Example sentences of "his own work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonard could be fastidious to the nth degree in completing his own work — he has always said that he works ‘ one word at a time , ’ and can spend months , even years , in adding finesse to it ; he is nevertheless dismissive of anything approaching scholarly exactitude , still more so pedantry . |
| 2 | Somehow his feelings became detached from the critical procedures ( not that he does not handle and assess his own work critically , which he does ) . |
| 3 | What with one Oscar-nominated script ( Educating Rita ) and another potential hit ( Shirley Valentine ) behind him , ex-hairdresser Russell was not sniffy about translating his own work from stage to screen . |
| 4 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 5 | He has elevated inscriptions to a new seriousness because the wording of his own work is not bland and ranges from the delphic to the painfully controversial . |
| 6 | Wesker might be accused of being somewhat subjective about the play , a charge that may be repeated as the producer of his own work . |
| 7 | In at least one case , an artist has requested the option to buy back his own work , only for his letter to go unanswered ; Saatchi is known to have split up one series of paintings which were sold to him on the strength of verbal assurances that they would stay together . |
| 8 | The first was his own work , the latter the somewhat ambiguous achievement of Denis Healey , with incidental assistance from the IMF , the central banks , and Jack Jones of the Transport Workers . |
| 9 | In the opening sequence of Hurlement , as Levin notes , Debord provides the audience with a reference to a cinematic tradition in which his own work is putatively situated . |
| 10 | Bawden loved his own work and found it soothing to live surrounded by it . |
| 11 | It was known that Potter wanted to direct some of his own work at some stage . |
| 12 | All his own work |
| 13 | Just as his theoretical awareness of the importance of sense-experience as a basis for science went along with an increasing interest in practical , experimental investigation of the world , so his theoretical advocacy of Epicurean atomism went along with his actual use of it in his own work ; for example , in an account he gave of various optical phenomena produced by the sun . |
| 14 | Luther saw that it was not a matter of his own work but God 's work . |
| 15 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 16 | He hesitated , reluctant to destroy any part of his own work . |
| 17 | The lauding of Hitler 's modesty was compared with the tone of self-praise with regard to his own work and effort which had been a feature of his New Year address . |
| 18 | Although Mr Raban has been described as ‘ the finest writer afloat since Conrad ’ , he modestly forbears to include his own work . |
| 19 | They are said to be his own work , although the truth is that he probably has the final say . |
| 20 | Wainwright 's books must continue to be available to all who are prepared to accept his own work , as he wrote it , and as the product of his own generation ( and preferably bearing the cherished stamp of the Westmorland Gazette ) . |
| 21 | His own work certainly deserves to survive . |
| 22 | Alexia and Cameron III gently chided him for his whistling habit , and he developed an aversion to his own work . |
| 23 | For the first time , he understood his own work . |
| 24 | As his contribution to The Gentleman 's Magazine quoted above shows , he was also capable of promoting his own work . |
| 25 | Nicholson was naturally defensive and protective of his own work : ‘ I saw it a thousand and one times and I loved it . |
| 26 | In more than half the cases where the occupations of grandparents are mentioned , this is partly because the father followed a grandfather in his own work . |
| 27 | He admits he lost his naiveté and began to think more deeply about his own work and photojournalism generally . |
| 28 | There sprang into existence a new kind of book of which Cyril Burt 's How the Mind Works is a good example , despite the cloud under which some of his own work has recently fallen . |
| 29 | But we are thrown a hint that his triumph is hardly long-lived , for when he stands , alone , high above the still forms of the dead below , it is not a look of satisfaction that he throws us , but one of puzzlement at his own work . |
| 30 | Rush 's paper in March 1836 to the Veterinary Medical Society on The Blood Circulation in the Foetus and Adult , and the changes it undergoes during Respiration was challenged by Vines as an unacknowledged copy of his own work . |