Example sentences of "and he [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relative isolation suited his character and he followed his own ideas with considerable success . |
| 2 | And he raised his own chin at George and went out , slamming the door behind him . |
| 3 | His reserve broke before he had got far and he revealed his own grievance . |
| 4 | We found out that the neighbours on the left hand side , who were in fact an elderly couple , and his son was working erm , and he had his own business working at home . |
| 5 | Already , like flowers turning towards the sun or like bees seeking pollen , in the wastelands of his world and in the ooze below — in that deep dark underocean of power and Chaos — Jaq sensed attentions focusing upon him tentatively ; and he blanked his own white spark . |
| 6 | Something struck him all at once , and he smote his own forehead . |
| 7 | And he says our own economic worries are n't a good enough excuse . |
| 8 | For him , rugby football is an absolute religion , so he goes out and he does his own thing , and my goodness he says some forthright things , too — marvellous ! |
| 9 | The founder of the papal reform , Pope Leo IX , had been a warrior as well as a devoted bishop before he became pope , and he led his own troops against the Normans in south Italy . |
| 10 | Sniffing cocaine was just normal behaviour among the people he mixed with , and he developed his own cocaine addiction to add to his years of boozing , as he described : |
| 11 | And he attacked his own party 's scheme to house mentally handicapped in the community . |
| 12 | And he were a lot better than the Tory , and he held his own with which was saying something , saying something . |
| 13 | In 1889 he returned to England and enjoyed high society and sporting pursuits : there were shooting parties on his Norfolk estate , and he held his own private stand at Epsom . |
| 14 | At least one of the Scots of flag rank , Admiral Lord Keith , was no friend of the Administration , and he employed his own patronage to augment the Indian patronage distributed by his brother , William Elphinstone , in order to sustain an opposition political interest . |
| 15 | After this comprehensive study of every aspect of horticulture , Miller came to the conclusion that his preference was for ornamental gardening and he established his own nursery in St George 's Fields , Southwark , later the site of King 's Bench Prison . |
| 16 | And he did his own gardening , right up , when he was a hundred , he was fit as a fiddle when he was a hundred , doing his own gardening . |
| 17 | He has heard it all before , and he has his own opinion . |
| 18 | He would prefer not to come back on to my patch , and he has his own investments to look after in the City . |