Example sentences of "[noun] his own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Douglas was glad to acknowledge Miller 's help and told the Royal Society that he had received some coconuts ‘ germinated in this country by the industrious Mr. Miller , by whose care and skill they were brought to this perfection ; and besides he very freely communicated to me for the good of the publick his own methods in management in raising them which I here desire may be read in his words . ’ |
| 2 | But at Tunis his own career was once again to take a new turn . |
| 3 | If he did , then he was aware of the situation of risk and , it is suggested , should be acquitted only if his failure to consider that she might not appreciate the nature of the act was reasonable , bearing in mind his own capacities . |
| 4 | As a result his own kingdom was divided among his brothers . |
| 5 | But in practice his own research had proved that IMF austerity programmes force Third World countries deeper into debt . |
| 6 | In the course of defending Creole against Shane 's objections , Chris actually begins to use Creole , distancing his own talk from that of Shane and putting into practice his own belief that " if you want them to know your culture you have to chat it " . |
| 7 | His experience had led him to become a teacher at training sessions , but that prevented him from putting into practice his own form of calculated waging of war . |
| 8 | mm , who was telling me that somebody 's four year old son has got a video and television in his bedroom his own video |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just given the barman his own show on the telly , ’ he explained , handing them around . |
| 10 | Each individual experiences his own problems . |
| 11 | She was a pretty young widow with a small son , and Thomas went to law to give the little boy his own surname . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm trying to , ’ Carrie said , so impatiently that she sounded , he thought , more like a cross girl his own age than his mother . |
| 13 | And as a child his own household included not only his father 's father but his mother 's grandmother , who spent most of her days hidden away ‘ in her own cabin ’ , but who would emerge on Sundays , always knitting a long stocking . |
| 14 | Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been . |
| 15 | And , a definition of the excellent guest , one who keeps promises given during the hospitality : as well as giving the lad his own Sallust , Johnson promised to create the introductions by which young MacAulay could enter university , and he kept his word , although the boy eventually chose not to avail himself of it . |
| 16 | Only for a moment did he pause and face the buffeting wind with an effort , and Paul recognised in that moment his own struggle with bales of wool before the same door . |
| 17 | His body stiffened ; there was a change in him , Robyn felt it , knew it and then he drew back and she saw in a fleeting moment his own look of self-disgust . |
| 18 | If the joint tenancy between the husband and wife has been severed , it will have been possible for the husband to mortgage his own share or settle it upon certain trusts . |
| 19 | He returned to Basle in April to find the hopes he had left there come to nothing : he was not to have a philosophy chair ( nor Rohde his own chair ) , and so he was obliged to remain , at least nominally , a philologist . |
| 20 | If he looked bored and cold and ready to quit in Swansea the other night , he 'll carry on running into places his own brain ca n't conceive until his genius leaves him . |
| 21 | The senator found it hard to hide the rancour his own son provoked in him . |
| 22 | In After Strange Gods his own view of savage and city is defined against that of Lawrence . |
| 23 | Phil said how much he enjoyed the day , and how breaking his own sales barriers allowed him to break the sound barrier . |
| 24 | ‘ I think he 's decided to handle things his own way . |
| 25 | But Chapman accepted that the short , stocky James was one of football 's great characters , an outstanding individualist who liked to do things his own way , like living it up at West End night clubs until the early hours . |
| 26 | This man is a Glenavon supporter who clearly fails to recognise or just simply ignores the trouble his own fans create . |
| 27 | well I 'm trying to think what he was called in it but his father his own father is in fact Doug Willis in the series who 's the father of the that girl Cody |
| 28 | Wilby was interviewed by an assistant his own age before being granted a £2,500 loan in the name of his father William , 49 . |
| 29 | Carson said that in theory his own place was within the flood basin , but there had never been any trouble as long as he 'd lived there ; places right on the towpath used to get flooded regularly when the tide was high . |
| 30 | A good lord brought to the role his own abilities and charisma which are now impossible to quantify but which were vital to his success . |