Example sentences of "see [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has been a bit painful , but I thought it would probably go away if I ignored it , so I did n't bother seeing my own doctor before we sailed . ’ |
| 2 | Ripping out the belay , I thrashed my way up , hardly able to see my own feet , but vaguely registering Roger 's impressively determined lead . |
| 3 | But I 'd like to see my own kind better off than they are . ’ |
| 4 | Dana did not ask to see my own poems , which at once made me suspect that he had some knowledge of them already . |
| 5 | For Israel 's way to be hidden Yahweh could mean that God can not see Israel 's way , or will not see Israel 's way , or has caused Israel not to be able to see its own way . |
| 6 | This may take the form of a genealogy which enables the present generation to see its own experience prefigured in the struggles of its ancestors , or to trace an unbroken line of descent to certain common codes and practices which define its ‘ roots ’ . |
| 7 | She found she was thinking small , on the scale of the ark , seeing her own hands huge as those of Gulliver in Lilliput . |
| 8 | Now there was an association of ideas — seeing her own situation in terms of Shakespeare 's Prince of Denmark ! |
| 9 | She was back at Madame Tussaud 's to see her own likeness unveiled in the world 's most celebrated Hall of Fame . |
| 10 | This was not Phoebe 's place and she knew quite simply that tomorrow morning she would go to see her own GP and organize the necessary hospital visit . |
| 11 | One was to see her own column — for so J.D. called it — in print , another was to know whether or not Dr Neil had read it , and still another was to know what he thought of it — and none of these desires seemed likely to be satisfied . |
| 12 | But all her frantic thoughts were cut short as she opened the door , to see her own children sitting , staring in amazement at the red-faced boy in the middle of the floor with his hands raised to strike one of them . |
| 13 | It was even too dark for her to be able to see her own car . |
| 14 | He had taken her up to see her own mother , and Nessie , to his surprise , humoured her in her chatter about Celia and Dermot . |
| 15 | Many of them supported the move to recruit the law into their plans for moral reform , but they did not wish to see their own efforts displaced by police powers . |
| 16 | They are being urged to see their own doctors if they develop symptoms such as a persistent cough , sweating or weight loss . |
| 17 | They want to see their own chaps , keen as mustard , potting Jerries ( or Tommies ) whenever the opportunity arises . |
| 18 | Hieronym Dudowski , that rare creature , a Kaszubian poet , doubtless caused much scratching of heads when he coined his slogan ‘ No Kaszubia without Poland — No Poland without Kaszubia ’ , but slowly the Kaszubians did come to see their own survival as lying in the resurrection of an independent Poland rather than in the straightjacket of Prussian-German citizenship . |
| 19 | This is usually a very popular event as parents want to see their own children involved in something special . |
| 20 | Parents turn up to see their own children doing something so attendance is bound to fall off if the major parts in the service are always taken by the same one or two children . |
| 21 | It 's also necessary to help people to see their own area from the visitor 's point of view , so they need an idea of the sort of customer they are likely to get and the things they will want to know . |
| 22 | Even if they were willing to see their own power reduced , radical reform is a jump into the unknown . |
| 23 | In time , through an appropriate Family Fellowship ( for each primary addictive disease there is an Anonymous Fellowship and also a corresponding Family Fellowship , for example AL Anon corresponds to Alcoholics Anonymous ) the sufferers from the family disease learn to see their own disease and recovery mirrored in the other members of that Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 24 | The Poll Tax Register will be held on a computer and each person will only be able to see their own entry . |
| 25 | Seeing their own information does not entitle a client to invade someone else 's privacy . |
| 26 | Seeing their own children in their teens may bring their own adolescence forcibly to mind , along with its unfinished business . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've seen my own country laid waste and no one seeming to care . |
| 28 | ‘ Mind you , ’ he added , ‘ I 've seen my own stuff flogged off in the market here . |
| 29 | She had not seen her own reflection since . |
| 30 | She was seized with panic , remembering that she had not seen her own face for so long . |