Example sentences of "his [det] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was his own man , after all . |
| 2 | At the same time , both here and in Hawksmoor , Ackroyd , too , is his own man . |
| 3 | As he put his foot on the doorstep , a young man seemed to jostle him — it was young McCulloch from Weem , the sulky handsome lad with the curly head — why had he come hanging about here instead of hearing his own man preach in Weem ? |
| 4 | Dave is very much his own man — young and impulsive and finally the arbiter of his own convictions . |
| 5 | Arthur Rank was no longer applying pressure on him to make bigger , more ambitious pictures , and Balcon was very much his own man . |
| 6 | One mattered for him personally : he showed himself to be his own man . |
| 7 | He was an undoubted intellectual heavyweight ; he was a creative minister interested in political ideas ; and , above all , he was entirely his own man . |
| 8 | But though he had taken all my poetic power , and gave me some of his in return , he still remained himself , his own man , his own poet . |
| 9 | Today , it is removed , because he has become his own man , with his own government . |
| 10 | He is at last , and to his evident relief , his own man . |
| 11 | Max Jacob , subtle and devious , was driven by a deep sense of insecurity to please everybody and to stage-manage his friends ’ lives , whereas Modi was direct and uncompromising , always his own man despite his inner anxiety . |
| 12 | He sighed grimly , and sent his own man Andrew to help Farquhar get his son down ; if not sober , at least tidy . |
| 13 | Keith shouted to his own man . |
| 14 | John Biffen , a very straight character and very much his own man , said of Mrs Thatcher 's handling of Westland , ‘ I thought the Cabinet discussion … was reasonable enough . |
| 15 | The process will , of course , be greatly expedited if the Tories form the next Government and the Prime Minister can claim to be his own man with his own mandate . |
| 16 | It was said that Harry Short 's great strength was that he had never tried to imitate smarter trainers , that he played by his rules , was his own man , but even this was flattering him . |
| 17 | It looks as though Heseltine secured Walker 's appointment before he left the DoE , in order to have his own man in place . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't accept the idea that all of a sudden Major is his own man , ’ Margaret Thatcher pronounced firmly in Newsweek this week . |
| 19 | Since he arrived at Number Ten , back in November 1990 , friends have been insisting that he is his own man , sometimes protesting too much in the process . |
| 20 | The latest reshuffle , immediately following victory , was supposed to confirm , once and for all , that Major was his own man . |
| 21 | Major 's first chance to show that he is his own man has been squandered on favours . |
| 22 | I DO N'T accept the idea that all of a sudden John Major is his own man . |
| 23 | Let them try : he was his own man now at last , at twenty-eight . |
| 24 | He was simply his own man and had no intention of playing Ferrari or any other games . |
| 25 | But Niki , again , was his own man . |
| 26 | ‘ You ca n't compare anyone with Gary Lineker because he was his own man . |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose I was careless but in any case your father never welcomed interference in his affairs , he was his own man . ’ |
| 28 | Careless , confident , his own man even then . |
| 29 | Once again , he was his own man , went his own way which meant he often lacked utterly the pleasing , the plasticine complicity a great screen actor needs . |
| 30 | Three big movies ; drinking with Bogie ; flirting with Garbo ; taken up by Hedda Hopper , ‘ the most exciting success story since Gregory Peck 's contracts of ten years back ’ ; liked by directors ; known as his own man and a tough one ; married to a charmer and , now at peace with Olivia de Havilland , sitting on the floor at a last party telling her that he was ‘ terrified ’ of going back to play Hamlet , would wake up in the middle of the night sweating and shaking at the thought , unable to go back to sleep . |