Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expressing his absolute contempt of bands who rely on ambient , effect-heavy swirling guitar sounds , Bernard insists his own playing will never take a back seat musically . |
| 2 | This was , in fact , the key to Franco 's foreign policy throughout the Second World War : he viewed it primarily in terms of an opportunity to realize his own expansionist aims in Morocco . |
| 3 | Clarkson 's narrative revealed his own perseverance and commitment until exhaustion and financial difficulty overtook him in 1794 and Hoare fastened upon Clarkson 's continuing ‘ zeal ’ . |
| 4 | Cuthbert Welch , the medical officer of health , took the opportunity to emphasise his own higher responsibilities . |
| 5 | Should the auditor design his own software packages ? |
| 6 | Melissa was horrified when the bounder made his own designs clear as she modelled a £700 Prince of Wales check trouser suit in a London park . |
| 7 | The Colonel was not normally one whose nerve or self-confidence could be shaken by a comrade 's torment — he had seen too much and , besides , a soldier in the field made his own luck — but sitting now in the darkness , hardly aware of the familiar sounds of a barracks coming to life , the hollow ring of that dead voice seemed to re-echo in his ears . |
| 8 | Together they negotiate a solution to the problem , the first speaker A asking the second B to repair the term by making it more specific , and the second several times repairing his own explanation to make it clearer ( capitals indicate stress ) : |
| 9 | An anonymous letter from an opponent of the regime in Franconia , condemning the ‘ puppet show ’ of the Reichstag and claiming ninety per cent of Germans shared his own desire , that Hitler ‘ disappear from the face of the earth as fast as possible ’ , was an absurd exaggeration . |
| 10 | In the absence of any more eligible candidate , MacDonald became his own Foreign Secretary . |
| 11 | Instead , he destabilized his own government by selecting totally inadequate ministers and , deferring to his hysterical wife , allowed the depraved ‘ holy man ’ Rasputin to tarnish his own popular image and that of tsarism itself . |
| 12 | The male has his own repertoire of survival tricks to protect the brood . |
| 13 | Difficult or not , Hermés went ahead and told Ross Lovegrove to write his own brief and design whatever he wanted . |
| 14 | Hermés told Lovegrove to write his own brief and design whatever he wanted |
| 15 | Another contender may be the emerging empire of Thaksin Shinawatra , who began by distributing IBM computers in Thailand , set up the country 's first cable-television operation and has now received permission to establish his own cellular-telephone network . |
| 16 | He really was , at that moment , one for whom there were ‘ two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings , myself and my Creator ’ , as Newman described his own experience . |
| 17 | During most of the time Jenkins was there , there was a fixed number of songs on the island , a kind of ‘ song pool ’ from which each young male drew his own small repertoire . |
| 18 | The Marine clenched his own fist which seemed almost as large as any boy 's head , though this was not actually the case . |
| 19 | Joachim eventually broke away from the Cistercians and retired to a lonely spot in Calabria where disciples gathered around him and he was given papal permission to found his own congregation . |
| 20 | The final seal of royal approval was given when the Prince built his own holiday retreat in Brighton . |
| 21 | He was having enough difficulty understanding his own feelings , without trying to fathom out Carrie 's . |
| 22 | Secrets are not confined to the great houses of antiquity : Mr Merdle in Little Dorrit has his own new secrets , and is uneasy beneath the eye of his butler in his new London palace : ‘ He would have clasped himself by the wrists in that constabulary manner of his , and have paced up and down the hearth-rug , or gone creeping about among the rich objects of furniture , if his oppressive retainer had appeared in the room at that very moment . ’ |
| 23 | He had been at his wits ' end , with no reply to Bigwig 's scornful impatience except his readiness to risk his own life in company with Fiver and Pipkin . |
| 24 | The operation came to an end on 8 October 1988 , when Mazur faked his own wedding stag night . |
| 25 | He no doubt intended to bring the local Forest administration more closely under his control : he certainly used his opportunities to promote his own relatives . |
| 26 | Edward made his own views clear by stating that he regarded the 1328 treaty as invalid because it had been made when he was a minor and under the tutelage of others and that his title to the overlordship of Scotland should be reasserted . |
| 27 | Can David know his own roads , I do n't know . |
| 28 | The unexpected , and probably unwelcome , advice came as the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , was busy rewriting the Budget speech in an attempt to secure his own political survival . |
| 29 | Owner Jeremy Scott has his own restoration workshop . |
| 30 | If , as now seems certain , that is not possible , then Flushing Meadow , where every regular tennis journalist has his own horror story to tell about the failures of the elevators which carry them to the Press Box in the sky , will remain ‘ the place we love to hate ’ . |