Example sentences of "his [det] [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone wanted to ask him why his former band had a name like a toilet cleaner — Midge said did n't choose it . |
| 2 | Central defender Tony Mowbray believes his former team have a fighting chance at Old Trafford . |
| 3 | It would be hard to fault anything they did and although the unit bears the fiddle player 's name , every member of the band was given his own chance to add a little something to the songs under Pierre 's subtle method of musical direction . |
| 4 | Out of these emerged a plan for holding a national conference to discuss the recent recommendations of the Royal Commission and also his own proposal to form a National Deaf Association . |
| 5 | My father was intensely and justifiably proud of his family , which in his own generation produced a viceroy , a general , an admiral , a Lord of Appeal , a High Court judge and a famous actor . |
| 6 | Following his massive success with Johnny Rogan — The Severed Head , Morrissey intends to write his own tome comprising a load of pictures and the great one 's own captions . |
| 7 | His refusal to grant extra funding on the grounds of ‘ basic need ’ at the two schools in his own constituency created a political storm which threatened to deprive him of the Roman Catholic vote in the general election . |
| 8 | His own story provides a fitting conclusion for this book . |
| 9 | Before it had a chance to reach Emily 's neat pairing , however , it caught his own second bowl a solid crack , sending both to join the first , out of play . |
| 10 | A coroner has paid tribute to a parachutist who sacrificed his own life to save a colleague . |
| 11 | George Oldham , Newcastle 's former city architect and now in private practice under his own name advocates a more drastic solution . |
| 12 | Hospital staff commended another canoeist who took a strap from his own craft to make a sling . |
| 13 | His own contribution comprises a full-page crucifixion , historiated and ornamental initials , and elaborate borders densely populated with biblical scenes , angels , ‘ portrait ’ heads , scenes of courtly life , drolleries , and representations of flora and fauna both conventionalized and naturalistic . |
| 14 | The rationale behind this presumption is that the ditch digger is assumed to have dug the ditch at the extremity of his own land and then to have thrown the spoil onto his own land to make a bank on which the hedge is planted ( Fisher v Winch [ 1939 ] 1 KB 666 ) . |
| 15 | On issues such as the size and eternity of the universe , his own faith played a selective role , setting the conditions for admissible theories . |
| 16 | His own voice sounded a long way away , and muffled . |
| 17 | But buying for his own home requires a totally different approach . |
| 18 | All in case his own knight came a cropper and he had to change horses in mid stream . |
| 19 | There is there a critical discussion of a sort of Chaucer 's literary works , introduced by the Man of Law ironically declaring his own inability to tell a " " thrifty tale " " as Chaucer can with his " " lewed " " metre and " " crafty " " rhyming . |
| 20 | It is a question of fact in every case whether the number of people affected will constitute ‘ a class of Her Majesty 's subjects ’ , but Lord Denning provides some guidance , saying ‘ A public nuisance is a nuisance which is so widespread in range and so indiscriminate in its effect that it would not be reasonable to expect one person to take proceedings on his own responsibility to put a stop to it , but that it would be the responsibility of the community at large ’ . |
| 21 | His own imagination offered a punishment far in excess of his crime . |
| 22 | 1964 ) he maintained that Barth and Bultmann had come to represent the extremes of objectivism and subjectivism , and offered his own attempt to chart a middle way in which both the given truth of God and the need for it to be apprehended in the personal encounter of faith would be given their proper place . |
| 23 | The news that the Collector had been seen doing his own laundry caused a mild sensation at first and was interpreted as the long-awaited collapse , particularly by those members of the garrison who had once belonged to the " bolting " party . |
| 24 | Peter was feeling irritable , partly because Joe 's putative success contrasted with his own failure to acquire a girlfriend , and partly because Jill was reputed to be hot stuff , a chick who positively demanded to go all the way . |
| 25 | He hung up a notice in his own writing bearing a quote from The Gondoliers : |
| 26 | He was said to have returned to his own room to finish a card game of patience before reporting finding the body . |
| 27 | A few doors down from his own room sat a Co-ordinator of Intelligence whose task it was to try and keep MI6 , 5 and the true military organisations from duplicating each other 's efforts and spitting in each other 's beer . |
| 28 | His own cry opened a door in his heart and the crippling pain spilled out . |
| 29 | He believes Mr Mitterrand is using Tory disarray over the treaty to cover up his own reluctance to reach a Gatt world trade deal . |