Example sentences of "you [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is a bloody business here , not a bloody knocking shop where you pick your own hours … ’ |
| 2 | You drafted your own advertisement — manifesto almost — for the set . |
| 3 | As Mr Howe said : ‘ People say you make your own luck but you can not legislate for something like that . ’ |
| 4 | But there 's one thing I 'll hold to , I 'll have my own bed tomorrow night and you make your own arrangements for next door . |
| 5 | It is far better that you make your own tapes and choose your own images . |
| 6 | In effect they will be assessing you in much the same way that you make your own self-assessment and then trying to match you to jobs in the way that you should do when applying for jobs directly . |
| 7 | From me you take the love of home to put it in whatever place you make your own . |
| 8 | She claims she has been ‘ very lucky ’ , though concedes that ‘ to a certain extent you make your own luck ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been lucky when it has come to the crunch but in life you make your own luck . |
| 10 | You make your own mind up pet nobody does it for you . |
| 11 | well you make your own , I know you do , but they were nice |
| 12 | But enough to allow you to go your own way . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , there 's the lav and the 'andbasin that 's on the landin' , ’ said Mrs Beavis , ‘ but you got your own gas ring in the corner there . |
| 14 | You got your own wages out of that and he kept the rest . |
| 15 | So you got your own Connie . |
| 16 | So well actually I 've been robbed you got your own villas . |
| 17 | Burton 's amours were widely touted ‘ with this guy you bring your own mattress ’ , a well-used crack but at Burton , well aimed . |
| 18 | Ian Hodgson finds quick ways to help you build your own . |
| 19 | This forces you to scrutinize your own behaviour rather than blame other people . |
| 20 | So you made , you made your own patterns |
| 21 | Well when I worked at , when I started off in the I quite liked my job in there , you made your own pay , and I liked , it was a starching job , I 'd quite a good job in there . |
| 22 | Cos you made your own fun that 's why ! |
| 23 | Can you make your own way to Heathrow ? |
| 24 | ‘ You may know somebody who can make a dress for you , or help you make your own , ’ said Fenella Willis . |
| 25 | You know we were asked , Do you want your own bank account really and we decided er democratically that we 'd have the one bank account really for make sure the D H S S did n't start snooping really and you know er that 's worked very well I mean certainly the men very much tell us everything that 's going on and erm well you know I do n't think there 's any conflict of erm I do n't know you know it 's it 's difficult I suppose it 's amazing really the way it does work you know and that er you know but it 's quite loose really because it 's er that 's in a way the way one of it 's successes probably you know that 's it 's not a very structured I mean probably the lodge is more structured I mean men are used to their lodge meetings are n't they you know ? |
| 26 | Do n't you think our own townsmen can put on a Corpus Christi play ? |
| 27 | ‘ I was about to tell you , ’ retorted Isabel , ‘ before you applied your own method of healing . |
| 28 | You admitted your own guilt , did n't you ? ’ |
| 29 | Some agencies like you to wear their own distinctive uniforms . |
| 30 | So you want your own thing . |