Example sentences of "for [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you see , they , they want a social , they want a night out er but they 're very , very loyal to the Co-op , er particularly my o I can only speak for my own Guild . |
| 2 | I pay for my own ribbons and object to this rape of my printer . |
| 3 | Up until then I had found that when difficulties came or doubts arose in my Christian life , I could always escape their force by not holding myself answerable for my own faith . |
| 4 | Not , ’ he added swiftly at her frown , ‘ that I 'm anxious for my own company , I assure you . ’ |
| 5 | The rumour , therefore , was given time to breed and , for my own honour 's sake and for hers , I could do nothing , nothing , but endure it … ’ |
| 6 | Michael Aldrich does not make this mistake in Videotex , Key to the Wired City This is a glossy paperback , with popular appeal , which could well form the basis of a case study for my own man/computer systems class next year . |
| 7 | For my own standpoint : I am not a historian . |
| 8 | Then I was able to er go for my own self , you know and er I went on doing locks , one thing and another , best I could and all that sort of thing and I worked for a , a bloke what was in there er be a little bloke but he was the best locksmith in the shop and I went to help him and er he used to give me all the to do and this and that and the other . |
| 9 | The heading for my own contribution , ‘ Can we complain ? ’ , seemed to strike a note of resignation , not inappropriately I suppose : after all we in schools are paid to get on with it regardless . |
| 10 | ‘ I wanted a legitimate way to increase my profile , ’ Shelley says , ‘ but I do n't like doing things just for my own benefit , so I was very comfortable with this idea because it was intended to benefit all its members . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ That 's why I 'm on the run , not for my own benefit . |
| 12 | ‘ Incidentally , if I deliberately breached a power of attorney and exploited it for my own benefit — although I ca n't think how that would be possible — I would be struck off the Roll of Solicitors by the Law Society . ’ |
| 13 | Apart from the ( very ) occasional disagreement with the teachers I think that I quite like school as I am here for my own benefit . |
| 14 | I 'll put a I 'll put a circle round the no and there that 's for my own benefit . |
| 15 | Okay well I 'll asterisk that for my own benefit as well the four weeks bit . |
| 16 | Since I since I left school and I was able to afford my own clothes and I knew that erm a responsibility for my own clothing was on my my own shoulders , it has never bothered me since , for myself . |
| 17 | Though I am reluctant to lay down rules , I do find the following guidelines , set out in the Fowlers ' The King ‘ s English , helpful as a sort of mental checklist for my own work : |
| 18 | As for my own work ! |
| 19 | For my own part , having a little woodland garden , this is one of the two plants which I am forever poking in where I can find a place for another . |
| 20 | For my own part , I am eternally paying him compliments of this kind , and do all that lies in my power to keep his imagination as busy as my own . |
| 21 | For my own part , I enjoyed reading the old Punch and writing for the new one . |
| 22 | For my own part , I did not feel prepared to jeopardise my children 's education while in pursuit of that cause . |
| 23 | For my own part , I should not , judging by his face , have guessed him to be a poet . |
| 24 | Whether she ever told what she 'd found I never discovered , but for my own part I only wanted to forget the whole frightening incident . |
| 25 | Erm for my own part , I do n't know . |
| 26 | I did not begrudge Wilson this , since I had no wish for my own part to be revealed , but for some reason best known to himself he decided that he would at least claim the credit for having found me . |
| 27 | And although for my own part it would be my ruin , yet so great is my veneration for you , so entire my reliance on providence upon so just an occasion that I should think myself but too happy if I might be accepted . |
| 28 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 29 | Well for my own part I think that one can educate students as far as possible in terms of what appropriate behaviour is , and I think that you can police students with disciplinary measures when it 's absolutely clear that when they know what the inappropriate behaviour is they nevertheless make a choice that they 're going to move beyond those boundaries of appropriateness . |
| 30 | It 's for my own peace of mind . ’ |