Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he hated his own beauty , and dropped the mirror on the floor where it broke into many small pieces . |
| 2 | Perhaps Vincent 's mother had put pressure on him , or perhaps he had his own reasons for softening the blow . |
| 3 | Somewhat pointedly he closed his own book and tipped his seat right back , preparing himself for sleep . |
| 4 | So he does his own audit before the company audits him . |
| 5 | We might say that Wordsworth has slanted his autobiography to fit a theory ; in doing so he denied his own high academic attainment . |
| 6 | So he followed his own route . |
| 7 | So he rejects his former selfish hiving-off from the rest of the human race ( lines 53–6 ) ; from now on even worse sights than Beaumont 's painting will be welcome , for they will reinforce his resolve to endure in patience to the end ( lines 57–9 ) . |
| 8 | He was intelligent enough to realize that his father would never allow him much freedom in the business and so he started his own training centre at Heald Grove , Rusholme . |
| 9 | And that would be soon as ever he had his own son safely established back under this roof , where he should have been all along ! |
| 10 | As ever he answered his own question . |
| 11 | Ian took the others to the baths to practice canoeing skills , Eskimo rolls and so on , and later he got his own boats out of the garage and we canoed the Otago harbour , very beautiful in the evening sunlight at low tide . |
| 12 | Later he queries his own adjective ‘ fruitless ’ , but still repeats that the victory long ago in which Sauron was overthrown but not destroyed ‘ did not achieve its end ’ . |
| 13 | Merger with the Southampton based British Seafarers was not merely a convenience , but a necessity , and Wilson , writing in his journal The Seaman exulted that " Shinwell 's patched up old derelict has run bow against the rock of the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union and ignominiously gone to the bottom " Later he gave his own version of how Shinwell had flattered the susceptible French into leaving to him the day-today business of the Glasgow branch and poisoned the minds of the members against him . |
| 14 | Campaign to help find released offenders decent places to live Audrey Gillan speaks to a former convict and drunk back on the right track now he has his own home . |
| 15 | Yet too often he lets his own facility run away with him and the result begins to seem breathless rather than breathtaking . |
| 16 | Here he made his own career as a writing-master ; he also published books on book-keeping and was occasionally employed as an auditor . |
| 17 | Here he presents his own A to Z of economics in the week that Norman Lamont is to deliver the crucial Autumn Statement . |
| 18 | Then he capped his own little finger with it and held it up for them both to see . |
| 19 | There he played his own Piano Concerto in D , K.537 , for which he received yet another snuffbox , and heard an organ recital by J.W. Hässler , whose teacher had studied with J. S. Bach . |
| 20 | Doubtless he had his own reasons for stopping off at the island — my own were to attend a workshop aimed at formulating a scientific plan for the development of the archipelago over the next two decades . |
| 21 | Yet he occupies his own space while Philippa wavers all around hers and he dances where she stumbles and sings where she lectures and lives , just lives , where she prods , activates , teaches . |
| 22 | Afterwards he dipped his own thumb into the bowl and made the same yellow mark on Chola 's forehead . |