Example sentences of "[subord] his own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For he was an eagle in flight to the North where his own kind were and no raven nor man would stop him now . |
| 2 | Fardine took us to the edge of his terrace , where his own pigeons were kept in a large coop . |
| 3 | He was educated at Wallingford Grammar School , on the Thames , where his own ability was aroused by a ‘ whizz-kid ’ music teacher . |
| 4 | At a time when English officialdom has been worrying about the fact that some among their top youngsters are playing more golf than is good for them , Stevely has had the same feelings where his own pupils are concerned . |
| 5 | Where an officer wants to see what a new or unconsented discharge consists of , therefore , or where his own judgment suggests that a discharge may be polluting , he turns to his sample bucket , which offers the ultimate means for practical purposes of establishing the kind and degree of pollution . |
| 6 | It is a debate which presumably would have appealed to Howard although his own views seem to have been that they are equally important . |
| 7 | He seldom missed a match through injury , and he was versatile enough to play on either wing equally effectively , although his own preference was for outside-right . |
| 8 | But he saw Baldwin on the Sunday morning and told him that he had no doubt that Curzon would be chosen , although his own turn would come in due course . |
| 9 | Among other things it is hoped that this will eliminate some of the problems which Noah clearly believes led to their defeat by Switzerland — although his own choice of an outdoor clay court for the match against Jakob Hlasek and Marc Rosset , did not help either . |
| 10 | Dr Neil — she could not think of him as Neil — was careful to hold her in such a way that she felt no restraint , although his own self-control was slowly beginning to slip . |
| 11 | Some things , then , were more reliable than his own twin likenesses in the school photograph . |
| 12 | The petition must state : ( i ) the debtor 's name , address and occupation ( if any ) ; ( ii ) the name in which the debtor carried on business if other than his own name and if the business is carried on jointly with others ; ( iii ) the nature and address of the debtor 's business ; ( iv ) the name in which the debtor carried on business when the debt was incurred ; ( v ) the address at which the debtor resided or carried on business at or after that time and the nature of that business . |
| 13 | The freedoms threatened by the fatwa went far beyond his own freedom and the principles involved were greater than his own life or death . |
| 14 | — There is surely more to concern a Kha-Khan than his own interests . ’ |
| 15 | It appears that he had a recurring dream in which he was told , " Socrates , be an artist " , a command which he ignored at first , supposing that nothing could be a higher " art " than his own philosophizing , but eventually complied with by writing some poetry while waiting for death in prison . |
| 16 | This was even harder to bear than his own self-criticism . |
| 17 | Alexei thought that if the phrasing of the observation suggested that Burun was anything other than his own master , it was surely an accident . |
| 18 | The baby who is picked up or fed whenever he cries soon becomes a veritable tyrant , and gives his mother no peace when awake ; while , on the other hand , the infant who is fed regularly , put to sleep , and played with at definite times soon finds that appeals bring no response , and so learns that most useful of all lessons , self-control , and the recognition of an authority other than his own wishes . |
| 19 | He had neither the patience nor method to understand properly how they worked and he would not bow to any instruction other than his own perusal of certain manuals and textbooks . |
| 20 | Knowing the personal satisfaction of keeping body and mind wholly alert and fit , obeying no other master than his own conscience . |
| 21 | Furthermore , by broadening his own identity from leader of the London dissidents to leader of the whole French Resistance , internal as well as external , he remained , in a sense , bigger than his own organization . |
| 22 | But the cruellest experiences the victim 's pain however great as less than his own enhancement of power however small , so that the suffering of a victim who is being crippled for life may be deliberately empathized by the torturer , but as less than his own titillation , which he may have forgotten by the time he goes home to lunch . |
| 23 | As a result , Charles is closer to his grandmother in many ways than his own mother . |
| 24 | Pretty soon the law would know more about Mahoney than his own mother . |
| 25 | He often caught himself liking her better than his own girl-friend . |
| 26 | When Mr Major learned the result , he acted as if he had seen Chelsea win the Cup rather than his own MPs come so close to humiliating him . |
| 27 | These tended to portray him as being concerned with little more than his own power . |
| 28 | Besides the particular passions or impulses directed at objects other than pleasure , a human being has ; more general desire that he should enjoy as much pleasure or happiness as possible , during his life as a whole , which is as much as to say , a desire that the totality of his impulse ; directed at objects other than his own pleasure should receive as much satisfaction as possible . |
| 29 | He proved rather better at handling animals than his own family , who scattered in all directions — his wife to Israel , his younger son to America , and Wim to England . |
| 30 | But the cruellest experiences the victim 's pain however great as less than his own enhancement of power however small , so that the suffering of a victim who is being crippled for life may be deliberately empathized by the torturer , but as less than his own titillation , which he may have forgotten by the time he goes home to lunch . |