Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I mean my own class . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I mean your own aim is really to make yourself superfluous in the end . |
| 6 | I make my own friends . ’ |
| 7 | But I am myself an agent ; there remains the question of how I make my own decisions . |
| 8 | Oh he says I make my own prawn cocktail he says at home and lettuce and |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | In one of my-newspaper clippings , he was quoted as having said , ‘ I make my own luck . ’ |
| 11 | I make my own purse nets but some of good quality can be bought from all well-stocked gunshops . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The girls I knew at COHQ thought he was particularly unattractive , but I expect his own girls applied different criteria . |
| 14 | I expect my own daughter will be like this in a year or two . |
| 15 | Eleven o'clock , there were n't restrictions then on , they could keep open as long as they liked , no restrictions on , on time , and er as I say their own place you know it really it was picturesque , I thought in since erm I contacted you I 've been thinking how , what I could help with and er what I could still think about , and er it was really a sight because to walk and it always used to be crowded , well it was one of the best markets round here and er people used to go off and from Bloxwich and er although there 's a good market at Walsall there was n't a Bloxwich market then sadly for years and years , but erm and then if you went to Wolverhampton you got to walk through Windsfield you got to er walk everywhere you went then and except on a Saturday night when the wagonettes used to run on a Saturday but it was amazing to see the girl behind the range now controlling |
| 16 | Reading for our , I mean er , I supply my own car , my church has recognised that whether I 'm probably if I pay the tax and the insurance erm and I just thirty two , thirty five that 's but when I 'm in business or I 'm in provinces and I 'm allowed to pay what , ten fifteen |
| 17 | Because what I really want , after all , is to give them a true belief , and I know very well that , although I want my own beliefs to be true ( because that 's what makes them useful ) , we can all make mistakes . |
| 18 | ‘ I want my own chair . ’ |
| 19 | I want our own country , I said . |
| 20 | Probyn himself says : ‘ I hold my own beliefs about front-row play and one of those is that there is no substitute for experience . |
| 21 | So , much against my better judgement , I put my own shopping bag on top of his mother 's trolley and picked him up . |
| 22 | ‘ I walk my own path . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd called it that all my life so why should they try to force me to change the way I speak my own language ? |
| 24 | When I finally accepted that I create my own reality , I was excited but scared . |
| 25 | Then I reminded myself that I create my own reality ! |
| 26 | And Blake admitted : ‘ Obviously I would love to play , but I run my own business and Friday is the busiest day of the week . |
| 27 | And Blake admitted : ‘ Obviously I would love to play , but I run my own business and Friday is the busiest day of the week . |
| 28 | I run my own business . |
| 29 | This was such a success that now , as she writes : ‘ I run my own design business mainly designing kitchens in appropriate styles for period properties , my most challenging having been a ‘ Gothic ’ kitchen … |
| 30 | But I mean , a lot of people do n't glorify on the jobs they do , I mean Dinda she said you know , it 's awful being the one who 's getting all the all day long , kind of explained and help them with their problems , sympathise with , with something that does n't work she 'd much rather be outdoors than being a or looking after , but she said you know , it 's , it 's a secure job and these days I think well I 'm not I run my own car and they do n't really think that |