Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hollywood was scared , not simply because of the threat to personal life and limb , but by the implications being meted out in the press which followed two distinct inferences : first that Polanski through his and his dead friends ' involvement with drugs had brought this tragedy upon his own house , and , second , that the ‘ new ’ Hollywood in general must accept some guilt through its current fascination with violence , drugs , sex and the lifestyle of what appeared — in the eyes of the establishment — to be a mortally sick section of society . |
| 2 | I could not stand another hour of the man himself or his bleating sheep of a wife , ’ she said tartly . |
| 3 | Every person is different and each has her or his optimal strategy for survival . |
| 4 | A typical ‘ theatre ’ student will therefore be one who can direct or discipline her or his individual skills towards a corporate aim . |
| 5 | But in his interview with The Independent , Mr Heseltine staked out the areas of difference between himself and his front-bench colleagues . |
| 6 | He made a deal in 1948 with the communist authorities that , if he could get passports for himself and his entire family to leave the country , he would make over his lands to the state . |
| 7 | Mr. Lowe ( Public Assistance Officer ) has had long talks with him and is convinced that the man is not normal ; he continually contradicts himself and his great joy is getting publicity . |
| 8 | At the same time , he could make lots of pocket-money for himself and his best friends Robin ( Williams ) and Julia ( Roberts ) and Dustin ( Hoffmann ) . |
| 9 | He also said that he was convinced that South African agents and others concerned with intelligence gathering were responsible for more than a dozen burglaries at the houses and offices of himself and his professional advisers . |
| 10 | Hawke himself and his remaining ships were a little further out , in a sea area 15 leagues [ 45 miles or 72 km ] off Ushant , ready to hasten to wherever they were needed . |
| 11 | For several years he has been a helper , and having decided to return to Birmingham where he had a distinguished career as a teacher of English , he resolved to give us the greater part of the library , collected over many years by himself and his late wife . |
| 12 | Sergeant Hanafin looked at the ground and said softly : ‘ That house Sonny is havin' built for himself and his future wife … ’ |
| 13 | It was de Kruif who in 1919 , as a young PhD just returned to the University of Michigan after two years at war , decided on a career that would make more money for himself and his future wife than what he called ‘ microbe hunting ’ . |
| 14 | A whispering campaign by it that there was a communist cell linked with his cabinet and involving himself and his personal secretary , Lady Falkender , had led him to call in Sir Michael Hanley , director-general of DI5 , in the summer of 1975 . |
| 15 | Rather as one might almost unconsciously adjust the position of a book to get the best light from a bedside lamp without ever really thinking of angles and directions , so must the tiger get himself into the most appropriate location vis-a-vis the three-dimensional world of scents known to both himself and his normal prey . |
| 16 | He has planted himself and his small company betimes ; indeed , apart from the few native people as I say , there is no one here to give us hindrance in our enterprise . |
| 17 | In the same interview with the two journalists , Wilson made the further point that he believed that a faction in DI5 had pursued a vendetta against himself and his close colleagues . |
| 18 | In marked contrast to his reserve about himself and his immediate family — his wife Helen and their three children — there is a wealth of information about his father . |
| 19 | Part was published in the 1939 work Prices and Wages in England from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Centuries , but there remains a mass of data and comments written by Beveridge himself and his many research assistants . |
| 20 | The RNI was devised as an aide-mémoire probably to serve the needs of the pope himself and his innermost circle of advisers . |
| 21 | There was the usual non-stop tirade as he praised America , himself and his latest promotion , in this case a fight card at the Mirage — not in the 17,000-seat outdoor stadium where Tyson ruled but in the 4,000-seat ballroom , with tickets selling for $25 instead of $1,000 . |
| 22 | Then , in 1989 , he caused a storm over Wild Orchid , refusing to promote the film when Playboy published pictures of himself and his on-screen/off-screen lover Carre Otis in explicit moments from the film . |
| 23 | It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " . |
| 24 | Terry Rourke sold me for enough dollars to buy himself and his true girlfriend a small business . ’ |
| 25 | Liam Hudson suggests that ‘ it may be that a single system of values embraces the individual 's perceptions of academic institutions ; his perception of himself and his demonstrable behaviour ’ , and goes on to say that , |
| 26 | Peter : Yes he has indeed he delivered , he did away with the autocue , he leaned forward , he did n't want a barrier between himself and his adoring party faithful they were adoring it was rather like the last night at the Prom , I can tell you . |
| 27 | With a loving wife safely ensconced in each corner of the building , a fact unknown to any save himself and his faithful servant Robert , all seemed set fair for John Killigrew to enjoy a life of quadruple wedded bliss . |
| 28 | Roh 's decision was also seen as marking a clear break in the increasingly tense relationship between himself and his designated heir , Kim Young Sam . |
| 29 | It is as if the Poet were concentrating so strongly on giving an adequate image of the Friend that he ceases to think about himself and his own unworthiness by comparison . |
| 30 | In Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exporters ) Ltd v Guinle [ 1978 ] 3 WLR 116 whilst managing director of the plaintiffs and without their knowledge or consent , the defendant placed orders for the benefit of himself and his own company with the plaintiffs ' suppliers . |