Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] our own [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I want our own country , I said .
2 I reckon our own world champs Field Marshal Montgomery would have done a much better job .
3 Cumulatively the features we have examined represent the world of a child surrounded and overawed by dimly grasped presences , a world in which the meanings which shape our own response to life are dissolved and reconstituted .
4 Of course , we had many political differences but the twin oppressions of being Irish lesbians and immigrants brought us together and gave us a strong framework upon which to build our own movement and within which to begin articulating our anger at English feminism .
5 Those of us who make our own way there have little conception of the anxiety this may induce , unless , perhaps , we have waited for bedpans in hospital .
6 Then she examines our own crinkle and discovers it 's almost identical .
7 ‘ Have you tried our own Château La Tour Monchauzet ?
8 We give birth surrounded by people who reflect our own fear that we will lose control and that our animal self will burst forth noisily and messily .
9 In summary , if we keep the horse 's anxiety down ( as well as our own ) things will be better next time ; and if we let the horse blow its mind with anxiety , or we lose our own temper , no one will even want to try again , and definitely not the horse !
10 But if we change our own scarcity belief , so that money flows more freely into our own lives , we have reduced — by one — the number of people in the world who struggle over money ; and we might choose to use some of our wealth to help others — not out of guilt , but out of love .
11 I wrote and said that a lot of members our pension , we could n't afford it , and that we owned our own hall so therefore we had a lot of cost to keep it in good repair and why was it nine pound .
12 We bring our own experience to bear on what is being read by filling gaps , by interpretation , and by extrapolating from what is given in the text ’ ( Crowder , 1982 , p.137 ) .
13 Like most families in those days , we made our own entertainment .
14 We made our own entertainment .
15 And we made our own entertainment that is the thing about it , you know ?
16 One of the girls nicked some yeast from the kitchens and so we made our own homebrew — potent or what .
17 We made our own way there ( somehow Tod knows this town backwards ) , and we did n't stay long , thank God .
18 And then the scientists stated that we were alone in the universe , that we made our own destiny .
19 Seven or eight years ago we , we , we 're on piecework , we made our own wage .
20 Emmerdale Farm , Crown Court and General Hospital arrived some time in the middle of the afternoon — in those days , we made our own crap daytime drama .
21 But it comes down to , first of all , whether it 's sensible to borrow against assets , and all of us do if we 're lucky enough to own our own homes we tend to have borrowed either our first mortgage or sometimes a second against it , and we make our own judgement , and I see there are some suggestions on how the Government spotted this with regard to schools in suggesting that perhaps schools could raise money by mortgaging their school buildings , of course
22 As Marx remarked , even when we make our own history , we do not make it in conditions of our own choosing and much of it is made behind our backs .
23 ‘ Most of the time , we make our own luck .
24 As we journey we make our own story which , like the story of God 's people , includes creation , pilgrimage , wilderness , covenant , deliverance , passion , death and resurrection .
25 I mean , I believe in some force , but we make our own destiny
26 Mind you we got our own video when she was about that no she was younger than that .
27 And the , as we got our own side they can , they can win perhaps they just around
28 But as individuals we develop our own language as we go along .
29 Before implementing such change in our practice , we reviewed our own experience and assessed the likely impact of that change and I 'll present that experience today .
30 So then I got back on to Gwyllam and said that if we provided our own caravan , would you someone there be willing to do the from site to site and he said that would n't be a problem .
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