Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [pron] [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his own judgement at an appointment interview , or the courage to back a teacher in difficulty from whom others had withdrawn support .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 | As Creator He began it all ; as all-powerful He sustains it all ; as judge of the world He will complete it all and bring it to its consummation . |
| 6 | At the end of the last war he found himself some French creature and went to live with her , and so far as we know , he 's still in France . ’ |
| 7 | For many years he ran his own scaffolding company but the recession forced him out of business . |
| 8 | For 54 years he directed his own wine firm and , at around 80 years of age , launched the London Wine Exchange . |
| 9 | For years he sent his own children letters from Father |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 12 | I treasure the photographs I took of Jack , and following its refurbishment the instrument sounds as good as the day he fashioned it all those years ago — a credit to the man and fitting epitaph to his expertise . |
| 13 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |
| 14 | Frankie often joined his classmates in taunting them because of their poor homes or absent fathers , yet in his heart of hearts he envied them all . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I do n't mind dancing with girls when it 's for Jamie , though one time with one tall lassie he wanted us both to go outside so he could kiss her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In John Cowan 's Look at IFA Sales Performance he cited his own career as an example of rapid change . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In Sliwa 's last stunt he faked his own kidnapping and blamed it on off-duty police officers . |
| 21 | So when he was in Birmingham he bought me this house , which was going cheap , so that I could start a money-lending business here for him . |
| 22 | On the return journey he told her all about himself and he held up his left hand for her scrutiny . |
| 23 | At Southampton he made his own position devastatingly clear to the waiting journalists . |
| 24 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 25 | Of course he knew what those reasons were but he had never faced them . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I think at times he found his own handsomeness an awful burden : people just would n't let him alone . |
| 28 | In their achievement as adults — each imposing his order on an external world he made his own — they were united in triumph . |
| 29 | As they moved slowly between the rows of family portraits he explained who each member was . |
| 30 | 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 . |