Example sentences of "[vb infin] his own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much in the Bible exists to expose man 's tendency to make religion suit his own pleasure , or ( as might be said ) match what he finds " helpful " . |
| 2 | But Ken did n't always respect his own talent . |
| 3 | This type of suicide believes that he will survive his own death , witness the discovery of his own body , and participate in the reactions of others towards his death . |
| 4 | The first , a deep and strong desire , was that he should win his own mandate from the people . |
| 5 | He stayed in a small colonial-style house , and was given an office where he could pursue his own tasks undisturbed . |
| 6 | An expert can pursue his own investigations into the issue he has to decide , and traditionally that is one of the functions which differentiates his role from that of an arbitrator : 15.6.3 . |
| 7 | ‘ So , he did n't even know his own brother 's name . |
| 8 | Furthermore , decided the experienced landlord , if that was n't the fumes of brandy on his breath he did n't know his own business . |
| 9 | Can David know his own roads , I do n't know . |
| 10 | An artist who sketches a painting can recognise his own work . |
| 11 | His father happened to be passing , shortly after the attack , but when he went to help , he did n't recognise his own son . |
| 12 | In Bristol there was much revelry on the occasion of Queen Mary 's death in 1694 , as people celebrated to refrains of " The King shall enjoy his own again " . |
| 13 | For example , there were riots at Edinburgh and Leith on James 's birthday in 1712 , with people singing " the King shall enjoy his own again " . |
| 14 | But there again , not everyone cares to lead from the front , like Thatcher.He may lack his own philosophy , but he is a shrewd party manager . |
| 15 | He will consider his own nothingness and will form the most lofty conceptions of God , as chiefly manifesting his wisdom by the general rules according to which he directs his administration . |
| 16 | ‘ Instead , Italians have voted for fragmentation , ’ said Signor Arnaldo Forlani , the party general secretary , who said he would now consider his own position . |
| 17 | He could not make it out , nor could he trust his own memory . |
| 18 | ‘ The experience was certainly salutary , ’ wrote Niki , adding that what he learned was that he should trust his own judgement , that engineers get carried away and some drivers do n't understand their cars . |
| 19 | The sequence begins when Cassio , brought to Desdemona by Emilia ( the unwitting intermediary of evil ) , leaves in some embarrassment when he sees Othello and Iago approach : Iago moves from an upper plane ( Signifier ) to a lower ( Signified ) , from perception to interpretation : subtly doubting the former — Was that Cassio leaving your wife ? — so that Othello , who thinks he can trust his own eyes , takes the latter — so guiltily — with it , accepting a — false ! — linguistic sign . |
| 20 | Pulling it open would be too great a risk and Turner could not trust his own hands to hold the bag steady . |
| 21 | Man will voluntarily integrate his own goals with those of the organization if management works on the assumption not that people dislike work , prefer being directed rather than taking the initiative and respond only to material rewards or threats and sanctions ; but that they have needs for autonomy and independence which must be satisfied through structures of authority that allow self-motivation and self-control . |
| 22 | However , Oginga Odinga , the interim chairman of FORD , had earlier declared that he would not relinquish his own candidacy . |
| 23 | He could smell his own burned flesh on them , could see blackened streamers of skin sticking to the metal . |
| 24 | So he had to stand there , in the office of the Roadworking Operatives Supervisor in the Islington Council Seven Sisters Road Highways Department Depot , sweating like a pig and wondering why they did n't just get on with it and sack him as he listened to Mr Smith and his eyes hurt and he could smell his own body-odour again . |
| 25 | He can choose his own projects and lives a very private life . |
| 26 | Why could n't the figger choose his own portion of titanic anatomy to shaft ? |
| 27 | However , their nine-year-old son , Justin , did n't want to conform to his parents minimalist style , so they let him choose his own furniture from Habitat . |
| 28 | Now frankly , an admiral who does n't pick his own bombing targets and a broker who ca n't choose his own investments do n't seem as oppressed to me as a clerk who is n't allowed to press her own return key . |
| 29 | The new US approach fell short of outright recognition for Bazin 's government , but involved urging exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to meet with Bazin , whereas the earlier US position had been that Aristide should choose his own Prime Minister prior to his return to the country . |
| 30 | I was sitting in a chair when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me : if a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight . |