Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drum samples should be alright , though , and the sample patch I tried had its own reverb , which could be very useful for snares and toms . |
| 2 | I tried declaring my own sense of dissatisfaction to a few friends and found I 'd caught a tiger by the tail . |
| 3 | I stopped writing my own poems . |
| 4 | Always keen to do things economically if I could , I 'd made my own jesses . |
| 5 | If I 'd followed my own path , I 'd probably have done something like that [ arts ] . |
| 6 | The bank suddenly started asking for guarantees from my husband , even though I 'd held my own account for two years . |
| 7 | I 'd got my own way about the home birth after all ! ’ |
| 8 | Er and I , I think I , I should have said if er la you know after I 'd had my own , enjoy your babies while they 're young because they grow up so quickly , whereas before it was a case of , do n't pick them up when they , you know , if they cry leav let them cry . |
| 9 | ‘ What might I not have done if I 'd had my own clubs for the first two rounds ? ’ |
| 10 | She boldly insisted , ‘ I have never let anyone I interviewed check my own copy before publication . ’ |
| 11 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 12 | Then I began modifying my own equipment because it just never sounded right to me ; it did n't seem to have enough of anything I wanted . |
| 13 | It may not be very original , but I decided to call my own Barny . |
| 14 | Mick informed me that the Brigade Major had gone to pay No. 4 Commando a visit , so I decided to make my own way there and keep out of the Brigade Major 's path as much as possible . |
| 15 | ‘ I think I needed to feel my own pain again . ’ |
| 16 | It was n't until Suede that I started to forge my own identity . |
| 17 | But I realized I was different from the Brazilians , and that was when I started to rediscover my own identity . ’ |
| 18 | I get more excited seeing my girls winning medals than I felt winning my own . ’ |
| 19 | I meant to bring my own , but I forgot , and somebody 's used the wrong kind of pen on here , so you ca n't rub that off . |
| 20 | I kept saying my own name so I would n't forget it . |
| 21 | Well I would I , I mean I kept to keep my own |
| 22 | I smiled to hide my own unease . |
| 23 | I smiled to hide my own fears . |
| 24 | In time I learned to get my own back , |
| 25 | But I did select my own peg words and you will have to do this too . |
| 26 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 27 | But I had to do my own asking round before I found a place to visit . |
| 28 | I 'd started my album ‘ Were n't Born A Man ’ and Mick Ronson was the arranger and producer for a couple of tracks , and David produced a couple of tracks too , but during the making of the album , David became even bigger and bigger in America and the move to America was absolutely imminent so I had to finish my own album without the help of him because he was n't around — which I did . |
| 29 | But I had to live my own life . |
| 30 | There was , of course , no plug for the shower or wash-hand basin , but I had brought my own . |