Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wealthy and handsome ‘ man of many parts ’ , he owned considerable property in Funchal and designed his own town house ( the large house , with a tower , which the Madeira Wine Institute now occupies ) and his favourite country residence , Quinta do Jardim da Serra , where he built his own mausoleum and was buried . |
| 2 | The rents seem low , but when one considers that Mayhew 's seller of songs with a dependent wife earned less than 10s. a week and sometimes less than 5s. , it is easy to see why he might cling to his far from model room , where he has his own ‘ bits and sticks ’ , even at an exorbitant rent of 2s. 3d . |
| 3 | ‘ In five days , ’ said Harvey when we were outside the cubicle , ‘ we can indoctrinate a man so that he really believes his cover story better than he believes his own memory . |
| 4 | For a while Glass found it difficult to find people to perform his work , so he formed his own ensemble ( which continues performing at a prodigious rate ) . |
| 5 | Yes my brother er joined the Army about two years ago until he took his own life earlier on this summer . |
| 6 | He entered the next carriage , his hand gripped tightly around the railing , and moved slowly down the corridor until he reached his own compartment . |
| 7 | He ran at great speed , his eyes on fire , his teeth tight together , and did not pause until he reached his own door . |
| 8 | He constantly screamed and shouted abuse at his parents and had violent temper tantrums when he would indulge in physical aggression , hitting and punching people and furniture , and screaming at the top of his voice until he got his own way . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose in a way a man remains a child until he has his own . ’ |
| 10 | At last she heard the creak of footsteps on the stairs , and hardly dared breathe until he closed his own room door . |
| 11 | Though if he took his own life , as everyone has always supposed , and as we are still likely to be supposing after the present rumours have been scotched — if the balance of his mind was disturbed , that curious disruption which accompanies a man 's election to end his life , but never any other procedure , no matter how eccentric or irrational — then reasons are not to be looked for . |
| 12 | I made a guesswork assessment that it would be able to provide a motor car that would cost the disabled person at least 25 per cent less than if he made his own arrangements . |
| 13 | If he answers his own question in the affirmative ( which he clearly does ) de Man will have read the text in a certain way and therefore construed it as an object , the discovery of which will then be used to validate the way in which the text has been read . |
| 14 | If he held his own with other boys in the struggle for power he could hardly help behaving in ways which were unlikely to be lovable — a fact which assumed a definite importance when the only hope of affection came from those same boys . |
| 15 | John wrote emphatically : ‘ I have made no provision for my son Lawrence other than the bequest of £100 because he had his own business in opposition to mine ; I was willing to work with him and help him but he would not and preferred competition . ’ |
| 16 | Equally , Sigibert and Guntram may have been opposed to Gundovald because he threatened their own positions . |
| 17 | And every time he c used to come home on leave she used to cry , she did n't know him in uniform till he till he put his own clothes on . |
| 18 | Travis brought one knee up , draping an arm over it while he studied his own mug of coffee . |
| 19 | 2 The defender avoids the blow , using the movement of the leopard to shift deftly to the side , while he institutes his own counter-attack of a leopard strike to the face . |
| 20 | Whether he avoids his own pitfalls must be open to doubt . |
| 21 | Had he been watching the others , before he took his own spoonful ? |
| 22 | Only Theuderic , in the eastern kingdom of Rheims , attracted Gregory 's attention , first when he sent his own son Theudebert to deal with a Danish invasion led by Chlochilaich , the Hygelac of Old English poetry , and second when he became involved in the internal politics of the Thuringian royal family . |
| 23 | One day , when they were together and he had a good career , when he had his own house and a car and did n't need to walk and could afford taxis if he wanted them ; he 'd take that same route just for old times ' sake , try to recapture the uncertain ecstasies of that dark , early morning trek . |
| 24 | Why she should immediately think it might be Sebastian , when he had his own key anyway , she did n't know . |
| 25 | Lord declares that he was unaware that a contract had actually been signed with Harris — though he knew Harris was keen to write the biography — at the point when he wrote his own outline . |
| 26 | But Rochester did er did er , when he was trying to rebuke himself for committing what was bigamy , and the works , he said , when he compared his own wife , who was really a mental animal because she very bestial the way she bit people , and then , he compared her with this sweet , dewy-eyed Jane , he did give a reason did n't he ? |
| 27 | But fame was put into context for Bernie when he met his own hero , the legendary Blues guitarist , BB King . |
| 28 | For example , they selected only the second of Byrd 's two four-part In Nomines , and neither of the models ( by Tye and Parsons ) that were evidently in Byrd 's mind when he composed his own pair . |
| 29 | Philip walked back home , only running when he reached his own gate . |
| 30 | It is said that when he heard his own voice on the radio , some seven years after writing this letter , Lewis was surprised and in some measure disconcerted . |