Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By accepting the role of victim he glorified his own suffering and was brought close to Christ . |
| 2 | For years he sent his own children letters from Father |
| 3 | 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his own judgement at an appointment interview , or the courage to back a teacher in difficulty from whom others had withdrawn support . |
| 4 | In May he prepared his own aircraft for flight from the local farm . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In fact he had his own office and a considerably larger area of carpet than anyone in Berebury suspected . |
| 7 | The artist paints the face and body of the sitter , but in fact he shows his own feelings . |
| 8 | I think at times he found his own handsomeness an awful burden : people just would n't let him alone . |
| 9 | At Southampton he made his own position devastatingly clear to the waiting journalists . |