Example sentences of "[pron] own but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I started , I was very much on my own but over the years it has really caught on in Whaddon and now membership has trebled . |
| 2 | The fact , though , that I discovered it not in any yellowing vanity book of my own but among the vast volumes of newspaper clippings maintained by Dick Crossman was marginally encouraging . |
| 3 | Ignorant , politically immature , with no grasp of the real issues at stake , they are guided not by rational goals of their own but by the vagaries of rumour , the skill of rival political leaders , rabble-rousing , propaganda and demagogy . |
| 4 | Certainly the new paradigm will have problems of its own but at the moment at least , its dominant characteristics seem to be those of caring , individuation , personal responsibility , individual freedom , self-exploration and personal fulfilment . |
| 5 | It will not normally be used on its own but as a facing or interlayer in composite materials . |
| 6 | Nails was always roaming about on his own but on a night like this there was not much attraction in it . |