Example sentences of "[to-vb] his own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had the ability of good actors or teachers to communicate his own enthusiasm repeatedly , especially for his special subject , the history of architecture . |
| 2 | The Guv'nor used to brew his own beer in those days as most people did . ’ |
| 3 | With his opening salvos the anti-pluralist has , if anything , merely forced his opponent to modify his own position somewhat , not to abandon it . |
| 4 | He was expected to practise for several hours a day , but was entrusted to supervise his own timetable . |
| 5 | He has had to struggle with nature ; compete with the most brilliant men and women of his generation ; labour to outstrip his own achievements . |
| 6 | Would he himself ever know with certainty , be able to postulate his own thoughts as rationally ? |
| 7 | It was all he could do to spell his own name . |
| 8 | SANKUKAI Some years after Tani established his style , history repeated itself and his senior student , Yoshinao Nanbu , left him to found his own school , developed from shukokai , called ‘ sankukai ’ . |
| 9 | Joachim eventually broke away from the Cistercians and retired to a lonely spot in Calabria where disciples gathered around him and he was given papal permission to found his own congregation . |
| 10 | As premier earl , Harold was able to secure his own election to the throne , but was forced to defend it almost immediately against Scandinavian and Norman claimants . |
| 11 | The one certainty is that he has consistently sought to secure his own position , mostly by presenting himself as a sensible centrist between the extremes to his right and left . |
| 12 | Fearful that this might well be his last chance to secure his own future , he persisted , ‘ Do n't be afraid to strike out , Esther . |
| 13 | Even ‘ theoretical modernist ’ Sigmund Freud used friends of Hartel to secure his own career promotion . |
| 14 | So I used to encourage his own poetry , and his ideas for poetic themes , even when I knew they were poor or did not interest me . |
| 15 | Wainwright 's books must continue to be available to all who are prepared to accept his own work , as he wrote it , and as the product of his own generation ( and preferably bearing the cherished stamp of the Westmorland Gazette ) . |
| 16 | He found it difficult to accept his own failings . |
| 17 | This sequence of events is already prefigured in a claim made by Schiller that he used to conceive his own poetry in and through a " musical mood " . |
| 18 | In the course of a short time the farmer was sufficiently restored to relate his own story , as already recited , and in gratitude for his miraculous escape ordered a silver collar to be made for his friendly protector , as a perpetual remembrance of the transaction . |
| 19 | Part of his motive in undertaking to edit the Criterion had been to establish his own position within metropolitan culture and , since he had been a bank employee when he had begun the paper seventeen years before , in this he had triumphantly succeeded . |
| 20 | He left Macmillan in 1989 to establish his own consultancy and training practice , specialising in electronic information media . |
| 21 | However , it is all to easy for a person to establish his own business or become self-employed , however inadequately trained or qualified . |
| 22 | If Let Us Compare Mytholoqies marks the awakening of his poetic consciousness when the city of Montreal ( and all that was in it , not excluding its female charms ) ‘ began to jump at me , ’ The Spice-Box Of Earth marks the heightening of his Jewish consciousness which he encountered in young adulthood , as a free agent abroad in the world , having to establish his own identity at a time when his own Tradition , and his position in it , began likewise to jump at him . |
| 23 | Pearse , the former Wallaby flanker , intends to establish his own sports marketing company and the NSWRU is set to be his first client . |
| 24 | Savory Milln should have been aware that Mr Ferriday would try and cover his liabilities from whatever funds he had access to , yet it had made no inquiries as to the source of the £13.5m or how Mr Ferriday had managed to meet his own underwriting obligations . |
| 25 | But first , he had to meet his own kind . |
| 26 | Not only does this represent a great deal of voluntary work , but it also shows how the writer has taken elements from Roald Dahl 's The enormous crocodile , remodelling the book to meet his own needs . |
| 27 | Gustavus did not wait to reduce Ingolstadt but rode off to meet his own death at Lützen . |
| 28 | Patrick heard the beat of a familiar engine and went out to meet his own Mascot Missile coming up the drive . |
| 29 | Obviously it was no more sensible for a politician to compromise his own position at court by allowing enemies to point to a connection between his politics . |
| 30 | On 29th May 1176 Frederick was defeated at the battle of Lagnano because Henry the Lion , continually striving to increase his own power , had deserted the imperial cause at the last minute . |