Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] his [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The lesson was offered in the particular terms of the four years , from sixteen to twenty-one , which a youth would expect to spend as an apprentice working towards officer status ; it was to be interpreted by each of the readers according to his own aim in life .
2 Each one bewildered to hear men speaking in his own language .
3 Tearing into the Instrument , some behave ‘ as if they had been in the schools , where each man had liberty to propose his own Utopia , and to frame commonwealths according to his own fancy
4 More than that , the Donny of the '90s is sufficiently mature and ( deep voice ) masculine to cause Tom Jones sleepless nights worrying about his own sexuality .
5 Next Trent had listed those facts appertaining to his own role .
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