Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 2 | You can not include a Boss unless you also include his own Mob for him to fight with . |
| 3 | No , they would simply tell him again to mind his own business and send him another note composed of gibberish . |
| 4 | Handing her one of the mugs , his eyes on her apprehensive face , he slowly sipped his own coffee . |
| 5 | The advantages of an exchange rather than a sale , says Mr Nunn ( who set up the business after he successfully swapped his own home ) , are : no chain of buyers and sellers to fall through , stamp duty is payable only on any difference in price between the two properties , and agents ' fees are less . |
| 6 | In fact , he was to learn of it the very next day , and he duly performed his own half of the bargain with a strangely honourable integrity . |
| 7 | He effectively cast his own vote against the Islamic trend by calling on his subjects not to vote for extremist religious ideologies — a move which could prove counter-productive . |
| 8 | He obviously had his own reasons for wanting you to believe he owned Seawitch . |
| 9 | Throughout he fiercely defended his own actions and was at pains to explain why he did not quit as many had said he should immediately after Black Wednesday . |
| 10 | It was the greatness of the ancient empire to which the Shah was attracted and with which he constantly compared his own achievements and ambitions . |
| 11 | He already had his own . |
| 12 | He still wanted his own way . |
| 13 | He still held his own automatic in his left hand , and he was raising it towards the door as he backed off . |
| 14 | He seemed quite unperturbed by her behaviour , by being walloped across the face , and she watched in amazement as he calmly took his own glass and sat in the chair opposite . |
| 15 | She remembered those days when they had played together as children , too , he always getting his own way . |
| 16 | He always mixes his own greens , ‘ I have absolutely no colour sense . |
| 17 | He hardly knew his own mind , they said candidly among their own intimates . |
| 18 | The colonial experience gave him material for his propositions about colonial nationalism , the subject which he quickly made his own . |
| 19 | As an apprentice director he quickly defined his own idiom but it took the initiative and the backing of MGM 's Irving Thalberg to sponsor his big prestige films . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ He once had his own phone line but was disconnected by BT after running up huge bills . |
| 21 | He usually took his own washing to the laundry . |
| 22 | ‘ No , he usually brings his own lunch and eats it here . ’ |
| 23 | It also shaped his own priorities : in 1958 , he returned not just with the aim of saving France 's honour , but with a clear vision of a new regime that he intended to found as well as a hard-won wisdom about how best to realize his vision . |
| 24 | Minton 's zestful response not only captures in vivid terms the quality of these artists ' work , but it also reveals his own anxiety about what contemporary art should do and be . |
| 25 | While a close personal friend and follower , he also enjoyed his own power base in the midlands and an independent career in the service of the king and his son Edward . |
| 26 | He also ran his own radio station , Breakfast pirate Radio , where he met his wife . |
| 27 | He also added his own adaptation of early Beefheart into his strange songs , recorded them and pressed up a couple of hundred records for friends , family and whoever . |
| 28 | He also has his own Amstrad . |
| 29 | He also analysed his own dreams and from these studies developed his theories . |
| 30 | On each of these points he is able to expand as the result of more detailed observation into which he also introduces his own speculations , as in " it has been broke of [ sic ] through a natural cause because of the texture " . |