Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , and for the sum of £1m , Mr Ames found himself running his own business again . |
| 2 | The guy let him carry his own case and led him through into the concourse where the English driver from the Embassy pool was waiting . |
| 3 | You could give him a book token let him do his own . |
| 4 | He met Yves Saint Laurent , then at Dior , and helped him found his own fashion house . |
| 5 | Hobson 's work is mainly remembered because Lenin used it to construct his own , quite distinct , theory of imperialism . |
| 6 | But perhaps she ought to have made sure she told him to see his own doctor as soon as he got home ? |
| 7 | In Havana in April , Fidel Castro politely told him to mind his own business . |
| 8 | She had her eyes on the figure striding across the hall towards the telephone table , and the look on her face caused him to close his own eyes for a moment , for he knew how she had taken what Martin had said : although it had been voiced lightly it was meant to have serious intent , and in her own mind his marrying would mean once again that she would have notice to quit . |
| 9 | It was that very irrevocability that caused him to lift his own confidentiality order leading to OSF spilling the beans . |
| 10 | His attitude was , however , coloured by a highly literary romanticism , and despite his efforts at identifying himself with a primitive culture , his outlook naturally remained that of a sophisticated European ; he borrowed freely from primitive sources but reinterpreted them to suit his own decorative and symbolic purposes . |
| 11 | The creak of a pump-handle and the answering gush of water made him feel his own thirst and taste his tongue 's rancid dryness . |
| 12 | He looked into Rincewind 's mask of sheer terror , which made him redouble his own grip on the stones . |
| 13 | No I took the sheets off , I made him put his own sheets on . |
| 14 | He did it in style , preparing the ground by a speech to the Legislative Assembly in which he paid tribute to Gandhi 's sincerity and asked him to recognize his own . |
| 15 | Even when Guy left her for the few seconds it took him to remove his own clothes , his murmured words of love and praise still warmed and reassured her . |
| 16 | Then we dressed him in a new outfit and persuaded him to reveal his own short beard instead of the fake white one . |
| 17 | There was no doubt that Paddy Byrne 's greatest gift to his daughter Sarah was the passing on of his irresistible Irish charm which enabled him to get his own way . |
| 18 | But we saved the Queen 's fair fame , and to Rudolf himself the fatal stroke came as a relief from a choice too difficult : on the one side lay what impaired his own honour , on the other what threatened hers . |
| 19 | Nigel was glad as it saved him breaking his own rules about using the phone . |
| 20 | Old Van Leer left nothing to chance : not only did he plan his own funeral , he even made Wim rehearse a funeral oration , which he did with his usual brio . |
| 21 | SANKUKAI Some years after Tani established his style , history repeated itself and his senior student , Yoshinao Nanbu , left him to found his own school , developed from shukokai , called ‘ sankukai ’ . |
| 22 | He had made various bids at drawing her out , to no avail ; now he felt in sympathetic collusion — thus had he survived his own schooldays . |
| 23 | Weis , he was certain , had not forgotten that , nor had he mentioned his former Security rank without some underlying reason . |
| 24 | He said it contained his own private cargo and that he wanted to unload it himself . |
| 25 | Yesterday , Jack Dromey , national officer of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said it underlined his own belief that ‘ ministers and DML managers conspired behind Rosyth 's back to move to one dockyard by the year 2000 . |
| 26 | One of our violinists left us to start his own violin school , and also a flying school . |
| 27 | Even scholars intent on appropriating the classical inheritance did so for their own reasons : Abbot Lupus of Ferrières made his command of Cicero 's letters serve as a sort of code in communicating with learned friends , while Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims compiled extracts from the Theodosian Code and then cited them to suit his own book . |
| 28 | There was a stony determination there that set him examining his own resolution in a panic , in case there should be weaknesses in it he never suspected . |