Example sentences of "[conj] he [adv] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw that he probably encountered his own body as worthless and warped and that he identified his body as his self , but he was wrong . |
| 2 | Patiently , he explained that he now ran his own fledgling advertising agency . |
| 3 | Indeed , he has subverted the stake-in-the-heart , garlic-and-cross myth and has become so popular that he now has his own New Orleans-based fanclub . |
| 4 | ‘ What man in the whole world ’ , C. S. Lewis asked , ‘ except a father or a potential father-in-law , cares whether any other man gets married ? ’ and he partly answered his own question by saying that the ‘ self-abnegation ’ and ‘ anxiety ’ of the Poet for his Friend 's good was ‘ more like a parent 's than a lover 's ’ . |
| 5 | In fact , he was to learn of it the very next day , and he duly performed his own half of the bargain with a strangely honourable integrity . |
| 6 | And he now downgrades his own Maginot Line at Volx to a mere 8b± , after Patrick Edlinger discovered a toe-hook move to overcome the crux . |
| 7 | From this episode Hopkins evoked a magnificent description of that wild night ; but he also provided his own elucidation of God 's dealing with His creatures : God had shown forth both His majesty and His compassion . |
| 8 | He 's unpatronising towards the individuals whose lives and circumstances illustrate his subject , but he continually questions his own attitudes and motivation . |
| 9 | His philosophy took a long time to be appreciated , partly because he never pushed his own work , which was subsequently overshadowed by that of Wittgenstein . |
| 10 | The advantages of an exchange rather than a sale , says Mr Nunn ( who set up the business after he successfully swapped his own home ) , are : no chain of buyers and sellers to fall through , stamp duty is payable only on any difference in price between the two properties , and agents ' fees are less . |
| 11 | Now that virtue could be acknowledged in the toddler as he freely followed his own natural pursuits and interests — not excluding the exploration of his own body-the ground was finally prepared for an acceptance of babies ' desires as needs in themselves : ‘ Babies want attention ; they probably need plenty of it ’ ( Children 's Bureau , 1945 ) . |
| 12 | He seemed quite unperturbed by her behaviour , by being walloped across the face , and she watched in amazement as he calmly took his own glass and sat in the chair opposite . |
| 13 | The coroner met both attackers , catching their weapons in a whirling arc of steel as he nimbly spun his own in self-defence . |