Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] his [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handing her one of the mugs , his eyes on her apprehensive face , he slowly sipped his own coffee . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He effectively cast his own vote against the Islamic trend by calling on his subjects not to vote for extremist religious ideologies — a move which could prove counter-productive . |
| 5 | He still wanted his own way . |
| 6 | He still held his own automatic in his left hand , and he was raising it towards the door as he backed off . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She remembered those days when they had played together as children , too , he always getting his own way . |
| 9 | He hardly knew his own mind , they said candidly among their own intimates . |
| 10 | As an apprentice director he quickly defined his own idiom but it took the initiative and the backing of MGM 's Irving Thalberg to sponsor his big prestige films . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ He once had his own phone line but was disconnected by BT after running up huge bills . |
| 12 | He usually took his own washing to the laundry . |
| 13 | ‘ No , he usually brings his own lunch and eats it here . ’ |
| 14 | While a close personal friend and follower , he also enjoyed his own power base in the midlands and an independent career in the service of the king and his son Edward . |
| 15 | He also ran his own radio station , Breakfast pirate Radio , where he met his wife . |
| 16 | He also added his own adaptation of early Beefheart into his strange songs , recorded them and pressed up a couple of hundred records for friends , family and whoever . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At one point , he was screaming at the top of his voice ; he also relived his own birth , met his fears of homosexuality and had the most terrifying fright ‘ that my prick was going to be cut off ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He joyously reached his own half-century but immediately became Akram 's fifth wicket . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 22 | He often had his own tape-recorder running to make sure there were no liberties with the editing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He now runs his own business in Liverpool . |
| 25 | He even stylized his own signature to look like a logo alongside Liquitex and Formica . |
| 26 | He even sent his own plane ! |
| 27 | For a while he even hosted his own talk show . |
| 28 | He even has his own chair in the lounge , close to the fire , and it is decorated with a beautifully embroidered head cloth , displaying his auspicious title , the handsome work of one of Scourie 's regular lady guests . |
| 29 | He strongly reaffirmed his own position as " a loyal and disciplined member of the ANC … in full agreement with all of its objectives , strategies and tactics . " |
| 30 | He then explained his own position , which was quite different . |