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Example sentences for "own part"

  • For my own part," he added, bestirring himself to refill his pipe, "I can still see a guiding light in the older faith.

  • For my own part, I shall never try to please a woman by any other methods than those which would win the regard and friendship of a man.

  • For my own part, I have rather more hope of a constituency such as Hollingford, than of one actively democratic.

  • For my own part," declared Sir William, "I want to hear a little more of men, and a little less of government.

  • For my own part, I am going to reproduce it verbatim, without one single impertinent suggestion of any point of view save that of honest reporting.

  • For my own part, I put Shadwell very high among the dramatists of his time, and I think I could show that his absolute worth is by no means inconsiderable.

  • For my own part, I shan't be able to address the bulkiest multitude; my talent doesn't lend itself to that form.

  • For my own part, I have no experience of it, and think I never shall have.

  • As for my own part, I am in good hopes, and cannot believe that Prince Agib will come to seek for me in a place under ground in the midst of a desert island.

  • For my own part, I have fallen back on landscape.

  • One reconciles one's self to the inevitable, and, for my own part, the result of my own reflections is that I am something more than acquiescent.

  • For my own part, I cannot think with patience of her marrying Mr. Elgar; or rather, I cannot think of it without dread.

  • For my own part, I always leave my wife and Mrs. Baske to go about these galleries without my company.

  • My own part in the business is accidental.

  • I can take my own part; that is--' We went into the tent and sat down, and now the rain began to pour with vehemence.

  • So I was born and bred in the great house, where I learnt to read and sew, to fear God, and to take my own part.

  • For my own part I wished for nothing better, and, rushing forward, I placed myself at the head of my new associates, and commenced flinging stones fast and desperately.

  • For my own part, I was much occupied in learning to ride the bicycle, and busy upon a series of papers discussing the probable developments of moral ideas as civilisation progressed.

  • For my own part, I had been feverishly excited all day.

  • Sincerely, for my own part, do I wish to find and know the Truth; but if this be Truth, well may she guard herself with mysteries, and cover herself with a veil.

  • And here again I marked a difference from my own part of the country.

  • I must have got very red in the face, but I spoke steadily, and told them I had no call to be a judge of others, but for my own part, it was a matter in which I had no clearness.

  • It was none too soon for me to look to my own part; for my head was scarce back at the window, before five men, carrying a spare yard for a battering-ram, ran past me and took post to drive the door in.

  • For my own part, I see a great deal of truth, and no harm at all, in that opinion.

  • For my own part, I judge of every man's truth by his degree of understanding.

  • For my own part, I would sooner wear other people's clothes than their vices; and they would sit upon me just as well.

  • For my own part, I am much pleased, and much diverted.

  • For my own part, I rejoice that the opposition are only fools, and by thus missing their treaty, will not appear knaves.

  • For my own part, I am released -again, though I have been tolerably bad, and one day had the gout for several hours in my head.

  • For my own part, I did not in the end look upon him with less terror, and well he paid me for my fears.

  • For my own part, I was brought up careful, but I've turned out a (adj.

  • But being, for my own part, as I plainly stated at the outset, incapable of such romancing, I must register Dixon as one whose ignoble blood had crept through scoundrels since the Flood.

  • We followed; and, for my own part, even if I had not been personally interested, I should have judged it well worth going a mile to witness the strong situation which supplied a sequel to our homely little drama.

  • We can nurse him between us, of course, but, for my own part, I have not a penny.

  • Well, for my own part, I have fathomed the depths of life, there is only one real sentiment--comradeship between man and man.

  • For my own part," remarked the tempter, "I do not care about doing things by halves.

  • For my own part, I am quite contented with the little lot I mean to make for myself somewhere in the country, when I mean to step into my father's shoes and plod along.

  • For my own part I have never cared about asking anyone else since the time when I was taken in by an Aetolian, who had killed a man and come a long way till at last he reached my station, and I was very kind to him.

  • For my own part I should have no more pleasure in life, but had rather die at once.

  • For my own part, although I came in for a full share of his temper, I at once made up my mind as soon as I discovered what he was, not to open my lips to him except under compulsion.

  • For my own part, I was happy when I had struck that path.

  • For my own part, I have often noticed that when I have been ill, and have been getting better, I have refused to acknowledge it, and that it has been an effort to me to say that things were not at their worst.

  • For my own part, I am just as much in the dark as my mother.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "own part" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acting chairman; bronze spear; common parlance; drawn sigh; hardly able; human beauty; listening intently; own country; own experience; own hand; own hands; own house; own life; own mind; own part; own room; own that; own way; owned enterprises; sandy beaches; scientific evidence; small fish; tall woman; wearing apparel; will suppose; yellow spots