Example sentences of "make my own [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps now I could make my own bread !
2 I 'll make my own friends if I want to .
3 Just for once , let me make my own decision .
4 I can make my own choices . ’
5 I 'll make my own way back . ’
6 ‘ I 'll make my own way from there . ’
7 I can make my own way to my digs , ’ she said with great dignity .
8 Said he 'd bailed me out once and he would n't do so again , I could make my own way .
9 You only need to drop me in town , and I can make my own way from there ! ’
10 I 'll come over later — I 'll make my own way . ’
11 ‘ I intend to stay in control — and I will make my own decisions all the way . ’
12 I wish to be wholly responsible for my acts , to be master of my fate ; I shall make my own choice of ends , distance myself from my own reactions and learn to manipulate them like external events .
13 Look , I 've no money for a hotel so I 'd better make my own arrangements for tonight .
14 They assumed I 'd go to Chislehurst with them , but I said I 'd turn up later on my bike ; I 'd make my own arrangements .
15 Answer some questions … or else I 'll make my own arrangements . ’
16 ‘ I 'll make my own arrangements .
17 Do you think , if I buy a little spade , I can make my own garden ? ’
18 I made my own way out of the station .
19 Minnie had written to her , a short and agonising note , penned with obvious difficulty , and she had replied at length , describing her — horror , Minnie , to hear of these floodings and most of all of the terrible pain which made my own insides contract in sympathy .
20 She went into the bathroom and I made my own supper by slicing some of the foul cheese and shoving it between two slices of greased plastic bread .
21 I made my own mind up .
22 I had in fact made my own labels using some vulgarly bright pink fluorescent cardboard I had found lying about .
23 It was a whole new experience , and at first it made my own feeling of being a fraud even more acute .
24 I went to them all and watched and listened and made my own judgements .
25 I usually make my own curtains but a few years ago I decided to make use of a free making-up service offered by a large department store .
26 Oh he says I make my own prawn cocktail he says at home and lettuce and
27 I mean , I did in fact make my own breakfast .
28 In one of my-newspaper clippings , he was quoted as having said , ‘ I make my own luck . ’
29 I make my own friends . ’
30 But I am myself an agent ; there remains the question of how I make my own decisions .
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