Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exploiting Boniface 's injudicious move , Edward sought to rekindle popular support for his Scottish campaign by a debate in parliament on his and the papal claims , in the course of which he employed no little historical research to justify his own rights , to refute the pope 's , and to persuade the public of all this . |
| 2 | My right hon. Friend makes his own point . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend argues his own case very well . |
| 4 | If that is the case , would it not have been better for the hon. Gentleman to keep his own counsel when he stated publicly that we were bound to fail in our negotiations ? |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman defeated his own argument by saying that 0898 numbers are barred in the House in order to stop hon. Members exploiting them . |
| 6 | At length she said with a devious manner to match his own , ‘ And I 'm astonished that the thought had not occurred to you . |
| 7 | The old man proposed his own house , the largest in Arghuri . |
| 8 | His pedigree may be long , but nevertheless here he is on piano and electronic keyboards leading his own band for the first time on disc with the driving drums of Jeff ‘ Tain ’ Watts ( also of Branford Marsalis group fame ) , Branford himself on tenor sax , Roderick Ward ( alto sax ) , Charnett Moffett , Chris McBridge , Robert Hurst or Andy Gonzales ( all alternating on bass ) , Jerry Gonzales ( percussion ) and on one track Steve Berrios and on two Don Alias ( both on drums , percussion ) . |
| 9 | As was his custom , Sukarno adapted Nehru 's actual words to reflect his own hostility to the Dutch and his growing admiration for Japan . |
| 10 | Louis 's use of baptismal ritual to suggest his own imperial status vis-à-vis Harald was modelled on Byzantine practice , and Louis was seeking , as his eastern counterparts so often did , to promote imperial interests through intervention in the dynastic conflicts of a barbarian people . |
| 11 | Balcon 's strengthened determination to impose his own world-view on the studio 's pictures accounts for the declining ambition of Ealing 's production at this time . |
| 12 | A roar of arousal sounded out at once and he spoke above it , formal and explanatory now ( letting the standard phrases quell his own misgivings ) . |
| 13 | For days Grom lay moaning and groaning as at first the Troll 's regenerative abilities outpaced his own ability to digest it and then his stomach gradually gained ground . |
| 14 | Dr Warton did not scruple , on occasion , to visit a dying woman taking his own young children with him ; he describes how , despite the dirt on the floor , they knelt around her bed in attitudes of prayer . |
| 15 | Not unnaturally a young man thus taken on might grow up to be a shrewd and skilful miner , and perhaps at some future date form his own gang or pare . |
| 16 | There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements . |
| 17 | After Theo had gone , Vincent waited for the right moment to break his own news to Sien . |
| 18 | Olivier had in fact been making casual suggestions to Douglas as to how his role could be improved and Douglas , in awe of Olivier , allowed the knighted actor to write his own lines . |
| 19 | Secrets are not confined to the great houses of antiquity : Mr Merdle in Little Dorrit has his own new secrets , and is uneasy beneath the eye of his butler in his new London palace : ‘ He would have clasped himself by the wrists in that constabulary manner of his , and have paced up and down the hearth-rug , or gone creeping about among the rich objects of furniture , if his oppressive retainer had appeared in the room at that very moment . ’ |
| 20 | How like a politician 's were his constant attempts to justify his own record ( for example , his decision to sign a pact with Stalin and to admit the " separatists " into his governments in the mid-1940s ) or to claim credit for " successes " ( such as the exclusion of the communist ministers in 1947 ) which belonged , in fact , to others . |
| 21 | Such objective reporting offsets his own recollections that he ‘ never was a teenager , ’ and recalling only sexual feelings . |
| 22 | At first , Constant Drachenfels used his own diverse and personal magicks to record these perversions for his own languorous contemplations , but over time the very stone of the Castle itself began to listen , to record , to respond , to change . |
| 23 | ‘ Captain Fantastic did very well , ’ she agreed , her tone a little weary because the young man had not only spent every minute of the previous evening blowing his own trumpet , but much of their journey today , too . |
| 24 | A lifelong enthusiast of the stage , Hammerton first fell under the spell of music-hall as a boy in Glasgow ; from then on he attended performances of all the great variety artists of the day , and for a brief spell managed his own theatre company in Eastbourne . |
| 25 | Metaphysics — the white mythology which reassembles and reflects the culture of the West : the white man takes his own mythology , Indo-European mythology , his own logos , that is , the mythos of his idiom , for the universal form of that he must still wish to call Reason . |
| 26 | The anonymous donor of a very large sum to a very worthy cause has his own reasons for wishing to remain anonymous , which are unlikely to be discreditable . |
| 27 | Quietly , disdainfully , little brother touched his own nose , softly , and replied : |
| 28 | He betrayed a Jewish family to save his own skin . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ He always had this burning ambition to start his own business . ’ |