Example sentences of "at his own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 2 | And having met him , he at once began studying him and suffering with him : observing him ab extra and sharing the inside of his head ; hence his sense that he is both witnessing and experiencing the ‘ strange smile ’ which accompanies Raskolnikov 's surprise at his own dread of meeting his landlady . |
| 3 | Oldham have transfer-listed Keith Atkinson , a utility back , for £10,000 at his own request . |
| 4 | Roberts , on the transfer list at his own request , cost United £15,000 from Darlington last year . |
| 5 | Hand 's team , however , replied impressively seven minutes later when Maskell , transfer-listed at his own request after scoring 33 goals last season , scored his first of this , Cecere laying the ball off to the ambitious young man whose crisp drive was a powerful argument for a rise in status . |
| 6 | While the others went on to further success he fought and eventually won a battle against alcoholism , but his writing partnership with Cleese did not survive it , and , at his own choice , he was not a member of the Python film company Prominent Features . |
| 7 | The likeable Glover , a most sympathetic horseman , trains at his own Pinewood Stables at Carburton , near Worksop , which sounds horrendously urban , but is n't . |
| 8 | Salford , who turned down a Leeds approach for Ian Bragger , yesterday listed Steve Herbert for £20,000 , at his own request . |
| 9 | After a time teaching in a Scottish school , Fettes , the degree got him a fellowship in mathematics at his own college of Magdalene ; where he remained the rest of his long life — teaching mathematics , holding various college offices , going every week to Emmanuel Congregational chapel , and becoming after a time one of its deacons or church officers . |
| 10 | Ramsey 's father was determined to have the boy at his own university and if possible at his own college . |
| 11 | Ramsey 's father was determined to have the boy at his own university and if possible at his own college . |
| 12 | Arnold Bennett caught this splendidly in the story of Denry Machin , an ambitious and well-off young councillor , who brought back a local footballing hero to the town at his own expense . |
| 13 | ‘ Müller is all right , ’ Nordern said , a little surprised at his own warmth . |
| 14 | It was a dinner held at his own expense in a private room at Magdalen , and it was a symptom of his great generosity . |
| 15 | ‘ I suspect her trouble is menopausal , ’ Doctor Staples confided , smiling inwardly at his own two-faced diplomacy . |
| 16 | Baldness , he told himself — and smiled at his own joke — was a receding problem . |
| 17 | Through the successive phases of his career — at Gainsborough , Gaumont-British and then at his own Ealing Studios — he was to show that his talent lay in finding the most talented people available , giving them the best context to work in , inspiring and stimulating their efforts and intervening where necessary to ensure that the best possible film came out of the production process . |
| 18 | He showed them into the lift , shaking hands with them both , and as Catherine turned away from him to press the lift button , he suddenly raised his eyebrows at McLeish in amusement at his own response to her . |
| 19 | With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start . |
| 20 | ‘ The River Rat ! ’ he boomed , laughing heartily at his own joke , ‘ never takes his hat off because he 's BALD and never puts his boat in the river because he CA N'T SAIL ! ’ |
| 21 | Gaily was surprised at himself , at his own reactions . |
| 22 | He examined his own hands , looked at his own feet , touched his own face , rubbed his own tongue against his own teeth , breathed in , breathed out . |
| 23 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 24 | He shies at his own shadow and he 's as stubborn as a pig . |
| 25 | ten knights ' fees in chief of the lord King , from the service of which he was exonerated on account of his custody of the forest , and in return for finding his foresters at his own cost . |
| 26 | He was bound to provide at his own cost one riding forester and two walking foresters to keep his bailiwick , and to perform the military service of ‘ going in the army at the King 's cost wherever the King goes ’ . |
| 27 | The replacement of Mr Burbulis , which the decree said was at his own request , will go some way to placating those in both the liberal and conservative camps annoyed by his somewhat high-handed manner . |
| 28 | I was particularly taken by Debra Gillett as the likeable innocent who takes some hard knocks before the night is out , while Danny Webb offers a memorable portrait of the sharpest and most driven of the salesmen , cruelly torn between elation at his own success and a growing awareness of just how grubby the whole operation is . |
| 29 | In 1964 , although widely expected to reach the higher echelons of the Army , Winchester retired at his own request and settled in Kenya , where he kept dairy cattle on a farm outside Nairobi . |
| 30 | He boasts of his restaurant in Barnes , assures the actors that as a restaurateur he , too , is something of a performer ( ’ flambe is not flambe without flair ’ ) , and laughs delightedly at his own jokes . |