Example sentences of "his [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr de Klerk , while failing to offer any firm assurances , did say in a press conference of his own that the government would look at ‘ areas ’ where the state of emergency might be lifted . |
| 2 | His Cabinet was not his own but an inheritance front Law . |
| 3 | He cupped her head in one hand and massaged her lips with his own till the blood pulsed into them . |
| 4 | He set up on his own because the company he worked for , Top Man , did n't really know what was going on , on a street level . |
| 5 | Clearly , Jose was speaking from the perspective of a Nigerian journalist : much of what he said was true only of his own and a handful of other countries . |
| 6 | On the face of it his life centred around business of one sort or another , his own and the council 's . |
| 7 | And it is the management of these fantasies , both his own and the work 's , that permits their partial gratification and gives literary pleasure ’ ( 1975 , p.52 ) . |
| 8 | Nothing takes anything away from Mario 's championship , which was solidly built and solidly achieved by his own and the car 's merits . |
| 9 | The dilemma for the firm is that to adopt any other terminology ( eg associate ) may diminish the status of the salaried partner in both his own and the client 's eyes . |
| 10 | He treated the assets comprised in the trust fund as his own and the trustee as though it were his mere agent or nominee . |
| 11 | The linguistics part he knew already , the English he could pick up on his own and the sociology bored him . |
| 12 | In one case , which has still to come to trial , it is not clear which hat the salesman was wearing when he made his deals : his own or the life company 's . |
| 13 | In this case , the student can write in pencil the words he is n't certain how to spell ; or underlines them for his own or the teacher 's later attention . |
| 14 | Contradictory stories tell of Vincent coming into his own as a pacifier , quelling an uprising of vengeance-bent miners by persuading them that violence only begets violence . |
| 15 | He became estranged from his father and in 1867 set up his own as a repairer of farm machinery , thus beginning the firm of R. A. Lister & Company . |
| 16 | H. L. A. Hart , who has recently added his voice in support of this kind of analysis , provides the following explanation : ‘ The commander characteristically intends his hearer to take the commander 's will instead of his own as a guide to action and so to take it in place of any deliberation or reasoning of his own : the expression of the commander 's will … is intended to preclude or cut off any independent deliberation by the hearer of the merits pro and con of doing the act . ’ |