Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was not all : Mr Browning said Mr Landor 's rooms were all to be painted , carpeted and furnished and that he thought her own quarters might at least be painted if she contributed only a little to the cost . |
| 2 | Alexander Vass was subtly demonstrating that he chose his own time and his own way of doing things . |
| 3 | She bent her head so he could n't see her blush at the thought that he meant their own relationship , and pretended to do something to the heel of her shoe . |
| 4 | His father persuaded the minister to conduct the funeral service without reference to the fact that he took his own life . |
| 5 | Kirton , though , achieved rather more fame for the fact that he took his own lemons to Athletic park when they did not have the appropriate fruit to go with his gin-and-tonics , and that he watched the game from the in-goal area , puffing on a cigar with a long checked scarf around his neck . |
| 6 | Conscious that Marie-Claire was listening to every word , Melissa hesitated for a moment before saying , ‘ It is believed that he took his own life . ’ |
| 7 | An inquiry into the death of a yachtsman during the British Steel Challenge has heard that he took his own life . |
| 8 | An inquiry into the death of a yachtsman during the British Steel Challenge has heard that he took his own life . |
| 9 | He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses . |
| 10 | So at home Milton is just one of the others , although he seems to have enough tricks up his sleeve to ensure that he gets his own way most of the time . |
| 11 | He was only about four when he died and I think it was totally unexpected , because I believe that the doctor who had tended him had remarked previously that he wished his own son , who was about the same age as Thomas Isaac , had been as robust . |
| 12 | Now that he owned his own studio by the banks of the River Colne he could play the mogul to the technicians , artists and directors he had gathered there . |
| 13 | The farmers ' wives indulged him in the harshness of his religious practices , never minding that he brought his own delph and cutlery and would eat only boiled eggs and bread . |
| 14 | His volume of business was such that he had his own warehouse , built during the 1830s , in Gloucester docks . |
| 15 | The trouble with the hon. Gentleman is that he believes his own propaganda . |
| 16 | Bournonville saw it and was so impressed that he put his own version in Copenhagen in 1836 , to different music . |
| 17 | The only powers that control fate are the Gods , and so when Tamburlaine mentions in a conversation which he has with Theridamas that he controls his own fate , this implies that he believes he is a God : ‘ I hold the fates bound fast in iron chains , and with mine hand turn fortune 's wheel about ’ . |
| 18 | So pleased was he with the results , that he built his own house — the so-called Muscon — next door ( 475/5 ) around 1765 . |
| 19 | Colin , a born darts player , was so keen to play for the ‘ Whads ’ that he paid his own signing-on fee ( £56 ) , and has also agreed to wash the team strip every week . |
| 20 | Jacqui was just the frayed end of an otherwise completed pattern and it was with reluctance that he dialled his own number . |
| 21 | So compulsively did he watch me empty my glass that he drained his own in compulsive sympathy . |
| 22 | As the decade rushed on , as he saw or read about slaughter in Abyssinia , beatings and murder in Hungary , Romania , Albania , racial violence in the Memel , Carpatho-Ukraine , Slovakia , fascist killing in Italy , Germany and Spain , communist in the east , Edward Carrington grew more and more amazed , then horrified , by the country that he supposed his own . |
| 23 | His experience with Mossadeq also convinced the Shah that he needed his own money , and outside the country . |
| 24 | I was therefore surprised to see that he excluded his own name from the list . |