Example sentences of "in [pron] own [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Always wrapped up in my own concerns . |
| 5 | Just as much in my own comrades , in Montague , as in the invisible Germans . |
| 6 | At the back , sometimes out of sight of the others , I became engrossed in my own problems . |
| 7 | I was too rapt in my own problems to remember anyone else 's . |
| 8 | She had a huge holdall with her — I should have been suspicious , but I was n't , I was too wrapped up in my own problems . |
| 9 | In my own turfs we are quarrelling among ourselves with intense energy about whether women can be ordained priests , about who is more Catholic than their neighbour and about a whole host of internal issues , because we apparently have neither the grace nor the guts to face up to the real issues which are the business of the Church in the current world . |
| 10 | In my own investigations of many of these texts , I have noted additional examples . |
| 11 | From my thirteen-year-old daughter 's account it is still as uncritical as it was in my own schooldays . |
| 12 | I sha n't suffer much , they tell me , and I 'll be here in my own surroundings . |
| 13 | The next day , Christmas Day , I could not do anything , just sat around a lot of the time , lost in my own thoughts . |
| 14 | On the subject of personal hygiene and ‘ standards ’ in general , I had noticed that I was beginning to swear rather too much in my own thoughts . |
| 15 | ‘ And I became worthless in my own eyes . |
| 16 | He became ‘ more loathsome in my own eyes than a toad … . |
| 17 | I need to grow and change and develop as a person in my own terms . |
| 18 | Be that as it may , I shall attempt to explain the spiritual aspect in my own terms . |
| 19 | Like , I 'd been to church , been to Sunday School , so I knew all the stuff in the Bible , but I guess I needed to envisage it … see it , in my own terms . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes ’ Cregagh Bonsai owner Stephen Whiteside surrounds himself with the love of his life . |
| 22 | In my own teaching , in my own responsibilities , I think I have to make two gestures simultaneously : to train people , to teach them , to give them a content , to be a good pedagogue , to train teachers , to give them a profession ; and at the same time to make them as conscious as possible of the problems of professionalization . |
| 23 | ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help . |
| 24 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 25 | How much can I explain in my own words ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But in deference to Mr. Howell 's arguments I will shortly indicate my views in my own words . |
| 28 | While it would be easy to criticise the choice of material , the examples used and the emphasis , Serratosa 's book does contain some new innovations for teaching the difficult subject of the design of synthesis , and I will certainly use some of these features in my own classrooms . |
| 29 | ‘ To man I can be answerable , and as for God , I 'll take him in my own hands ’ , said the brazen Clavers , and with that he turned his horse and led his men away , knowing that he had been deflated by a poor woman of noble demeanour . |
| 30 | ‘ Because my family were lawyers and self-employed , I 've always had the feeling that I would rather hold my future in my own hands than have it in somebody else 's . |