Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all continental rulers , the German emperors may have been the ones Cnut was most eager to imitate , for in the second half of his reign he perhaps wished to see his own position in the northern world as emulating theirs in Europe . |
| 2 | Sewell was free in his criticisms of others , including his fellow teachers , but he generally failed to state his own experience and opinions clearly . |
| 3 | He managed three points in 1976 driving his own Copersucar Ford , 11 in 1977 , 17 in 1978 , 1 in 1979 , 3 in 1980 and absolutely nothing in 1981 , the year when he finally stopped racing his own cars and quit F1 . |
| 4 | For a time the celibate once more tried to end his own monk-like existence . |
| 5 | He still had to put his own words on this blank sheet in front of him . |
| 6 | Chesterton also tended to express his own feelings in the mouths of alleged fictional characters . |
| 7 | More self-indulgent self-important twaddle , the product of a rock star who really did believe his own press , his own myth . |
| 8 | He was a pragmatic loner from first to last , and by now had devised his own answer to the student chestnut ‘ Who will do the dirty work under socialism ? ’ : |
| 9 | It can be indicative of full maturity of the follower , now left to run his own activities without supervision . |
| 10 | But the Russians of Torpedo Moscow hit back when Igor Chuganov beat Peter Schmeichel , who two years ago had led his former club Brondby to penalty glory in the same stadium . |
| 11 | At the Fine Art Society ( to 14 May ) , Gordon Cooke has organised an exhibition of Sutherland 's etchings from 1923 to 1938 , the formative period when he was influenced by Samuel Palmer and then began to forge his own style . |
| 12 | But Mr Tomlinson then had to build his own chassis for the tractor , another job which is n't done in an afternoon . |