Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to see with his own eyes that the object he takes to be a rough piece of hemp , destined to choke the life out of him , is in fact a string of priceless pearls . |
| 2 | One point which cries out for consideration is this : do the Christian doctrines which Hegel has transposed into his own metaphysical key still mean the same ? |
| 3 | The notoriously media-shy financier has come into his own in the last ten years as one of the most successful behind-the-scenes advisors in the British art world . |
| 4 | The forensic scientist — as distinct from the forensic pathologist — has come into his own . |
| 5 | He has to come of his own free will . |
| 6 | The book that he has written with his former research student , a linguist and historian , although concentrating on a remote and antique land , is the first full definition of the scope of this new historical science . |
| 7 | The moves and countermoves of Republicans and Royalists in two rented Scottish mansions , Castle Gay and Knockraw , are directed by Buchan to one point , the apotheosis of a middle-aged man , Thomas Carlyle Craw , who has risen by his own efforts from a poor background to become the millionaire owner of an influential newspaper group . |
| 8 | Geoff is married , has a young family and has moved from his former home in West Yorkshire to Barmill . |
| 9 | Each of us has turned to his own way . |
| 10 | Total prize money in 1975 was just £700,000 a figure that Nick Faldo has exceeded on his own this year . |
| 11 | His claim to persecution , sincere as it was , was an invention , and no other critic has made of his own stigmata the stuff of critical debate . |
| 12 | The disreputable , starving pirate Brown , invading the peaceful settlement which Jim has recreated by his own efforts , excuses his attack on the village with unconscious force , enquiring : |
| 13 | For his part in a week-long happening at Glasgow 's Tramway Theatre in early May — ‘ an exploration around the body , halfway between theatre and sculptor ’ — he has drawn on his own private nightmare . |
| 14 | It has to do with his own mutilation . |
| 15 | A compositor is employed as a compositor ; a machine-minder ( printer ) likewise has to keep to his own job ; the print union is a strong one — and very jealously guard the many gains won by them for their members . |
| 16 | Satan lies to his followers and has convinced us too of his mighty strength and even starts to believe in his own lies when he claims he was ‘ self-begot ’ , caused by Fate , or he sprang from the ground or willed himself into existence , an absurd contradiction in terms . |
| 17 | He has perished at his own hands at the death . |
| 18 | The question in each case must be whether the extraction of the property from the company was dishonest , not whether the alleged thief has consented to his own wrongdoing . |
| 19 | In so far as the plaintiffs are seeking to recover from the third defendant money which he has obtained for his own benefit or for the benefit of companies which are , in effect , his alter ego , I can see that the third party would have an overwhelming argument that it can not be just and equitable to require him to contribute to whatever the third defendant is ordered to pay to the plaintiffs . |
| 20 | A blind sculptor has returned to his former college to give advice to students with impaired sight . |
| 21 | One-time pal BUILDER Jim Garrad , who never wants to speak to his former friend Mellor again after their dispute over a bill |
| 22 | Marlowe chooses to escape from his own Elizabethan society to a land of innocent pursuits where his shepherd asks a young lady , ‘ Come live with me and be my love ’ . |
| 23 | Having invented and evolved culture , man , it seems , never ceases to marvel at his own creation . |
| 24 | Macho man usually prefers talking to his own sex because it 's safer , and he 's more interested in proving he 's as ‘ male ’ as his peer group than in entering a relationship which requires an ability to give , to love , to be tender . |
| 25 | CHILD superstar Macaulay Culkin 's next role could be as a boy who gets divorced from his own parents . |
| 26 | With dependent work , the worker appears to work on his own but , in reality , he is dependent on a firm or group of firms for some vital part of his work , such as premises , equipment , supplies , or outlet . |
| 27 | Berowne almost seems to revel in his own discomfiture here , in his desperate last stand for freedom -he clearly enjoys the sensation of falling in love , even though he presents the experience as a disaster ! |
| 28 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 29 | If a broker/dealer wishes to deal with his own customer he must generally first offer the trade to the floor . |
| 30 | He remains to look after his own infants and strikes a ‘ bargain ’ with the newcomer so that , while he remains sexually inactive , he assists his victorious opponent in preventing yet further take-overs of the unit . |