Example sentences of "[vb pp] his [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He had won his own victory . |
2 | Now that Mr Major has won his own mandate , it is important to understand that , though the Conservative Party has sometimes been successful because it has stolen the Labour Party 's clothes , this is not the reason for its success on this occasion . |
3 | certainly has earned his few quid tonight , about to take this goal kick , we 're inside the final minute of what has been a very good first half for the third division side , one goal each . |
4 | On the negative side , as political opponents are only too ready to point out , Chevenement has installed his own men in key positions . |
5 | His evidence was also remarkable for his insistence that Kesselring had exaggerated his own importance as Officer Commanding Troops in Italy , and was therefore not in fact responsible for the atrocities of which he stood accused . |
6 | They had arranged a tenant but been let down , and Signor Fixit had promised to go and sit in their villa , having let his own house . |
7 | McLeish had rung his own flat to collect messages ; he could see Catherine just waking , and waved to her to indicate that he was on the phone . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | In addition , he has pursued his own passion for the painted interior decoration of this particular kind and scale of East Anglian yeoman farmhouse — a type of house that , only a few years ago , was hardly considered worthy of notice , so complete was the obsession of historians with work by named architects . |
10 | During that time , he has pursued his own path , favouring lyrical abstraction at the expense of changing fashion . |
11 | Bush should have trusted his own misgivings about attending the dinner , confessing he knew it would be ‘ something sorrowful and sad ’ . |
12 | Mick has slashed his own earnings from the Autocap components business to just £9,000 a year . |
13 | It was one thing to have turned his own country into an ‘ underdeveloping ’ society , but to seek out the company of the other basket-cases of the world economy was to add gratuitous insult to already grave injury in the minds of most Romanians . |
14 | A man who had turned his own son out of the house was not exactly comfortable as a father-in-law . |
15 | He seemed to have exceeded his own limits . |
16 | I 'm not the only one to notice this ; Geoff Birtles has related his own experiences with fairy-story history in the recent Gogarth guide . |
17 | They tried to make Jim had done his own coach , the one that took us over |
18 | He had weakened his own side by subtracting two thousand men . |
19 | The screenplay is by John Sayles : until now Forsyth has always written his own films . |
20 | In Stan Davies , who has written his own booklet on the wildlife of the River Exe , we had an excellent guide . |
21 | But the collaboration was a predictable failure , and Coleridge , having written his own canto ‘ at full finger-speed ’ , found Wordsworth seated before a nearly blank sheet of paper with a look of ‘ humorous despondency ’ on his face.7sup5 ; A second attempt at joint composition followed almost at once , in the course of another tour , and although the two friends were no more successful than before at direct collaboration , a new and remarkable poem began to emerge none the less . |
22 | Dons president John Fashanu has suffered his own autumnus horribilis , and his recovery from a hip injury has n't come a moment too soon for manager Joe Kinnear . |
23 | AN eccentric millionaire has built his own UFO landing pad . |
24 | But first he had built his own power station at Lots Road in Chelsea , and another at Neasden , and electrified the District Line . |
25 | Having answered his own question of whether he would make the cut , he proved himself capable of denying the one that he was a one-major wonder . |
26 | Huy was still not sure how he would have answered his own question . |
27 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
28 | He did n't have a house here , he did n't have a coach , he 'd shaped his own board . |
29 | Anthony Perkins , the star of Psycho , had grown his own cannabis back home in Los Angeles and had thought to avoid being busted by customs by posting it to the hotel in Wales where he was due to stay in June 1989 . |
30 | He was thought to have hampered his own cause through the manner of his testimony , especially his attempted defence of his membership of a country club with a notorious reputation for discrimination against blacks and Jews . |