Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet that high broad forehead was his , the little tilted nose was his , his the pointed — although in her case , flat — ears , and in her huge eyes he saw his own little ones . |
| 2 | This courage was to later re-emerge when , as an adviser , he fought to bring about educational change and improved resources , or , when against opposition he backed his own judgement at an appointment interview , or the courage to back a teacher in difficulty from whom others had withdrawn support . |
| 3 | In later years , when he was in the position of having to counsel others he found that these doubts were quite common , and in answering their doubts he answered his own as well ! |
| 4 | In May he prepared his own aircraft for flight from the local farm . |
| 5 | For many years he ran his own scaffolding company but the recession forced him out of business . |
| 6 | For 54 years he directed his own wine firm and , at around 80 years of age , launched the London Wine Exchange . |
| 7 | For years he sent his own children letters from Father |
| 8 | With a funny crooked smile he undid his own buttons , then gently pressed her face against his bared chest , his palms warm and hard against her head . |
| 9 | Far from calling himself a god he admits his own inadequacies — he can not rebuild the dome , he can not claim to have fed on honey-dew and drunk the Milk of paradise . |
| 10 | As a manager he remains his own greatest fan and although his playing days are over , he was probably the most creative player on Rangers ' books : a genius in search of a mirror . |
| 11 | In John Cowan 's Look at IFA Sales Performance he cited his own career as an example of rapid change . |
| 12 | Later in life he compared his own feelings at the two ordinations to be a deacon and a priest and his later consecration to be a bishop . |
| 13 | In Sliwa 's last stunt he faked his own kidnapping and blamed it on off-duty police officers . |
| 14 | At Southampton he made his own position devastatingly clear to the waiting journalists . |
| 15 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 16 | Even on the field he had his own personal trademark — flapping shirt sleeves and long , baggy shorts , which served both as a landmark for his colleagues and to help keep out the cold he felt so badly . |
| 17 | I think at times he found his own handsomeness an awful burden : people just would n't let him alone . |
| 18 | In their achievement as adults — each imposing his order on an external world he made his own — they were united in triumph . |
| 19 | The weaker often needs to copy the stronger — for every one of her foreign bombing campaigns conducted with supreme arrogance and ruthless certainty he had his own dirty little war on distant barren islands , his own vicious murders on the Rock . |
| 20 | On the one hand he saw his own suspicions mirrored in the Bishop 's eyes , on the other Wishart realised that such an interview might alienate the French and cause more trouble than it was worth . |
| 21 | After leaving Congress he established his own private law practice , but did not cut his political ties . |
| 22 | No doubt there were many contributory external or psychological factors in what was happening to the way he perceived his own personality . |
| 23 | The same secretive manner , the way he considered his own wishes to be paramount , the odd furtive way he stared at her when he thought she was not aware of it . |
| 24 | This is both for the purposes of common courtesy but also as it may have an important bearing on the way he discharges his own continuing professional responsibilities . |
| 25 | In its imagery it recalls his own Deploratio virginitatis male amissae of long ago : |
| 26 | Those cropped military curls , that monumental neck and straight nose , would have looked well in a bronze helmet ; no doubt he recognised his own kind , and was at home with them . |
| 27 | From the balcony he thanked his many friends for their support , and the Lord God for showing the jury his divine wisdom . |
| 28 | In 1626 he reported to the Commons on the outcome of the York House conference , at which George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , had declared his support for Arminianism ; and when he delivered one of the Commons charges against Buckingham in the Lords he added his own gloss that he was ‘ the principal patron of a semi-pelagian , semi-popish faction , dangerous to church and state , lately set on foot among us . ’ |
| 29 | In The Facts he examines his own vexed state with reference to the vexed question of whether it is better to make things up , and to distort them , and by contemplating his earlier re-invention of the time-honoured dualistic account of literature and human nature . |
| 30 | STAN FLASHMAN went crazy again yesterday — but this time he attacked his own Barnet players , branding them ‘ greedy bastards ’ . |