Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] own [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Let me answer my own question . |
| 2 | Just for once , let me make my own decision . |
| 3 | When I have asked such questions , I have invariably discovered a signpost from the past , which has enabled me to find my own way forward . |
| 4 | But unlike Orwell , my journey did n't make me repudiate my own class — it did the opposite , it recuperated my class belonging . |
| 5 | I asked my own doctor when he came early this morning , but he would n't tell me . ’ |
| 6 | I asked my own surgeon how many of these prostate operations he did in a year , and he said around four hundred . |
| 7 | I made my own way out of the station . |
| 8 | She went into the bathroom and I made my own supper by slicing some of the foul cheese and shoving it between two slices of greased plastic bread . |
| 9 | I made my own mind up . |
| 10 | As a small boy , I devised my own set of cartoon animals , and they now stood me in good stead . |
| 11 | I mean my own class . |
| 12 | Yes I think er I mean my own view is that he well er erm lead the party at the next election and he 'll win it . |
| 13 | I mean your own aim is really to make yourself superfluous in the end . |
| 14 | Taking this as my cue , I produced my own drawing pad and began to draw google-eyed rabbits and donkeys , with great speed . |
| 15 | I passed me own brother by in the process . |
| 16 | Oh he says I make my own prawn cocktail he says at home and lettuce and |
| 17 | In one of my-newspaper clippings , he was quoted as having said , ‘ I make my own luck . ’ |
| 18 | I make my own purse nets but some of good quality can be bought from all well-stocked gunshops . |
| 19 | The white tube , the cork-effect filter , the solid hot flare of the match and my lips tell me of my lungs as I make my own smoke , with its blue drifting and acrid smell . |
| 20 | I got my own home and it ai n't got a broken window . |
| 21 | When we made love that day in your room , and I experienced my own frailty , it shook me . |
| 22 | I expect my own daughter will be like this in a year or two . |
| 23 | Yet I found my own conviction that the attempt would result in my death steadfast and stubborn . |
| 24 | I found my own way down . |
| 25 | I found my own apprehension of form and my sense of humour very much the same as masons of around four hundred years before . |
| 26 | I found my own level . |
| 27 | I provided my own float , I had nothing to do with any of the money . |
| 28 | I changed my own selection to that called out by a priest ahead of me . |
| 29 | As long as I maintained my own security . |
| 30 | Eleven o'clock , there were n't restrictions then on , they could keep open as long as they liked , no restrictions on , on time , and er as I say their own place you know it really it was picturesque , I thought in since erm I contacted you I 've been thinking how , what I could help with and er what I could still think about , and er it was really a sight because to walk and it always used to be crowded , well it was one of the best markets round here and er people used to go off and from Bloxwich and er although there 's a good market at Walsall there was n't a Bloxwich market then sadly for years and years , but erm and then if you went to Wolverhampton you got to walk through Windsfield you got to er walk everywhere you went then and except on a Saturday night when the wagonettes used to run on a Saturday but it was amazing to see the girl behind the range now controlling |