Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] his [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This courage was to later re-emerge when , as an adviser , he fought to bring about educational change and improved resources , or , when against opposition he backed his own judgement at an appointment interview , or the courage to back a teacher in difficulty from whom others had withdrawn support . |
| 2 | In May he prepared his own aircraft for flight from the local farm . |
| 3 | For many years he ran his own scaffolding company but the recession forced him out of business . |
| 4 | For 54 years he directed his own wine firm and , at around 80 years of age , launched the London Wine Exchange . |
| 5 | For years he sent his own children letters from Father |
| 6 | With a funny crooked smile he undid his own buttons , then gently pressed her face against his bared chest , his palms warm and hard against her head . |
| 7 | Far from calling himself a god he admits his own inadequacies — he can not rebuild the dome , he can not claim to have fed on honey-dew and drunk the Milk of paradise . |
| 8 | In John Cowan 's Look at IFA Sales Performance he cited his own career as an example of rapid change . |
| 9 | Later in life he compared his own feelings at the two ordinations to be a deacon and a priest and his later consecration to be a bishop . |
| 10 | In Sliwa 's last stunt he faked his own kidnapping and blamed it on off-duty police officers . |
| 11 | At Southampton he made his own position devastatingly clear to the waiting journalists . |
| 12 | I think at times he found his own handsomeness an awful burden : people just would n't let him alone . |
| 13 | On the one hand he saw his own suspicions mirrored in the Bishop 's eyes , on the other Wishart realised that such an interview might alienate the French and cause more trouble than it was worth . |
| 14 | No doubt there were many contributory external or psychological factors in what was happening to the way he perceived his own personality . |
| 15 | The same secretive manner , the way he considered his own wishes to be paramount , the odd furtive way he stared at her when he thought she was not aware of it . |
| 16 | In its imagery it recalls his own Deploratio virginitatis male amissae of long ago : |
| 17 | Those cropped military curls , that monumental neck and straight nose , would have looked well in a bronze helmet ; no doubt he recognised his own kind , and was at home with them . |
| 18 | From the balcony he thanked his many friends for their support , and the Lord God for showing the jury his divine wisdom . |
| 19 | In 1626 he reported to the Commons on the outcome of the York House conference , at which George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , had declared his support for Arminianism ; and when he delivered one of the Commons charges against Buckingham in the Lords he added his own gloss that he was ‘ the principal patron of a semi-pelagian , semi-popish faction , dangerous to church and state , lately set on foot among us . ’ |
| 20 | STAN FLASHMAN went crazy again yesterday — but this time he attacked his own Barnet players , branding them ‘ greedy bastards ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , he 's trying to make himself look useful so the next time he wants his own name in the paper I 'll remember and do his bidding . |
| 22 | By accepting the role of victim he glorified his own suffering and was brought close to Christ . |
| 23 | For a breathspace he saw his own body ; he thought that Taliesin and Fribble had carried it to a settle beneath a window , and he wanted to grasp at them , for they had been dear , good friends , and the knowledge that he would never see them again was scarcely to be borne . |
| 24 | In fact he had his own office and a considerably larger area of carpet than anyone in Berebury suspected . |
| 25 | The artist paints the face and body of the sitter , but in fact he shows his own feelings . |
| 26 | At the end of such evenings he found his own bed alone , walking through blackened courts where once Saracen climbers had run with fire among the poisoned and the dying . |