Example sentences of "to my own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can go to my own bathroom and see to things myself , ’ Maggie said with an anxious look at him . |
| 2 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 3 | I wanted to get back to myself and to my own work , to all that he had robbed me of — even my own name . |
| 4 | This is the point ( not self-advertisement — the book is out of print ) of referring to my own work in such detail , and it is one to which I shall return in discussing the treatment of anorexics , in particular their apparent imperviousness to psycho-analysis and their liability to relapse . |
| 5 | I have n't managed to speak to my own government . |
| 6 | The reflection implied that this tract of wild land might have come from my own time , the epicentre of the disturbance , and so might be instrumental in restoring me to my own day ! |
| 7 | I stalked out of the hall , quite pleased with myself , and went back to my own chamber . |
| 8 | I had learnt enough so returned to my own chamber , secured the lock and , fully clothed , lay down for a fitful sleep . |
| 9 | I wondered if I should climb into a barge and pole myself across but the mists still hung over the water , I was cold , frightened , and so , following Benjamin 's instructions , returned to my own chamber . |
| 10 | when I look at Lindsey and what she 's doing at the minute , I look back to my own life at her age |
| 11 | that being said , I will reserve my right to my own opinions about ‘ gangsta ’ rap . |
| 12 | Though interested in nature , I was still frightened by the demands of the Great Beast and hung back , watching jealously how the coquettish Lady Francesca seemed to take great interest in Benjamin but remained impervious to my own presence . |
| 13 | Now it has come to my own turn and I do n't like it . ’ |
| 14 | Ignoring the veiled insult , I insisted , and Blair set off , leaving me to my own devices . |
| 15 | Sir Tom had tried to get me out , had failed , and had then left me to my own devices . |
| 16 | She had a weak chest and needed a lot of attention , whereas I was robust and could be left to my own devices . |
| 17 | She knew that I was perfectly capable of having the whole thing made in black leatherette if left to my own devices . |
| 18 | Left to my own devices I think I might have shrugged my shoulders and accepted it . |
| 19 | On the days when I am left to my own devices I am a bit of a disgrace really . |
| 20 | I was left to my own devices . |
| 21 | But on the whole they left me to my own devices . |
| 22 | I leave Skye returning to Inverness with his account very similar to my own experience barring the missiles and the guides and honestly think once again that the number of visitors to some ‘ beauty spots ’ in the Highlands and Islands were far in excess of those of today . |
| 23 | One could , with a little research , produce quite a number of examples of dates of important deposits based on residual coins , but I will limit this to my own experience with the Swanpool kiln material when I was a novice in these matters . |
| 24 | But the subjects I have been concerned with recently have been more directly related to my own experience of life : the situation in Northern Ireland ; the Gulf War ; my thoughts have come closer to home . |
| 25 | 12.02 : Left to return to my own school . |
| 26 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 27 | Er , and in general we have a , er , panel of the non-executive directors who set the directors ' salary in relation to the other directors I am also on that panel er , but obviously not in relation to my own salary . |
| 28 | I knew he , I did n't know him , I did n't know him , but I do go and see him when I saw this case was covered up , and it seems to be utterly unreasonable that this poor old chap was going to have doors slamming and banging , and then people coming out the Dance about midnight , and his whole life being disrupted , so I I turned on there , unknown to my own Council , oh , they were cross with me . |
| 29 | Why did n't I go home to my own country taking with me the sheet which bore the stains of my virginity . |
| 30 | I learned to refer to ‘ the High ’ , ‘ the Broad ’ , and ‘ the Turl ’ — where I bought , with a guilty spurt of loyalty to my own country , an antique ‘ Map of the South Part of Scotland ’ . |