Example sentences of "but he [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee would catch them , he always did , but he kept his own counsel because when Garry got mad he sent him home . |
| 2 | But he knew his own mind , did Gabriel , and persevered so that the holly adorned the bottom edge of the beam like a curving curtain pelmet . |
| 3 | That was still before people went to chokey for dodgy dealings , but he soured his own patch . |
| 4 | This Boden observed other people 's taboos just so far as was necessary , but he went his own way , sure that no values were valid but his own . |
| 5 | Moyer 's Puritanism was more extreme that Goodwin 's or Owen 's , but neither fanatical nor over-rigid ; for instance , he championed a bill in Barebone 's Parliament to abolish lay patronage over ecclesiastical benefices , but he exercised his own right of presentation to the rectory of Pitsea in 1656 . |
| 6 | But he withdrew his own nomination less than 12 hours later when his involvement with Maze escaper James Clarke became public . |