Example sentences of "[pron] own [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not begrudge Wilson this , since I had no wish for my own part to be revealed , but for some reason best known to himself he decided that he would at least claim the credit for having found me . |
| 2 | At first I would go for short walks , lasting perhaps half an hour , and then return to bed sufficiently impressed with my own daring to be able to relax into sleep . |
| 3 | The latter symptom , common among individualists , manifests itself as a refusal to acknowledge the problem : while seeking to defend complex theoretical claims , individualists frequently take the intuitive truth of their own doctrine to be so overwhelmingly obvious that its opponents scarcely need to be taken seriously . |
| 4 | In his classic book The Prophets , Abraham Heschel has shown that Amos , Hosea , Jeremiah and Isaiah all considered their own input to be a crucial part of their message . |
| 5 | Men surrounded them , asking questions , full of their own tale to be told . |
| 6 | Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be . |
| 7 | /He hath honoured me of late ( 31f. ) — she is able to sweep his scruples aside by mocking his cowardice and by showing her own readiness to be the accomplice in this ‘ terrible feat ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ A mother ’ , says Elias Canetti , ‘ is one who gives her own body to be eaten . |
| 9 | Then , perhaps with some thought of her own Christmas to be spent partly with the Queen at Sandringham she added : ‘ The lonely , the confused and the simply unloved , who need your help more than ever . ’ |
| 10 | Alternatively , the RFL may apply for his or her own entry to be cancelled . |
| 11 | Then she realized it was her own desire to be valued , noticed even , that made her want to do something that would n't take a minute once she 'd started . |
| 12 | This can sometimes be done very successfully by helping her to channel her energy and abilities into some local club or voluntary service organisation where her talent for management can be put to good use , as well as meeting her own need to be a little bit of a ‘ bossy-boots ’ . |
| 13 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 14 | As soon as the first ring sounded he knew she was not there , that the sound of the telephone was reverberating through empty rooms , as lost and desolate as wind crying across a salt marsh , as hopeless as he felt his own heart to be . |
| 15 | Only the duke of Normandy presumed to make this explicit , allowing his own name to be introduced into the chant after the prayers for the French king , so that the congregation called on the great warrior saints to guarantee the duke 's safety and perpetual peace . |
| 16 | It was largely his own determination to be rid of the tag of illness that brought eventual healing . |
| 17 | There was very little of his own faith to be seen in the city , even if he had wished to become involved . |
| 18 | Had n't he his own bed to be going home to ? ’ |
| 19 | This is true especially of the story of his own call to be a disciple , which he has copied from Mark . |
| 20 | On the advice of Lyell and Hooker he arranged for an account of his own theory to be published alongside Wallace 's paper by the Linnean Society of London . |
| 21 | But the 29-year-old centre-half explained how he had been the victim of his own eagerness to be involved in the Kop cause , despite a virus problem . |
| 22 | DEFENCES Clive Greenacre , in his distrust , used his wife 's agoraphobia as a defence against his own need to be sure of her being safely where he left her . |
| 23 | He told the Professor then of his own ambition to be admitted to Oxford , of his financial difficulties , of the need to be near his mother . |
| 24 | The archers loosed blind in the darkness , but could do so only once without imperilling their friends , for after the shock of meeting it was stark hand to hand work without any daylight art about it , first a hacking and swinging ahead at any flesh that moved , then body to body fumbling where everyone panted out words in his own tongue to be safe from his comrades , and even swords were of little use . |
| 25 | At the same time , our own responsibility to be aware of our actions and how they affected the less developed countries should not be overlooked . |
| 26 | And naturally you expect a member of our own family to be trustworthy . |
| 27 | You 're too trapped in your own ego to be able to hear or to understand . ’ |
| 28 | Now if you take away er , another lump of money including carry forwards , you really do reduce your own ability to be able to pay to take advantage of the window of opportunity we now have to actually put European money into the county . |
| 29 | Checklist of questions for your own information to be answered before the interview |