Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I had my dreams , like all young girls , of a tall , dark and handsome man coming striding over the fell one day to claim me as his own . |
| 2 | Nor did the Flemings feel that he was really supporting them ; he had appeared to be using them for his own ends . |
| 3 | Whereas Flynn was at the other end of the scale , for , despite his external charm , he really seemed to care little about anybody 's well-being — possibly because he cared nothing for his own . |
| 4 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 5 | ‘ In the meantime , Malachi here has kindly offered to drive me in his own trap anywhere I wish to go . ’ |
| 6 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 7 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
| 8 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 9 | He contradicted himself within his own question by saying that we have no constitutional ideas and then identifying an area on which we are currently consulting with a view to making constitutional changes . |
| 10 | Wexford let himself into his own house and the dog Clytemnestra galloped to meet him . |
| 11 | By understanding something of his own behaviour as self-defeating ( an understanding that was achieved without loss of face since explicit comments were avoided ) , and respecting the feelings behind the pupil 's refusal to work , the teacher could stop re-enacting and reinforcing the pupil 's refusal to work , the could relax his pressure and abandon his preconceived ideas about Dave . |
| 12 | Something about him was beginning to needle her , challenging her to meet him on his own terms . |
| 13 | ( Jones , as everyone would have expected , welcomed his vanquished opponent on board with great courtesy , and invited him to his own wrecked cabin for a glass of wine . ) |
| 14 | I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own . |
| 15 | We turned round and have managed to encourage him of his own volition to rejoin the others to make sure that all six enter the Pentland Firth and have a free passage out into the Atlantic . ’ |
| 16 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 17 | Seb always felt vaguely uncomfortable when Melody caught him on his own . |
| 18 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |
| 19 | He had rescued her in his own way , he had swept away the bitterness and the hurt , but he had added a hurt of his own too . |
| 20 | Purcell thought highly enough of this little improvement to write it into his own song-book as an emendation : so it is scarcely conceivable that he would have allowed the original , unimproved version to go into a score being copied under his own supervision for a revival — especially given that the effect of the improvement itself was theatrical rather than primarily musical . |
| 21 | She raised her hand and stroked his face , and he caught it with his own , turning it over so that it was palm up , and kissing it . |
| 22 | Ergotimos had looked to a metal model ( a slightly later example is the superb huge bronze from Vix , fig. 58 ) , but he has rethought it in his own medium . |
| 23 | Stone also wrote the film , basing it on his own experiences as a volunteer infantryman in the 25th Infantry ( ‘ Tropic Lightning ’ ) Division . |
| 24 | Yet the new role of emperor was held in control by Charles who used it for his own ends , which were often of the highest order and extended far beyond mere materialism . |
| 25 | Searle was a rogue and used it for his own purposes . |
| 26 | The taxi bill arose after he opened an account for Nalgo with Mersey Cabs without authorisation and used it for his own personal use as well as official business . |
| 27 | Then he tried it on his own |
| 28 | He found it amongst his own but he does n't have a V A C |
| 29 | To put it another way , he was aware of the idea of divided consciousness , much discussed in his day , and here and elsewhere he can be seen applying it to his own actions . |
| 30 | God created us for His own purposes , gave us free will to decide between good and evil , but retained unto Himself the ultimate decisions about the creation of life . |