Example sentences of "of [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never thought it would 'appen to one of me own children , the youngest too , what I was always most fond of . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Do any of them own horses like ours ? ’ |
| 3 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 4 | It no longer seems as obvious as it used to that I can detach myself from my interactions with other things , observe them objectively , and arrive at facts about them wholly independent of my own reactions and decisions . |
| 5 | There 's always the chance they 'll query the validity of my own licence — ’ He tapped the steel forearm and gloved hand resting on his lap . |
| 6 | Pat always reminded me of my own shape — a reasonably well proportioned figure but very heavy on the hips and thighs . |
| 7 | I am still very critical of my own shape but I console myself with the fact that while it is far from perfect , it is better than it used to be . |
| 8 | ’ On reading these lines I realised that , if the word ‘ starving ’ were to be substituted for the word ‘ dying ’ , they could be read as a description of my own attitude at the time I was anorexic . |
| 9 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 10 | On the occasions of my own visits I always manage to see something new when I visit Rutland Water : a preening water rail in full view below Lax Hill , four buoyant , saw-billed goosanders showing off their diving skills , short-eared owls roosting at dusk on the fence posts of the Hambleton Peninsula , a pair of displaying great crested grebes presenting mutual gifts of waterweed … |
| 11 | I was fond of her , she reminded me of my own kid back home . |
| 12 | ‘ I could not see one of my own kind suffer , ’ he said , ‘ or leave her to be attacked by crows ’ |
| 13 | She may be a back-stabbing , double-dealing , power-hungry twister , but she 's one of my own kind . |
| 14 | ( Just as , in the case of my own work , I did not anticipate that some teachers would begin every lesson with ‘ What do you want to do a play about ? ’ . |
| 15 | It was certainly never more than an individual analysis of my own work practices — a personal time-and-motion study . |
| 16 | The course of my own life was changed , similarly and irrevocably , by one of my teachers . |
| 17 | ’ At first I felt I could n't take care of my own life , ’ she says , remembering a rocky past with its broken marriage , drink and drugs . |
| 18 | They gave me what I needed most of all , which was an analysis of my own life , which before then I had n't had . |
| 19 | The stimulus for these changes has been a combination of my own experiences of doing mathematics and the discovery that my pupils could do mathematics in ways that I had not appreciated before . |
| 20 | As well as using evidence of my own experiences , and those of other arts teachers with whom I work , I shall support my argument and conclusions with evidence from a small-scale research project , in which I explored the ways arts departments in four fairly typical secondary schools approached the problems of assessing and examining children 's performance in art , music and drama . |
| 21 | At the time he reached his last book , Human Knowledge , he had abandoned the claim that you could show that the world could be logically constructed out of sense experiences , and adopted a much more Kantian outlook , in which , while he erm said that all our inferences about the world must begin from sense experiences , all that the philosopher can do , is to make explicit the premises that are required in order to infer from the transitory data of my own experiences to the enduring existence of material things and the much more sophisticated kinds of existence which their minute constituents have . |
| 22 | I decided to make for the orchard and the safety of my own trench . |
| 23 | The fact that there are parts of Britain which have clambered out of real poverty , and primitive housing , within the lifetime of my own generation they see as a hope and a challenge . |
| 24 | I had become a tenant of my own dream . |
| 25 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
| 26 | In order to give a sense of an ‘ ethical a priori ’ position , I will at this point in the book say something of my own odyssey . |
| 27 | What bothers me is not so much the loss of either Peter Datchett or the yellow dress , but the awful glimpse of my own acquiescence . ’ |
| 28 | If I was not similarly open , it is merely because my embarrassments can only be laid at the door of my own folly , and not to the workings of chance . ’ |
| 29 | There was quite a social calendar to keep me occupied if I ever tired of my own company . |
| 30 | Erm and one of the things I could 've done was to em er become a salaried employee of my own company which was a limited company but I paid myself as a consultant . |