Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Albanian leader could express his shock at the gangsterish methods of Gheorghiu-Dej in the late 1940s without for one moment admitting to himself , let alone to his readers , that he was even remotely hypocritical given his own tendency to resort to rubbing out rivals personally ( including shooting his prime minister and long-term comrade-in-arms , Mehmet Shehu , in 1981 ) . |
| 2 | The tribunals are meant to provide simple informal justice in an atmosphere in which the ordinary man feels he is at home … an atmosphere which does not shut out the ordinary man so that he is prepared to conduct his own case before them with a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 3 | Wainwright 's books must continue to be available to all who are prepared to accept his own work , as he wrote it , and as the product of his own generation ( and preferably bearing the cherished stamp of the Westmorland Gazette ) . |
| 4 | A syntactically deviant sentence can be interpreted only by reference to a non-deviant sentence : a speaker , in other words , is not free to create his own grammar . |
| 5 | The independent contractor is one who has agreed to do a piece of work , but is to be left free to choose his own method of doing it . |
| 6 | And also free to express his own visual experiences , in a suitable medium , ii , a way understandable to the child . |
| 7 | Training was most effective where the farmer was able and willing to identify his own training needs . |
| 8 | They leave him free to publish his own report . |
| 9 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 10 | ‘ It must be , ’ she laughed , ‘ if he 's suddenly prepared to run his own errands ! ’ |
| 11 | He would be free to pursue his own work , but must make himself available to students of composition . |
| 12 | This he accepted in 1862 and remained there for the rest of his life , being left free to pursue his own research . |
| 13 | The duke was virtually forced into some sort of counter-offensive to protect his own interests , and his seizure of prince Edward at the end of April could even be justified , although Mancini does not say so , as a return to Edward IV 's original wishes . |
| 14 | The duke was virtually forced into some sort of counter-offensive to protect his own interests , and his seizure of prince Edward at the end of April could even be justified , although Mancini does not say so , as a return to Edward IV 's original wishes . |
| 15 | I think it is sensible to separate his many librettos into categories — not for the sake of ultimate classification , but because it helps to understand the nature of the finished works , in their full musical dress . |
| 16 | Except for Robin , who had a slight talent for painting , they were plodders , who would never make a mark on the world ; and even Robin was too unsteady to forge his own way . |
| 17 | The Prodigal Son becomes the pattern for us all ; he became so hungry that he was prepared to swallow his own pride . |
| 18 | Was the smith free to produce his own designs ? |
| 19 | And I was impressed that a Harley Street gynaecologist was prepared to boil his own kettle . |
| 20 | The Interfax news agency quoted Mr Sergei Filatov , deputy Speaker , as saying the Congress of People 's Deputies was ready to debate revoking Mr Yeltsin 's right to choose his own government , to remove him as Prime Minister and to choose the Cabinet itself . |
| 21 | He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way . |
| 22 | Megill himself , in his discussion of Derrida , as in the whole of his book , combines detailed knowledge of the texts , sympathetic treatment of his subject , and an ultimate detachment from it , so that it is not easy to discern his own attitudes . |
| 23 | The we means ‘ someone in my group ’ , and when a Zuwayi used we in this sense , the reference group was small and was likely to include his own ancestors and relatives , men he could name in a line of descent which included both speaker and audience , which explained the existence and identity of each person , and provided them with a character and loyalties . |
| 24 | He zipped it up again , and I imagined him going to sit on a black plastic jerry-can to drink his own tea and have a smoke . |
| 25 | The child 's willingness to talk about his family and his home , however , will be much more likely to reflect his own individual circumstance . |
| 26 | Peter takes little comfort from the fact that the exploration is now centred in an area north of the Doolough Valley , so that any future mining is likely to leave his own watershed unaffected . |
| 27 | GOJU-KAI A one-time student of goju , Gogen Yamaguchi , broke away from goju-ryu to form his own style of goju-kai . |
| 28 | He prowled over to the far side of the kitchen , then slammed down a couple of plates , as if he were suddenly finding it very hard to control his own temper . |
| 29 | Each child is likely to have his own particular patterns , but it 's not necessary , or desirable , or possible , to analyse each child 's errors as thoroughly as these examples do . |
| 30 | If there was anything she could n't cope with herself she would ask Mossy Rooney , a man of such silence and discretion that he found it hard to reveal his own name in case it might incriminate someone . |