25 | Yet I found my own conviction that the attempt would result in my death steadfast and stubborn . |
| 26 | I found my own way down . |
| 27 | I found my own apprehension of form and my sense of humour very much the same as masons of around four hundred years before . |
| 28 | I found my own level . |
| 29 | I provided my own float , I had nothing to do with any of the money . |
| 30 | I changed my own selection to that called out by a priest ahead of me . |