Sentence examples for own purse from inspiring English sources

Am I to pay for transport out of my own purse?

Perhaps if the department held its own purse strings, it would find more to learn from litigation.

Servers often seemed to know what I needed before I did, although I'm not sure that my copy of The New Yorker required its own purse stool.

All contributions accepted," Olivia joked, and made change out of her own purse for what he, holding it close to his eyes, verified was a five-dollar bill.

But surely, with a shrink-the-government Congress in control (except, perhaps, of its own members' occasionally intriguing behavior), Congress would tighten its own purse strings, wouldn't it?

Sarah described how she was so within Ray's control that she was not allowed to keep her own purse, driving licence or banker's card.

Ms Kark, whose mother, author Nina Bawden, now 86, was badly injured in the crash, said: "Directors of the two companies should have been in the dock as individuals and they should have paid out of their own purses".

We gave our daughters a certain amount of Euros for their own purses that they were responsible for.

All the investment comes from Mr. Della Valle's own private purse and is not linked to Tod's.

MajorLeagueBaseball.com has quickly followed suit, offering its own $1 million purse for a fantasy game that has paid $100,000 in years past.

This usually goes direct to the waiter/waitress who has their own change purse or, in some cases, it goes into a shared pot.