Example sentences of "[vb past] his own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | DEAN Gould beat his own world record in Felixstowe , Suffolk yesterday — flipping 296 new 10p pences from his arm to his hand . |
| 3 | On 21 February 1992 , he proposed his own bill to provide for a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 4 | The old man proposed his own house , the largest in Arghuri . |
| 5 | He jerked his own head away almost as fast , galvanized by the shock of embarrassment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman defeated his own argument by saying that 0898 numbers are barred in the House in order to stop hon. Members exploiting them . |
| 10 | He was still visibly shaken when he entered his own room where , going to the window , he placed both hands on the sill and bowed his head . |
| 11 | He described his own experiences in a public article ( Ecumenical Review , I ( 1949 ) , 388–92 ) . |
| 12 | Using this analogy Jesus described his own mission in terms of establishing a Kingdom . |
| 13 | He really was , at that moment , one for whom there were ‘ two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings , myself and my Creator ’ , as Newman described his own experience . |
| 14 | In A Second Beacon Fired by Scintilla ( 1652 ) he described his own apprenticeship and career , lamented the hardship caused to stationers by the civil war , and now argued that the availability of popish and heretical works showed that the press was too free . |
| 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 | Earlier Kevin McNamara , Labour 's shadow Northern Ireland Secretary , described his own meeting on Ulster policy as ‘ overshadowed by a man coming to gloat at the scene of one the gravest blows to democracy carried out in these islands : the bombing of the Conservative Party conference ’ . |
| 17 | The Hittite king Hattusili I , who ruled from about 1650 BC onwards , described his own march on northern Syria in these terms : |
| 18 | Dalton privately described his own reaction as " tepid " . |
| 19 | He also analysed his own dreams and from these studies developed his theories . |
| 20 | For instance , Malam Yaroh of Zinder in Niger maintained his own agents on the north African coast in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 21 | No doubt the President was , as his right-wing critics charged , jealous of the CEDA leader , Gil Robles , whose swift rise to prominence underlined his own failure to lead Spanish Catholics into the Republican camp . |
| 22 | Yesterday , Jack Dromey , national officer of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said it underlined his own belief that ‘ ministers and DML managers conspired behind Rosyth 's back to move to one dockyard by the year 2000 . |
| 23 | Voysey 's interiors were almost puritanically plain and , like his hero Morris , he designed his own furniture . |
| 24 | He designed his own pair of boots and test-walked them in the desert . |
| 25 | er and erm he he he designed his own thing what what |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | Afshar drew his own conclusions from this . |
| 29 | Lord John 's leading rescuer , the Life Guards Captain , drew his own sword and stood above his lordship . |
| 30 | 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 . |