Example sentences of "his own hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Makarenko was thus driven to take the law into his own hands in order to survive , but his pupils needed no encouragement in this respect , since they themselves were the product of a disturbed society . |
| 2 | Another disc started , Herr Hocher placing it on the record-player with his own hands , the result being a foxtrot played by a Russian orchestra , and he himself took the floor with Fräulein Renn , the pair of them going through what seemed to the young people weirdly funny gyrations together . |
| 3 | At the time of going to press the arrangements for the consecration of these first black bishops of modern times are not yet complete , but it is rumoured that the Holy Father has expressed the wish to elevate all three distinguished sons of Africa to the plenitude of the priesthood with his own hands . |
| 4 | If God had not kept everything in his own hands , life might be a bit clearer . |
| 5 | Twice , soloist Konrad Ragossnig 's attempts to start were thwarted by birdsong , so the Rector — Robin Clark — took matters into his own hands . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One impatient customer , David Pollard , has taken things into his own hands and is rushing out his own edition in time for the general election . |
| 8 | Within seconds he had felled Giggs , leaving the United winger crumpled on the Old Trafford mudheap after taking the law into his own hands . |
| 9 | Mr Chubb said : ‘ It was then Denega decided to take matters into his own hands . ’ |
| 10 | Martyn referred to Miller 's use of works by those better versed in scientific aspects of gardening , to whom due acknowledgment is given , and concluded with an appreciation of the author 's own industry : ‘ As to the practical part , he has given t is hardly anything but from his own knowledge and of the great number of plants mentioned in his book there are scarce any which he has not cultivated with his own hands . ’ |
| 11 | Since the Emperor wished to retain ultimate control of foreign policy in his own hands , he was able to meet other European sovereigns in a suitable setting in which both parties could feel at ease . |
| 12 | Marcus became gentler , moved to sit nearer to Patrick , ceased his exertions and , after gazing at Pat for some time , began to caress one of his hands , turning it about in his own hands and pressing it . |
| 13 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 14 | He has perished at his own hands at the death . |
| 15 | His nose tingled with the remembered scent of the hot oily smell which pulsed from the blaring roundabout and the acrid odour of his own hands , faintly green from clutching the brass post so tightly . |
| 16 | He usually distributes with his own hands alms to the poor , and carefully divides a tithe of his wealth among the churches and monasteries . |
| 17 | And when the colonel himself seemed to have taken matters into his own hands by delegating him to a job that tired him out day after day , week after week , it seemed they had been successful . |
| 18 | At their wedding ceremony on Christmas Eve , 1873 , John took embarrassing matters into his own hands and nominated a Thomas Tiller as his father and claimed to be of full age . |
| 19 | Wherever possible the pupil would intervene with his own thought , his own hands and his own will to learn . |
| 20 | What the textbook can summarise in a page of results — life is cellular , cells have water and carbon , cells divide to multiply — our methods with the child 's own work , with his own hands , with his own microscope and his own laboured arithmetic may take six weeks of classroom effort . |
| 21 | Nicholas withdrew his own hands and placed them lightly on her two shoulders . |
| 22 | Faced with a national drought that was playing havoc with his own garden and those of his village neighbours , one Richard Bullock took matters into his own hands and ended up in the dock for his pains . |
| 23 | He 'd have to take the matter into his own hands . |
| 24 | Despite his best efforts to concentrate power effectively within his own hands , the emphasis on local authority implicit in a system purporting to operate through the traditional rulers of a primitive country , which possessed nothing approaching a unitary state co-extensive with its official boundaries , inevitably meant that power would drain away from the centre towards the local administrator , who alone could claim the special knowledge of local conditions , and opportunity for intimate supervision , on which Indirect Rule implicitly depended . |
| 25 | He had felt driven , as the judge said , to take that law into his own hands . |
| 26 | Maybe Brando agreed with Clift ; in any case , sensing he had more to offer than an actor 's tools , he decided to take his destiny into his own hands and he set about producing One-Eyed Jacks , a western , in 1960 . |
| 27 | ‘ All the pieces were in place and now he 's taking everything into his own hands . |
| 28 | Naturally , d'Arquebus Senior never sullied his own hands — or his eyes — by descending with bodyguards from the Spinoza estate to inspect the actual processes of manufacture by tech clans . |
| 29 | Early last month , a Russian war veteran took matters into his own hands and delivered to the German embassy in Moscow a cache of drawings , prints and paintings , among which , according to the German Foreign Office , is a Durer . |
| 30 | These cords trail away into the distance , and there can be seen the hands of Drachenfels himself , drawing the essence out of the soul and into his own hands . |