Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the German war ended he was given his own section trying to break Albanian cypher . |
| 2 | From there it had been only a matter of time until he was given his own prison . |
| 3 | He was such a regular visitor that he was given his own pit boots and locker . |
| 4 | He was conducting his own investigation . |
| 5 | According to a posthumous account of Mozart 's last months , he and Constanze drove out to the Prater one fine day at the end of October , during which Mozart told his wife that he was convinced he was writing his own Requiem . |
| 6 | He was acting in plays , he was writing his own plays , he was reading books , he was meeting other writers , making friends … |
| 7 | I said I thought he was using his own . |
| 8 | How generous he was to acknowledge his own defeat , when he asked one of his rivals -Parrhasius — to draw back the curtain and unveil the portrait underneath , and was told by the artist that the curtain itself was painted . |
| 9 | Mrs Robinson yesterday said : ‘ Mr Fallon was definitely wrong , he was reading his own figures wrongly , but whatever the statistics that wo n't give us one more nursery place . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I told him that whilst he was dating my own sister it was quite out of the question . |
| 11 | But there was also a sense in which he despised fame even as he obtained it , and when in this year he described Mark Twain as a man who wanted success or reputation and yet at the same time " resented their violation of his integrity " , there can be little doubt that once again he was expressing his own feelings through the agency of another 's . |
| 12 | Soon afterwards he was building his own telescopes , at which , like most things he turns his hand to , he excels . |
| 13 | Gilbey , who is involved with Formula One 's Team Lotus , said he was leading his own life and was not involved in the future plans of the princess . |
| 14 | Perhaps he was contemplating his own life with Vivien here just as , when he connected McKnight Kauffer 's death with a sense of " the void " , he was once again returning to his own feeling of emptiness which had played so large a part in his religious conversion . |
| 15 | As writer of a weekly newspaper column , he was allowed his own room in hotels , and from the corridor could be heard above the typewriter coughing away as he smoked one cigarette after another . |
| 16 | Jumblatt also announced that he was suspending his own participation in the Cabinet until the army had withdrawn from the National Library , the Emir Amin Palace and the Bayt al-Din Palace — buildings the PSP had recently been occupying . |
| 17 | She halted , hesitated , flicked a glance at him and saw from the surprised look on his face that he was putting his own interpretation on why she was scurrying to her room . |
| 18 | He was planning his own paper , the Wall Street Journal , which was to include posters by various artists , including Pink Floyd 's Nick Mason and a story by Terry Jones , later of Monty Python 's Flying Circus . |
| 19 | Now he was attending his own , but in a non-singing capacity ! |
| 20 | David and June met and married when he was running his own funeral business and she was the florist |
| 21 | Now , an outsider , he was arguing his own beliefs , within the Conservative framework , from the public platforms of Westminster and beyond . |
| 22 | When in Mark 's gospel the father of the demented boy cried out , ‘ I believe ; help my unbelief ! ’ , he was condemning his own doubt as unbelief . |
| 23 | At the time of the competition , he was designing his own house , Foxwarren Park in Surrey , with the aid of another architect , Frederick Barnes of Ipswich . |
| 24 | In answering this question he was contrasting his own Kingdom with an earthly kingdom . |
| 25 | It was as if he was echoing her own grudging appraisal . |