Example sentences of "his [det] way " in BNC.

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1 We used to split them up and his men take his that way and th we used to bring ours this way , yeah .
2 He made for London , where he resumed his former way of life , a mixture of study and worldly pleasures , but never losing sight of the main objective .
3 But the literal Levi is a writer who has his own way of interesting himself in the contrasts which have been attributed to Babel .
4 Thus in his own way Ashton has reflected the composer 's own imaginative flight of fancy , firstly by following the academic structure of the score and secondly by using his choreographic imagination to bring to life Shakespeare 's mortals and immortals for ‘ of such stuff dreams are made ’ .
5 In the 1930s critics so variously and widely influential as Allen Tate , Yvor Winters and F. R. Leavis each in his own way considered Pound 's criticism , or some of it , and then instructed their readers that that criticism could safely be ignored .
6 But Mr Lafontaine , standard-bearer of the up-and-coming generation , and the second most important figure after Mr Vogel on the committee drafting the party programme for the next decade , has certainly not had things all his own way .
7 A public relations executive , Subba Row was a skilful diplomat accustomed to getting his own way and his methods did not always appeal to some of the county clubs or to the elder statesmen of MCC .
8 His skills as a coach ( the England player Philip Sharpe was one of his discoveries ) , his knowledge of players , his presence at cricket 's great occasions and his ability to entice the great and the famous to play for his occasional XIs combined to make him , in his own way , one of the game 's celebrities .
9 In chapter xxii of Principles of Literary Criticism Mr. Richards discusses these matters in his own way .
10 For a time it seemed that Moran might choose to remain seated and force McQuaid to make his own way out of the house .
11 Engels , on the other hand , states in the preface to the first edition of The Origin that ‘ Morgan in his own way had discovered afresh in America the materialistic conception of history , discovered by Marx forty years ago , and in his comparison of barbarism and civilization it had led him , in the main points , to the same conclusions as Marx' [ p. 71 ] .
12 If there is another problem , in that the soloist seems less interested in that theme than the orchestra and prefers to go his own way , it is resolved before the end of the work .
13 If there is another problem , in that the soloist seems less interested in that theme than the orchestra and prefers to go his own way , it is resolved before the end of the work .
14 As a communist leader who has , in his own way , resisted change said before ordering the tanks to go in , ‘ If you give a first step , it is never the last . ’
15 Fred , from Newcastle , still finds things hard , even after spending time in a ‘ halfway house ’ which let him get used to paying his own way .
16 When his mother took him to school on the first day , he decided from then onwards he could make his own way to school and did n't hesitate in telling his mother just that .
17 Angie Bowie : ‘ With the Arts Lab in full swing , Ken Pitt was ironing out the finer points of a new record deal with Mercury Records and in his own way was very lucid about David because he never actually saw him rooted in England or rooted only in rock and roll .
18 At last month 's meeting of the Congress he showed again how he can play on the mutual fears of reformers and conservatives to get his own way .
19 He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way .
20 This self-confessedly wilful boy always contrived to have a great deal of his own way and seemed able to follow his bent whenever the weather permitted .
21 Everyone registers the terror in his own way .
22 As he had always succeeded in getting his own way , the workers had been inclined to go along with him , even when their instincts told them that he was wrong .
23 He knew he 'd get his own way , although he was careful to use only his right hand .
24 He came in at the side door as though he knew his own way .
25 Roberts suggests that in his own way he 's as obsessed as the people he 's observing .
26 He lacked Cabochon 's muscle and Urran 's expertise , but he was beautiful in his own way .
27 Theoretically the luminous trail should lead rescuers to the clearing even at night … but any sensible murderer would have obliterated the road end of it after he 'd found his own way out .
28 Because I thought he could use me in his own way , and that would make me happy .
29 Each family member had his own way to express his sense of disorientation .
30 Gooch will play it his own way , whoever captains Pakistan .
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