Example sentences of "his [det] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Although the strong-minded NegrÃn was never the Communist catspaw his many critics accused him of being , there was little he could do in the circumstances to prevent the Communists from exercising an increasingly independent and even dominant role within Republican Spain . |
2 | Although he could buy his dwelling-place whether his former owner wanted him to or not , he could acquire farmland only if the owner chose to sell it . |
3 | His own studies led him towards a much-modified Congregationalism , with a threefold ministry of evangelists , pastors , and teachers . |
4 | Thoughts of butchers ' knives and bloodied axes galvanized the boy into frantic action , but he had no sooner broken into a sprint along the alley than the sound of his own footsteps stopped him in his tracks . |
5 | Byron was a " touring tragedian " whose preoccupation with his own performance made everything outside himself seem unreal , an actor " who devoted immense trouble to becoming a role that he adopted " . |
6 | Doubts about the genuineness of his own faith troubled him for many years . |
7 | Nothing seemed to exist outside that swaying chair and Simon , whose terrifying ability to repress his own humanity made him into an enemy that Gazzer did n't know how to defeat . |
8 | When one of his own officials insulted him at a Leeds meeting Mosley knocked him unconscious . |
9 | ' . Doubtless , the relevance of these remarks to Eliot 's view of his own time attracted him to them . |