Example sentences of "in [pos pn] own [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | That 's not to say there was n't child abuse now , I I have my own thoughts and in my own feelings feel that there could have been some child abuse especially ch sexual abuse . |
2 | But I have deliberately left out in both those chapters the actual details of weight lost or gained , and have done the same in my own story at the beginning of the book . |
3 | Dying in my own story . |
4 | In my own studies of theatre audiences and of book reading habits in the United Kingdom I found , when I began , that there was very little published at all on who goes to the theatre and , while there was more information available on adult reading habits , much of it had its source in America and much of what was available in Britain referred to borrowing from libraries but excluded book buying . |
5 | Fear , real fear , is something I had only experienced once in my life , and that , strangely enough , was not on the round-the-world race , but in my own little boat , and in my own waters off Blakeney . |
6 | But this was too soon in my own development for me to be able to grasp the opportunity and eventually the shop closed down and Mr Farrer moved on . |
7 | He left also a timeless description of Fowey , where ‘ … the little boats that lie tethered to the rings and stancheons of the old sea wall are gaily painted as those I clambered in and out of in my own childhood … and by the windows the great vessels glide , night and day , up to their moorings or forth to the open sea . ’ |
8 | If those primitive attitudes had n't also been the determining factor in my own fate I would have found it as ludicrous and pitiful as I do now . |
9 | The experience Mr Chairman I have of these situations is that trees happen to fall down , and hedges happen to get pushed by bulldozers , and at the end of the day , because I 've seen it in my own village where I was born , I 'm afraid with all respect to what happens , what is actually passed by the planners does n't actually come to pass because there is always a reason why it ca n't . |
10 | I mean in my own village we have erm |
11 | There are virtually no traffic wardens , school patrols are entirely haphazard activities , and in many parts of the county rural policing has disappeared — it is non-existent in many parts , especially in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire , West and in my own constituency . |
12 | I have spent quite long enough outlining the picture in my own constituency and I have no doubt that the House will wish to consider the national picture as well . |
13 | He said : ‘ I am proud to be the Minister who changed the rules and delighted to be able to benefit schools in my own constituency . |
14 | ‘ People said I was too old in 1985 , but I had confidence in my own ability , ’ he said . |
15 | People said I was too old in 1985 , but I had confidence in my own ability . |
16 | ‘ I 've still got belief in myself and I still have confidence in my own ability . ’ |
17 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
18 | ‘ I was always pretty confident and never lacked belief in my own ability , ’ he said . |
19 | Despite my wealth of experience and my time as an instructor , I had become over confident in my own ability . |
20 | He was intensely serious about the place of art in life , and I can remember painting a picture in the main art room at Berkhamstead , one I was to sell years later in Manchester , and the way in which he valued this gave me a sense of value in my own achievement . |
21 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
22 | ‘ Always wrapped up in my own concerns . |
23 | I could only suppose that the collapse of space-time in my own day was slowly spreading outwards from source , like a bloodstain oozing across an old sheet , threatening many deep-seated continuities . |
24 | Possibly the time slips in my own day were already dying out . |
25 | Just as much in my own comrades , in Montague , as in the invisible Germans . |
26 | By that time I had copied her training set-up in my own lab , and we were able to repeat the entire experiment as before . |
27 | I answered her look with as much affection in my own expression as I could muster and added , ‘ But I want to hear , my lady , tawil omrich . |
28 | ‘ What I 'm saying , Vitali — what I 've been driving at in my own bluff way — is that I would very much appreciate , that 's to say , well … ’ |
29 | Not officially , and not in my own person , but I was here . ’ |
30 | At the back , sometimes out of sight of the others , I became engrossed in my own problems . |