Example sentences of "[verb] taken his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-nine of the prisoners have already died , Pilot Mohammed El Shamey has lost his mind , one has taken his own life . |
| 2 | ‘ He has taken his own life in a dramatic gesture which some have described as futile . ’ |
| 3 | After an eight month investigation , Gloucestershire police came to the conclusion that he 'd taken his own life . |
| 4 | Hence the alarmed thought on the part of many that he might have taken his own life . |
| 5 | Not , in other words , the kind of man who would have taken his own life within hours of writing that letter to ‘ Liz ’ . |
| 6 | Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life . |
| 7 | This may partly account for the secrecy and guilt that surrounds the family if their relative is understood to have taken his own life . |
| 8 | Time in the monastery on the Via Siciliana-where Hamilton seems to have taken his own vow of silence . |
| 9 | The third year student , known to his friends simply as Donm Lau is thought to have taken his own life just days from his final exams in modern history . |
| 10 | Saad had taken his own life the night the news had gone round that he 'd been caught sleeping with a travelling shepherd . |
| 11 | If he had taken his own rule seriously , he would have found out that DRG has a very modest self-service canteen at its Bristol head office . |
| 12 | Then more words about his own father who had taken his own life , then retracting words , self-hating words , words weaving webs around his own egotism , then words that made no sense to the listener , words he himself was unaware of uttering as the tears wiped out reason . |
| 13 | ‘ It is plain that all the indications were that Monsieur Gebrec had taken his own life … it was only on account of my promise to his mother … ’ |
| 14 | He fought for a while , hence the strands of cord found under the finger nails , but he was murdered and left there to hang so others would think he had taken his own life . ’ |
| 15 | When you say a wife , you mean Mrs there was n't any suggestion that Lawrence had taken his own wife ? |