Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But few expect the incumbent Mr Dinkins to say much about slimming his own government . |
| 2 | He is intent only on saving his own skin . |
| 3 | It is as if he is intent only on protecting his own interests . |
| 4 | Such a balancing act could keep his government in being only by increasing his own reputation for lack of principle . |
| 5 | Since it is only by understanding his own fact-presupposing explanation of the meaning of pain-language that we can hope to see through questions and answers about ‘ Other Minds ’ , let us consider the positive side of his teaching first . |
| 6 | Dr Neil turned away from inspecting his own bookshelves , said , apropos of what she could not imagine , ‘ You are not English , I perceive , Miss McAllister . ’ |
| 7 | The latter ( 1727–1784 ) used his copy extensively in preparing his own Treatise on Gardening . |
| 8 | To have any chance now of holding his own , the new health secretary , William Waldegrave has , first , to explain how the old-style NHS failed its patients . |
| 9 | But it was the mock-Tudor style which first caught the public 's imagination and appealed to the burgeoning market of more affluent self-builders who were happy to delegate the construction , says Potton 's PR manager , Richard Crisp , who joined the company four years ago after building his own Potton home . |
| 10 | It is small wonder that Darwin thought twice about threatening his own privileged position by identifying himself with a new twist on this old theme . |
| 11 | ‘ If Harry got there , ’ the old man said , ‘ then he got there by finding his own path . |
| 12 | Diogenes , instead of building his own success and fulfilling himself , did the opposite and stripped himself of all pride so that there was no way anyone could hurt him . |
| 13 | As he put his foot on the doorstep , a young man seemed to jostle him — it was young McCulloch from Weem , the sulky handsome lad with the curly head — why had he come hanging about here instead of hearing his own man preach in Weem ? |
| 14 | Instead of answering his own question , Rafiq let out a high-pitched wail , which was taken up by the rest of the men . |
| 15 | The complementary , interpenetrating phenomena in proletarian life that the implied narrator confronts , and by confronting epiphanizes , are a means primarily of defining his own ambivalent relation both to the zeitgeist and to his own eternal validity . |
| 16 | ‘ And turned it down again before slitting his own throat ? |
| 17 | 1 think he would have been amused rather than otherwise at finding his own dishes reappearing as specialities of the starry restaurants of the 1970s , and pleased that reforms in the matter of lighter meals and more logical sauce and vegetable cookery which he had preached in the 1930s have at last been put into practice . |