Example sentences of "[verb] his own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had the ability of good actors or teachers to communicate his own enthusiasm repeatedly , especially for his special subject , the history of architecture . |
| 2 | The Guv'nor used to brew his own beer in those days as most people did . ’ |
| 3 | With his opening salvos the anti-pluralist has , if anything , merely forced his opponent to modify his own position somewhat , not to abandon it . |
| 4 | In 1915 the New South Wales Swimming Association invited Duke Kahanamoku to the Domain Baths in Sydney where he beat his own world record for the 100 yards with a time of 53.8 seconds . |
| 5 | DEAN Gould beat his own world record in Felixstowe , Suffolk yesterday — flipping 296 new 10p pences from his arm to his hand . |
| 6 | As his angry response to such blatant prejudice , Jarman scratches his own message into thick paint dragged over the sensational tabloid headlines which he has silkscreened onto his canvases . |
| 7 | He was expected to practise for several hours a day , but was entrusted to supervise his own timetable . |
| 8 | He has had to struggle with nature ; compete with the most brilliant men and women of his generation ; labour to outstrip his own achievements . |
| 9 | Between denying Agnes 's guesswork and denying his own responsibility , as she had intended . |
| 10 | He had won his own victory . |
| 11 | Now that Mr Major has won his own mandate , it is important to understand that , though the Conservative Party has sometimes been successful because it has stolen the Labour Party 's clothes , this is not the reason for its success on this occasion . |
| 12 | Much in the Bible exists to expose man 's tendency to make religion suit his own pleasure , or ( as might be said ) match what he finds " helpful " . |
| 13 | The general thought he could do better , and for a time considered launching his own party . |
| 14 | On 21 February 1992 , he proposed his own bill to provide for a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 15 | The old man proposed his own house , the largest in Arghuri . |
| 16 | Senior government officials confirmed that Gaviria was assembling his own team to ensure that the process of gathering evidence against and prosecuting the drug barons went smoothly . |
| 17 | He jerked his own head away almost as fast , galvanized by the shock of embarrassment . |
| 18 | Would he himself ever know with certainty , be able to postulate his own thoughts as rationally ? |
| 19 | It was one way of justifying his own self-image as an ‘ unfortunate ’ and at the same time masochistically drawing attention to it . |
| 20 | Before opening his own gallery in the late 1980s , the Teheran-born Baghoomian was known to have operated a cash business in a SoHo basement where artists desperate for money could bring their works . |
| 21 | Sharp , clean minimal arts in such a rough space will make an interesting contrast and it launches an exhibition programme by the imaginative Jopling , who will be looking for unusual spaces for showing art as a solution to the uncertainties , expenses and predictability of opening his own gallery . |
| 22 | Opening his own door , he thought how great , how truly fantastic it was that there should be something into which they need not yet rush . |
| 23 | During the war he joined the Police force and then worked at Telfers Pie Factory before opening his own business — the Wimbledon Health Food Stores , with his wife , Joan . |
| 24 | At the time , the teenaged Bowie and Roxy Music fan dreamt of getting out of the rain and opening his own record shop . |
| 25 | It was all he could do to spell his own name . |
| 26 | In this respect , the learner exercises his own initiative to ensure the proper supply of comprehensible input . |
| 27 | Taking what one commentator called " the biggest gamble ever taken by any prime minister or president " , de Klerk promised his own resignation and that of his government if the referendum showed a " no " majority . |
| 28 | Magnus Fehn , 13 , was representing his own creation , the New Democracy Party , which plans to fleece the rich and tax the Queen . |
| 29 | But we saved the Queen 's fair fame , and to Rudolf himself the fatal stroke came as a relief from a choice too difficult : on the one side lay what impaired his own honour , on the other what threatened hers . |
| 30 | On Hird 's death 10 years later , Cutts took over the list , and demonstrated his own publishing flair with his first best-seller , A J Russell 's For Sinners Only . |