Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cook eventually created his own fleet of floating palaces to carry the ‘ Cookii ’ down the Nile . |
| 2 | By thinking carefully about every detail , Geoff successfully created his own look . |
| 3 | Less than an hour later , at Bath , the strain of running the campaign as party chairman only to lose his own seat is painful to see in the face of Chris Patten , who bites his lip . |
| 4 | One boy had to ‘ solve ’ the problem straight away by suddenly producing his own gun , even though intellectually he recognised that the ‘ rule of the game ’ was that the passengers were unarmed . |
| 5 | John Lawton was master for this voyage , fresh from another ship but prudently bringing his own cook with him : it fell to Robert Titford to be first mate . |
| 6 | Still he said no more , merely eating his own rations then packing up ready to leave . |
| 7 | Both were heavy red-wine drinkers , always bloated , and each jealously guarded his own inferior status . |
| 8 | Many of his paintings are portraits of young women , perhaps reflecting his own position as an only son with seven sisters . |
| 9 | Composers are notoriously fickle when it comes to performing their own music , but with a few exceptions ( the first part of the Diptyque being the most obvious , where the innumerable pauses , rallentandos and general changes of speed , not to mention more than a few smudges and slips , have no basis in the printed score ) Messiaen not only fulfils his own written requirements , but does so with utter conviction and persuasiveness . |
| 10 | TV personality Leslie Crowther , 59 , has recovered from his car crash coma well enough to write his own name at Bristol 's Frenchay Hospital . |
| 11 | Was Darwin , then , mistaken in so relating his own science to Newton 's ? |
| 12 | Samuel 's father left the whole of the family property to another son , by his first wife , observing that Samuel ‘ had brains enough to work his own way ’ . |
| 13 | So writes his former coach , Charlie Francis . |
| 14 | But precisely in that act of consignment you may have committed an unconscious iconoclasm — for each of the above-mentioned artists at one time or another personally designed his own exhibition announcement . |
| 15 | This is one of the main reasons for the statement that an engineer can only do his own job well if he understands those of the other functions in his company . |
| 16 | He moaned about ‘ declining standards ’ and fondly recalled his own early days when each detective had to wear a dark striped , three-piece suit , an Anthony Eden homburg , and a watch chain at the correct angle . |
| 17 | He employed a gardener , had pipes laid to convey water to the Palace , put in chambers and hung the walls with leather gilt hangings , as well as employing a glacier , carpenter and bricklayer , and perhaps remembering his own schooling , he improved the school where his own children and the children of William Dalison were privately tutored . |
| 18 | It was the greatness of the ancient empire to which the Shah was attracted and with which he constantly compared his own achievements and ambitions . |
| 19 | Nicholas believed that ‘ No man can so much advance his own good and happiness in anything as endeavouring all that in him lies the good and welfare of others ; and who doth that daily doth perform the greatest good to himself as he can desire or wish for . ’ |
| 20 | At the Council of Arminium forty-five years later , there were four British bishops , one of whom apparently paid his own way — which would seem to indicate some degree of prosperity . |
| 21 | He seemed suddenly to hear his own call to wake up before it was too late . |
| 22 | Throughout he fiercely defended his own actions and was at pains to explain why he did not quit as many had said he should immediately after Black Wednesday . |
| 23 | In 1977 and 1978 , Indeed , Callaghan showed the ability to do more than survive , and emerged with a stature which perhaps surprised his many jaundiced critics in the party and press . |
| 24 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 25 | He helped the girl down very deliberately — well aware of Burkett 's calculating and approving regard — and as his fingers pressed on that tensile waist , as her free breasts brushed his over-layered chest , as her thighs carelessly kissed his own , he saw a break in the tight-capped cloud of his misery : but he could not reach out to it . |
| 26 | On 16 December Hoare returned to London , but was not well enough to leave his own house . |
| 27 | But he 's only buying his own |
| 28 | Surely Rob was old enough to manage his own affairs ! |
| 29 | Then , given these foundation techniques , he can go on and perhaps invent his own idiom and fulfil his ideals . |
| 30 | And he 's certainly big enough to draw his own crowd , just as large as Madness . |