Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handing her one of the mugs , his eyes on her apprehensive face , he slowly sipped his own coffee . |
| 2 | The advantages of an exchange rather than a sale , says Mr Nunn ( who set up the business after he successfully swapped his own home ) , are : no chain of buyers and sellers to fall through , stamp duty is payable only on any difference in price between the two properties , and agents ' fees are less . |
| 3 | In fact , he was to learn of it the very next day , and he duly performed his own half of the bargain with a strangely honourable integrity . |
| 4 | He obviously had his own reasons for wanting you to believe he owned Seawitch . |
| 5 | Throughout he fiercely defended his own actions and was at pains to explain why he did not quit as many had said he should immediately after Black Wednesday . |
| 6 | It was the greatness of the ancient empire to which the Shah was attracted and with which he constantly compared his own achievements and ambitions . |
| 7 | He already had his own . |
| 8 | He still wanted his own way . |
| 9 | He still held his own automatic in his left hand , and he was raising it towards the door as he backed off . |
| 10 | He seemed quite unperturbed by her behaviour , by being walloped across the face , and she watched in amazement as he calmly took his own glass and sat in the chair opposite . |
| 11 | He hardly knew his own mind , they said candidly among their own intimates . |
| 12 | The colonial experience gave him material for his propositions about colonial nationalism , the subject which he quickly made his own . |
| 13 | As an apprentice director he quickly defined his own idiom but it took the initiative and the backing of MGM 's Irving Thalberg to sponsor his big prestige films . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ He once had his own phone line but was disconnected by BT after running up huge bills . |
| 15 | He usually took his own washing to the laundry . |
| 16 | While a close personal friend and follower , he also enjoyed his own power base in the midlands and an independent career in the service of the king and his son Edward . |
| 17 | He also ran his own radio station , Breakfast pirate Radio , where he met his wife . |
| 18 | He also added his own adaptation of early Beefheart into his strange songs , recorded them and pressed up a couple of hundred records for friends , family and whoever . |
| 19 | He also analysed his own dreams and from these studies developed his theories . |
| 20 | From this episode Hopkins evoked a magnificent description of that wild night ; but he also provided his own elucidation of God 's dealing with His creatures : God had shown forth both His majesty and His compassion . |
| 21 | At one point , he was screaming at the top of his voice ; he also relived his own birth , met his fears of homosexuality and had the most terrifying fright ‘ that my prick was going to be cut off ’ . |
| 22 | I saw that he probably encountered his own body as worthless and warped and that he identified his body as his self , but he was wrong . |
| 23 | He joyously reached his own half-century but immediately became Akram 's fifth wicket . |
| 24 | ‘ What man in the whole world ’ , C. S. Lewis asked , ‘ except a father or a potential father-in-law , cares whether any other man gets married ? ’ and he partly answered his own question by saying that the ‘ self-abnegation ’ and ‘ anxiety ’ of the Poet for his Friend 's good was ‘ more like a parent 's than a lover 's ’ . |
| 25 | He later opened his own small restaurant , Les Quat' Saisons , ( also in Oxford ) , which received its second Michelin star in 1982 . |
| 26 | He often had his own tape-recorder running to make sure there were no liberties with the editing . |
| 27 | Patiently , he explained that he now ran his own fledgling advertising agency . |
| 28 | He wished he really believed his own supportive words . |
| 29 | He even stylized his own signature to look like a logo alongside Liquitex and Formica . |
| 30 | He even made his own plans to help plot escape routes . |