Example sentences of "in his own [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wrapped up in his own debauchery he had not known of her plight until recently . |
| 2 | That indicates what might happen next : a vote of no-confidence in Mr Yeltsin in his own parliament which , because that parliament is increasingly under the sway of Communist deputies , might pass . |
| 3 | This year 's Reith lecturer , Jacques Darras , is an outsider in his own culture who believes in a cross-cultural unity . |
| 4 | And in his own character he 'd found out what he wanted to know . |
| 5 | The item uppermost on his desk was a note in his own handwriting which said : ‘ Straker hol — chck Daw 1st 2 pts Pellings chchiness . ’ |
| 6 | In his own life it had always been he who was the supplicant , telephoning Diana from call boxes on his rounds in the hope of closing some nagging gap of intimacy left at breakfast , and always having to hide the agony of dread that her casualness could cause him for fear of the danger of irritating her . |
| 7 | Italy is moving rapidly in that direction , in pursuit of something that is ‘ enjoyable ’ at the same time as being ‘ not escapist ’ , that magic formula which Eco believes to have been the discovery of the American postmodernists ( with Barth as their prophet ) and to which in his own best-seller he aspired ( Eco 1985 : 65 — 72 ) . |
| 8 | Lawrence Durrell sustains in his own way what he calls his ‘ challenge to the serial form of the modern novel ’ : in The Alexandria Quartet , he presents successively three different views of the same set of events , creating a novel ‘ not travelling from a to b but standing above time ’ ( Durrell 1957 and 1983 : 198 ) . |
| 9 | Roberts suggests that in his own way he 's as obsessed as the people he 's observing . |
| 10 | In his own way he is something of an expert on the private lives of actresses . |
| 11 | She realised that in his own way he was being considerate , for by refusing to talk she was laying herself open to torture . |
| 12 | In his own way he was as dangerous as Marcus — had n't he already trapped her into staying with him longer than she deemed either necessary or wise ? |
| 13 | Archie may not have been fastidious , but in his own way he was cultivated . |
| 14 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 15 | He was now reviled by the party that he had helped to lead for fifteen years ; in his own word he was " excommunicated " . |
| 16 | Even in his own day his wines were called , not after Hautvillers , but after the man himself , vins de Pérignon . |
| 17 | She could n't help remembering the way Josh had looked , that afternoon in the front parlour , so wrapped up in his own misery she could n't reach him . |
| 18 | In his own music he applies these influences along with his vast understanding and strong technique to produce a very distinctive approach . |
| 19 | In 1988 , he told an Iranian living on social security , found guilty of using a forged rent book and inflicting grievous bodily harm , that in his own country he would have had an arm chopped off ‘ or something similarly spectacular . ’ |
| 20 | Another example was a member of the governing party in his own country who fled here for asylum , saying that his colleagues were rude and inconsiderate . |
| 21 | Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken , immensely regrettable , brought about by fear and greed . |
| 22 | The Singh home intrigued him because although Jazz — apart from his looks — was as normal as himself , once in his own house he took on a sort of foreign ambience , changing subtly into an Indian to fit into the undeniably different atmosphere . |
| 23 | Here in his own house he was aloof , unsmiling , the man Jenna had first met , and it was almost impossible to believe that this man had held her , kissed her passionately , urged her to come here to stay with him . |
| 24 | Whilst doing this Marvell can live in his own world which has no connection with anything external or real at all . |
| 25 | ( 15 November 1780 ) Meanwhile , Leopold continued to convey Varesco 's alterations to the text , so that his son could enter them in his own copy which he was using while writing the music . |
| 26 | His rapport with the children he treated was almost uncanny ; and there was in his own nature something of the immediacy and openness of a child , which , coupled with a great sense of fun , helped him to get easily into communication with all sorts of people , and to make friends . |
| 27 | It has been suggested that Greek was not the native language of the author but that he wrote in the universal language of the day which was Greek , while thinking in his own language which was probably Aramaic . |
| 28 | Those in his own party who have an ulterior motive in seeing the Government defeated over Maastricht have had their doubts about his leadership confirmed , not least by what appeared to be three conflicting government lines within one week and the belated admission that Parliament is a spectator rather than a player in the game . |
| 29 | When one came up in his own department there were 600 applications . |
| 30 | It is a book that I greatly admire , for in his own time its author succeeded in doing what I am struggling to do now . |