Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He played with Louis Armstrong 's All Stars at the end of the 50s and led his own band at Eddie Condon 's in New York in the mid-60s . |
| 2 | He had forgotten this unofficial war and damned his own foolhardiness at not taking the matter into account . |
| 3 | He wanted footballers to have a respectable place in society , breaking away from their traditional cloth-cap image , and expected his own players to adopt respectable standards of dress and behaviour . |
| 4 | But some of the branches apparently just like pinned it up , been quite happy to pin up the returned fax and then each consultant just gone and read his own bit . |
| 5 | Then he caught Taheb 's eye and lowered his own with a slight cough . |
| 6 | He advertised his own brand of cigarettes and sold his own brand of whisky . |
| 7 | In 1948 he moved to the ancient house of Daneway , near Sapperton , where he ground his own flour , baked his own bread and made his own paper on which to print his poems on his own press . |
| 8 | After eight years practising and perfecting he sent off for a plan and made his own Appalachian dulcimer — and it was better than the one he was given . |
| 9 | Corbett closed his eyes and made his own prayer , sending it up into the void . |
| 10 | As Simon Halliday is a fine footballer and made his own contribution with a try you can say that it was almost a perfect backline . |
| 11 | A year before his father avowed his change in faith , Cecil had journeyed to Rome and made his own profession of Catholicism . |
| 12 | Prime Minister Nicholas Brathwaite took over responsibility for Planning from Brizan and passed his own Information portfolio to Carlyle Glean , the Minister of Education , Culture , Youth Affairs and Sport . |
| 13 | At Wood 's request , he also substantially revised the RIC manual , first issued in 1866 , and produced his own The Irish Constable 's Guide , which was to become the Irish policeman 's Bible . |
| 14 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 15 | At the end of Koch 's discourse McFadyean took the floor , disagreed with the eminent doctor , and described his own research in which he was certain that infected cows ' milk was responsible for tuberculosis in young children . |
| 16 | He recalled the uncanny way in which the wizard 's sword curved up and caught his own blade with a shock that jerked it out of his grip . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Bob caught her by the shoulder and used his own to wipe her face , while John turned on the woman and let loose a volley of dismissive French . |
| 19 | Scott reached up and massaged his own shoulders as best he could . |
| 20 | The DDI pursed his lips and pursued his own thoughts . |
| 21 | Gripes aside , though , ‘ Broken ’ shows all the signs that Trent Reznor has shaken off the shackles of influences and found his own suitably idiosyncratic niche . |
| 22 | ‘ He had obtained little knowledge from books , but he had been an original observer , and had reflected much on all he had observed , and drew his own conclusions . |
| 23 | Although Sleep became principal dancer of the Royal Ballet , he decided to diversify because of his height and created his own TV series The Hot Shoe Show in the early 1980s . |
| 24 | A wealthy and handsome ‘ man of many parts ’ , he owned considerable property in Funchal and designed his own town house ( the large house , with a tower , which the Madeira Wine Institute now occupies ) and his favourite country residence , Quinta do Jardim da Serra , where he built his own mausoleum and was buried . |
| 25 | He topped up our glasses and filled his own . |
| 26 | Jonathan looked on appreciatively and filled his own glass with orange juice . |
| 27 | MICHAEL Heseltine bought off a Conservative revolt and salvaged his own political career yesterday with a reprieve of 12 pits threatened with closure . |
| 28 | Scathach led the way to the gate , pulled it down again and mounted his own horse . |
| 29 | He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part . |
| 30 | Edward , alone in his room in the long wastes of those summer days , looked back into the exercise books and noted his own absence . |