Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 he 'd also plugged his own ears with would work ?
2 He seemed suddenly to hear his own call to wake up before it was too late .
3 It 's best to let it out , ’ he said kindly , aware that he had rarely followed his own advice .
4 McQuaid felt for the authority he had slowly made his own over the years , an authority that had outgrown Moran ‘ s .
5 He had effectively signed his own death-warrant by describing himself as a British subject .
6 Benjamin must have been more than a little interested by all the information this sheet of paper contained , principally because he had scarcely known his own father , who had died before he was two years old .
7 When he carried the tray back he had already poured his own glass and drunk half of it .
8 He had always expected it , and in any case while his ministers were busy looking for a wife for him he had already made his own choice .
9 He had already had his own and he went away to play the harpsichord for twenty minutes .
10 He had still to plan his own escape route , find a way to get out of the country himself .
11 He refused only to renew his own homage or to recognize or consecrate bishops whom the king had invested .
  Next page