Example sentences of "as he [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew the trees and waterfalls as well as he knew his own children . |
| 2 | Memories of shared evenings , with cans of beer and football on the TV , flooded back to Bodie ; shared hours with Ray Doyle , mad pursuits , of cars , of women , shared jokes , anger , support ; he knew this small apartment almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 3 | A voice that Rex knew almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 4 | He knew that face almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 5 | Despite the elegance , it was a completely masculine presence , and he dominated the room as easily as he had his own office . |
| 6 | As he felt his own orgasm beginning to pulsate be felt her legs gripping him and drove his penis into her as hard as he could , bursting inside her like a dam . |
| 7 | As soon as the first ring sounded he knew she was not there , that the sound of the telephone was reverberating through empty rooms , as lost and desolate as wind crying across a salt marsh , as hopeless as he felt his own heart to be . |
| 8 | His eyes gleamed and he breathed noisily through his nose as he lifted his own rifle to his shoulder then fired both barrels at the shadow in quick succession . |
| 9 | Kuhlmann looked at his assistant , Kurt Meyer , as he replaced his own phone . |
| 10 | His optimism grew as he made his own assessment of the other candidates . |
| 11 | She watched as he made his own examination before straightening up . |
| 12 | For the girl 's eyes , which he was beginning to read as he read his own children 's , had flared briefly in vindictive joy , and again veiled themselves . |
| 13 | A terse and gritty thriller in which an investigation into a mysterious death leads cop Joe Mantegna through both the mean streets of the present and the horrors of the past as he confronts his own identity . |
| 14 | NEIL KINNOCK vainly sought to put a brave face on a night of setbacks for Labour as he increased his own majority in Islwyn to a record for the constituency . |
| 15 | Rune 's voice , low and demanding , stilled her hand as he held his own glass towards her . |
| 16 | Few words had been spoken — Denis had been glad of his gun 's eloquence as he found his own voice suddenly unreliable . |
| 17 | The headmaster expanded into geniality as he contemplated his own cleverness in ensuring that Hilary Frome remained at Burleigh for his GCE year . |
| 18 | John Hitch had seemed convinced that it would and Plummer trusted the instincts of his colleague almost as he trusted his own . |
| 19 | But the news that Dalglish is prepared for another big-name auction will dismay his former Liverpool team-mate Graeme Souness , as he makes his own bid for Ferdinand . |
| 20 | Was it because of Emmanuel Steele , who had his shoemaking shop between the Misses Cardings and the bakery and who was well into his forties , but apparently had no use for women , inasmuch as he did his own housework in the rooms above the shop , and ate most of his meals out . |
| 21 | Marc slid it off and trailed it all the way back along her inner arm as he withdrew his own . |
| 22 | Forget the hand on your hair even though it hurts , and ram the heel of your palm into his mouth as he raises his own fist . |
| 23 | Newport began to show signs of tension , Orrell tackling David Thomas late as he pursued his own high kick , but Gareth Thomas hooked his penalty attempt past the left post from 37 yards out . |
| 24 | To a greater extent than a human in a similar gathering each rabbit , as he pursued his own fragment , was sensitive to the trend of the whole . |
| 25 | Orality is also a feature of the fiction of Juan Rulfo , whose Pedro Páramo re-creates the world of rural Mexico through a narrative which initially appears to be a conventionally written text but turns out to be constituted orally , with one of the characters , Juan Preciado , emerging as the internal author as he recounts his own story and hears and transmits those of the other characters . |