Example sentences of "[prep] his own [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In dealing with the difficult topics of his own day he resorted to silence and ambiguity . |
| 2 | Bill nodded absently to Lucy , but with his mind full of his own problem he said to Silas , ‘ I know you 're right , boss — and you know what women are like — ’ |
| 3 | By saying , " How odd " in response to McKendrick 's giving of his own name he fails to provide the second pair part of the adjacency pair ( Schegloff and Sacks 1973 ) which constitutes a greeting . |
| 4 | And erm my mother used to bake , and we used to take the clothes basket with the tins of dough ready prepared by your mother and we used to take them to the bakehouse at lunchtime , when we were coming back from our from our meal , the midday meal from home , leave them at the bakehouse and so the baker had finished his morning 's baking with his oven of his own bread you see . |
| 5 | Before turning to the foundation of his own union he attempted to transform the Sunderland Union into a national organisation , speaking from 1885 with authority as its president . |
| 6 | The young corporal , it should perhaps be pointed out , was also a Grant , but indeed with the recommendation of his own officers he was to a great degree responsible for his own advancement to commissioned rank , and this kind of promotion for gallantry was by no means an isolated example , for a considerable number of non-commissioned officers of suitable education , many of them Scots , reached the junior commissioned ranks . |
| 7 | You 've wangled him into dinner tonight , but of his own accord he would have gone straight off … to … to Marise , probably . ’ |
| 8 | So in this instance it would be made on half , if , if the husband had left his job of his own accord it would be made on half of that amount . |
| 9 | And er , concludes from the observation of his own children I suspect that the vague and very real fears of children , which are quite independent of experience , are inherited effects of real dangers , and abject superstitions during ancient times . |
| 10 | The Deputy Under Secretary could talk of his host 's prospects and disappointments , he could learn of the problems of digging out foreign exchange and hard currency in the Third World , the tribulations over the renewal of Residence Permits , the difficulties of keeping reliable servants , but of his own world he must remain silent . |
| 11 | In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses . |
| 12 | In one way he was glad to be interrupted — superstitiously afraid that if of his own volition he decided to leave the miraculous spot then the unique mood would not follow him and he would be like a man without a shadow . |
| 13 | With one last cry she held him impossibly tight , her nails scoring his back , and knew even in her state of mindlessness that Leo had timed himself to her , that even in the grip of his own needs he had thought of her . |
| 14 | In the quiet of his own skull he called it manly , but he would never have used such a word to her , not only because she was privately decorous but also because the way she talked about her children made him sense that she dreaded being thought lesbian . |
| 15 | In terms of his own objectives it was a diplomatic coup — even if the " independent " element was qualified in practice by the British desire to minimize the costs . |
| 16 | He had hit the right note of playful yet dignified affection with the children — mischievous Sam Yaxley had proved an ally there ; and even throughout the days of his own distress he had comforted the sick and sorrowful , acting in the simple trust that , however removed chose impoverished lives might seem from his own , they were members of one another . |
| 17 | If a broker/dealer wishes to deal with his own customer he must generally first offer the trade to the floor . |
| 18 | My dearest , I tell myself — what you will certainly say — that it is a landowner 's inalienable right to do what he wishes with his own land I know all this — yet it does not stifle the cries of terrified children and the weeping of their parents . |
| 19 | With his own wife he scarce dare attempt it . |
| 20 | It was more like a personal appearance by a pop star … just a glimpse of Desert Orchid was enough to draw the crowds and set the cameras clicking.But after all , this was the horse with his own fanclub.And he has created a few records.Between 1983 and 1991 Dezi won 34 steeplechases , picking up half a million pounds in prize money into the bargain.Now he 's retired … and enjoying the fame : |
| 21 | kept checking up on people 's like erm capabilities as well instead of getting on with his own job he kept checking up on their them all as well . |
| 22 | With his own hands he cut off the beards of leading courtiers and ordered all noblemen to abandon this ancient symbol of Orthodox manhood . |
| 23 | With the Khan of the Merkuts as with his own father he found it almost impossible to conceal his true emotions . |
| 24 | Otherwise the trainer 's satisfied with his own men he do he gallops Wednesdays and Saturdays . |
| 25 | With his own body he broke down the wall that separated them and kept them enemies ’ ( Eph. 2:14 , 15 ) . |
| 26 | And er later on he took it into his own name you see . |
| 27 | The international businessman is battered and buffeted by so many external forces that even if he is operating skilfully within his own limitations he may not always win . |
| 28 | Wrapped up in his own debauchery he had not known of her plight until recently . |
| 29 | And in his own character he 'd found out what he wanted to know . |
| 30 | In his own life it had always been he who was the supplicant , telephoning Diana from call boxes on his rounds in the hope of closing some nagging gap of intimacy left at breakfast , and always having to hide the agony of dread that her casualness could cause him for fear of the danger of irritating her . |