Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My friend has his own sauna and spends what I consider to be excessive amounts of time in the sauna cabin with temperatures over 80 degrees centigrade . |
| 2 | It was after we left them that my father opened his own bank account . |
| 3 | My Dad bought his own house in Shepherds Bush , for about £5500 . |
| 4 | But the sight of their debauchery stifled his own , and the knowledge that they were going to end the evening at Madam Rachel 's select brothel , just off the Haymarket , far from exciting him , disgusted him . |
| 5 | A WOUNDED British woman told yesterday how her lover gave his own life to save her from death in the claws of a crazed grizzly bear . |
| 6 | Some thought Meredith Jones a rough , bullying master , picking out the brightest boys to train them up for the scholarship class and by their results inflate his own ego . |
| 7 | He could see in Mariana 's eyes that her thoughts mirrored his own . |
| 8 | She saw his attempts to wish his own brand of authority on to the production as little more than temperamental interference , and , in turn , told him how he should play his scenes . |
| 9 | Fish explained his decision to run his own recording studio ; ‘ I got tired of giving a lot of money away to other studios and being away from my family and Scotland . |
| 10 | But even should she explain it to her as his ruse to get his own way with her , there was still the possibility that the ruse might not have come off ; in anyone older than him and less strong , it could possibly have achieved its object . |
| 11 | He had been at his wits ' end , with no reply to Bigwig 's scornful impatience except his readiness to risk his own life in company with Fiver and Pipkin . |
| 12 | He no doubt intended to bring the local Forest administration more closely under his control : he certainly used his opportunities to promote his own relatives . |
| 13 | Buxton revealed his awareness of conflicting pressures and the source of his determination to pursue his own course in a letter to Althorp on the eve of the 1832 motion on emancipation . |
| 14 | The High Elf player uses the High Elf army list , whilst his opponent uses his own list . |
| 15 | The Empire player uses the Empire army list , while his opponent uses his own list from the Warhammer Armies book for his army . |
| 16 | With his opening salvos the anti-pluralist has , if anything , merely forced his opponent to modify his own position somewhat , not to abandon it . |
| 17 | The patient 's interest consists of his right to self-determination — his right to live his own life how he wishes , even if it will damage his health or lead to his premature death . |
| 18 | We can detect how much further the second boy has gone in overall grasp and in sticking to his convictions about what he has read — and in his desire to bring his own generalisations about sport into the dialogue . |
| 19 | That had to be a figment of his imagination to justify his own actions . |
| 20 | Finally , Johansson makes a mistake : he brakes too late and Niki is unable to avoid having his wing clip his own rear wheel as he goes past . |
| 21 | He played himself all the time , using his characters to display his many theatrical talents . |
| 22 | Characteristically , de Gaulle sharpened the contrasts in retrospect : the actual text of his comments made his own preference ( for the third option ) much less transparent . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the Schopenhauerian aspects of his theory contradicted his own earlier doctrines without in fact bringing them properly into line with Schopenhauer 's aesthetic itself . |
| 24 | Perhaps his failures fuelled his own curiosity . |
| 25 | Framed in the airlock , he seemed like his ship to have his own light source , shining white and gold . |
| 26 | We used to split them up and his men take his that way and th we used to bring ours this way , yeah . |
| 27 | He used both hands and all his strength to swing his own sword and took the man 's head with a single blow . |
| 28 | His secrecy abut his own generosity makes it very difficult to document in full ; certainly , during the years of the Second World War , he gave money to Dylan Thomas and Roy Campbell , but many other such instances may have gone unrecorded . |
| 29 | The master expected his servant to increase his own personal wealth , a situation that is exactly analogous with the generally accepted microeconomic concept that management should seek to maximize the wealth of their ordinary ( equity ) shareholders . |
| 30 | It had been extensively rewritten by Robert , who was now so good at doing Mafouz 's handwriting that it had affected his ability to reproduce his own signature convincingly . |