Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] his [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bénezet had been in his service long enough to understand his own part in the operation in hand without having to be told . |
| 2 | Nicholas believed that ‘ No man can so much advance his own good and happiness in anything as endeavouring all that in him lies the good and welfare of others ; and who doth that daily doth perform the greatest good to himself as he can desire or wish for . ’ |
| 3 | And for good measure , it should be noted that the ECO long ago expressed his own conclusion that settlement in the UK was the intention in this case . |
| 4 | He was about to experiment with a drastic remedy — not only taking his own advice but overriding that ‘ occasionally ’ by cohabiting with a prostitute as a common law wife . |
| 5 | The educationalist Sir Robert Gould once said that a child being educated in Great Britain could not possibly understand his own environment without understanding something about Christianity ; and he was right . |
| 6 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 7 | Coleridge had not yet evolved his own system , and in many respects his development had run parallel to Wordsworth 's . |
| 8 | Benjamin ‘ Bibi ’ Netanyahu , the recently elected leader of the dispirited party , is concerned above all to maintain unity , and has not yet shown his own hand . |
| 9 | He became a freeman of the London Broderers ' Company on 26 February 1691 , soon afterwards establishing his own business . |
| 10 | Not that he any more minded his own business now than he had before . |
| 11 | Milton tells us in Paradise Lost that Satan , even after his fall , still dimly reflects his former glory . |
| 12 | But Mr Clinton , 46 , was yesterday taking no chances and set out on a final round-the-clock trek to nine states before heading home today to cast his own vote . |
| 13 | It is perhaps a mistake , though , to try to identify too many categories of independent craftsmen , even though the sources can attest a surprising level of specialization ; in a small community , a jobbing builder could be his own mason , bricklayer , carpenter , tiler , thatcher , and slater , possibly even burning his own lime and making his own bricks . |
| 14 | The crucial feature is the irrecoverable loss by a patient of the ability ever again to sustain his own breathing and heartbeat , as a consequence of the total destruction of a functioning brain-stem . |
| 15 | He also strongly reaffirmed his own position as a " loyal and disciplined member of the ANC " , in full agreement with the movement 's " objectives , strategies and tactics " . |
| 16 | A gardener who went blind four years ago is now successfully running his own business . |
| 17 | As Best defied his own name and went from bad to worse , the former United star had pellets injected into his stomach in a failed bid to combat alcoholism ; he spent time in jail for drunk driving , police assault and jumping bail , and at his most desperate offered his services to any football team willing to pay £1,000 to include him in their team . |
| 18 | He wanted to go there once more and start out again choosing his own route and finding his own freedom . |
| 19 | FRENCH auctioneer Jean-Louis Picard , now happily hoeing his own row since his much-publicised split with Jacques Tajan , is breaking new ground . |
| 20 | As the British conservative Roger Scruton rather inelegantly expresses his own indignation about feminist linguistic reform , ‘ Each of us inherits in language the wisdom of many generations . |
| 21 | TV personality Leslie Crowther , 59 , has recovered from his car crash coma well enough to write his own name at Bristol 's Frenchay Hospital . |
| 22 | But Dad does n't just have his own hatred — he 's got Jonathan 's too . |
| 23 | But Ken did n't always respect his own talent . |
| 24 | Did you know that Cecil Beaton could n't even load his own camera ? |
| 25 | When I spoke to Mrs. Olinton she said that Mr. Olinton was so set against Scouts and Guides that he would n't even let his own daughter , Jessica , join Brownies , although she wanted to . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ So , he did n't even know his own brother 's name . |
| 27 | She had n't yet seen his own advertisement in that morning 's paper , but he had told her he was putting one in . |
| 28 | The first set was an evenly-based affair , but Carrara seized his chance at 4–4 , when he broke Baglin to go one ahead and then duly held his own service game to establish a one-set lead . |
| 29 | Why else publish his own guide in 1822 and 1835 — Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England with Views , as it was first entitled ? |