Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] his own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 2 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 3 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
| 4 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 5 | He contradicted himself within his own question by saying that we have no constitutional ideas and then identifying an area on which we are currently consulting with a view to making constitutional changes . |
| 6 | Wexford let himself into his own house and the dog Clytemnestra galloped to meet him . |
| 7 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 8 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |
| 9 | Yet the new role of emperor was held in control by Charles who used it for his own ends , which were often of the highest order and extended far beyond mere materialism . |
| 10 | Searle was a rogue and used it for his own purposes . |
| 11 | God created us for His own purposes , gave us free will to decide between good and evil , but retained unto Himself the ultimate decisions about the creation of life . |
| 12 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |
| 13 | Laura wondered in a daze as he swiftly divested himself of his own clothing , and then , in the grip of a feverish , shuddering excitement , she responded as his lovemaking became more pressing and urgent . |
| 14 | For a second he looked exasperated and then he murmured something in his own language and suddenly drew her to her feet , his hands gripping hers , steadying her and comforting . |
| 15 | She was shivering against him , and he helped her back to the fire and bundled her in his own bedroll ; but she kept her arms about him . |
| 16 | The Spanish pistol was still clutched in his right hand ; Maxim took it away and dropped it in his own pocket . |
| 17 | Instead of submitting his organisation to the will of party bureaucrats , he turned it into his own power-base and started bombarding the party with his own initiatives . |
| 18 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 19 | I 'd let my dad down , humiliated him in his own street . |
| 20 | Rachel put her bag down beside her new desk and chair , then followed him into his own office . |
| 21 | Jolitz reportedly mortgaged his house to start the initial 386BSD project and subsequently finished it in his own time . |
| 22 | On the Thursday ( 10 December ) Baldwin presented the King 's message of renunciation to the House of Commons , and followed it by his own account and justification of events . |
| 23 | As a keen walker and lover of the countryside Hardy would surely approve of how West Dorset has been preserved to be enjoyed by people today as he enjoyed it in his own time . |
| 24 | They will offer us Mozart 's music as he would have played it and heard it in his own day . |
| 25 | It took the London store magnate Gordon Selfridge , who included them in his own advertising copy in the evening papers , to show that publishing them would increase the value of the paper to its readers , rather than make them desert to a rival medium . |
| 26 | Edward settled himself in his own chair , turning to look directly at Corbett . |
| 27 | Deeply rooted in peasant culture was the belief that the land should belong to whoever worked it with his own hands . |
| 28 | The colonel ran out into the road , blocked the animal 's path and guided it into his own yard , where his children calmed it . ’ |
| 29 | It was the aspect of Harlequin as servant that intrigued Massine , who employed it in his own portrayal of the factotums , bar-tenders and servants in several works . |
| 30 | He also related them to his own state of affairs . |