Example sentences of "his [det] [conj] the [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 | He cupped her head in one hand and massaged her lips with his own till the blood pulsed into them . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | On the face of it his life centred around business of one sort or another , his own and the council 's . |
5 | 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 ) . |
6 | Nothing takes anything away from Mario 's championship , which was solidly built and solidly achieved by his own and the car 's merits . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | He treated the assets comprised in the trust fund as his own and the trustee as though it were his mere agent or nominee . |
9 | The linguistics part he knew already , the English he could pick up on his own and the sociology bored him . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |