240804 What with good fortune, and his own effort, he won the first prize in the contest. CK 329148 I've heard of pseudomyopia, but I never thought my own child would come to have it. fcbond 264831 Socrates said that recognising your own ignorance is the first step towards wisdom. CK 49057 The company is owned by a group of entrepreneurs who started it right after the war. CK 62725 Kate isn't popular among her classmates because she always tries to have her own way. CK 51759 All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. CM 2709132 Some friends of mine are building their own house. They hope to finish it next summer. daed56 3128032 I suggest we both leave now and leave Tom and Mary to discuss this problem on their own. CK 954304 Sometimes I think I'll never be on my own. Both of my parents always seem to need my help. CK 2744603 There are times when you need to fight for what's right, even at the risk of your own life. CK 242453 More and more women have their own careers and are economically independent of their husbands. CM 305329 They have formed their own nationwide association, the American Association of Retired Persons. CM 318675 He puts on a show of being impartial and unbiased, but I think he's just a guy with no opinion of his own. CM 897924 We're going to make sure that no one is taking advantage of the American people for their own short-term gain. CK 1969194 Everybody has a right to his own opinion. However, sometimes it's better not to tell anybody what that opinion is. CK 347794 A man touched down on the moon. A wall came down in Berlin. A world was connected by our own science and imagination. CM 1907470 It's very easy to sound natural in your own native language, and very easy to sound unnatural in your non-native language. CK 3165728 As far as I'm concerned, what you do in your free time is your own business, as long as it doesn't interfere with your work. Hybrid 294641 His old company gave him the shaft. But I admire the way he turned bad luck into good and did even better with his own business. CM 1837947 I want a religion that respects the differences that exist between people and that states that each individual has their own personality. LanguageExpert 1230823 If you translate from your second language into your own native language, rather than the other way around, you're less likely to make mistakes. CK 2278815 The more time you spend speaking a foreign language, the better you get at guessing what non-native speakers are trying to say in your own language. CK 2033447 When we were in school, my best friend and I made our own secret code so we could write messages to each other without other people being able to read them. Chrikaru 2783162 A mistake young people often make is to start learning too many languages at the same time, as they underestimate the difficulties and overestimate their own ability to learn them. catcher