Example sentences of "in his own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wrapped up in his own debauchery he had not known of her plight until recently . |
| 2 | This reflection went far to set up Harry again in his own esteem , for it meant that Isambard had been sure of his victim 's obstinate silence even under torture ; more sure of it , if the truth were told , than Harry himself had been at the worst moment . |
| 3 | This is a more objective discussion than progress monitoring and should concentrate on the problems the surveyor is encountering in his own contribution rather than the inherent problems of a particular job . |
| 4 | Gorbachev , in his own contribution to the discussion , spoke of a ‘ civil society of free men and women ’ which would replace the ‘ Stalinist model ’ of the past ; continuing the work of the 20th Congress of 1956 , its purpose was to ‘ profoundly democratise and humanise society , to make it free and create living conditions worthy of a human being ’ . |
| 5 | Martin 's solicitude made Nick ashamed : it seemed to point out a certain coldness in his own heart . |
| 6 | The other was a man called Clint Brawner who in his own field of American racing was just about as big a winner as Ferrari or Chapman in FI : over fifty wins in eighteen years . |
| 7 | Dr Wickram is a physicist , as well known in his own field as Professor Benson is in his . |
| 8 | However , the only person Leese was associated with in the 1930s who was later to become distinguished in his own field , was the popular medieval historian and expert on Gothic architecture , John Hooper Harvey . |
| 9 | As a Times leader put it : ‘ A man of genius in his own field , he must be counted among those who have deserved well of his kind and his name will be remembered in honour . ’ |
| 10 | And there are quite a number of people in Turkey who do know him , people in his own field . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ My own family was pretty undistinguished , and Stephen had at any rate a respectable reputation in his own field — though I probably overvalued it at the time . |
| 12 | In his own mitigation Harty said the previous day he had been clearing out his garage and come across long forgotten fishing tackle . |
| 13 | With her thoughts far away and her eyes fixed on the distant horizon , she did not notice where she was going — and as the tall , broad-shouldered man who was coming from the opposite direction was too deeply absorbed in his own reflections to be aware of his surroundings , there was a sudden abrupt collision . |
| 14 | His anger was fully under control , but his pride in his own craftsmanship was disturbed beyond recovery , and though he was on the front row again in Holland at the next race , I know that by Monza he realized he had been defeated by forces beyond his control . |
| 15 | That indicates what might happen next : a vote of no-confidence in Mr Yeltsin in his own parliament which , because that parliament is increasingly under the sway of Communist deputies , might pass . |
| 16 | Labour 's employment spokesman , Henry McLeish , was startled to find that male unemployment in London marginals like Streatham , Hornsey , Lewisham West and Dulwich was worse than in his own Fife seat and in some of the grimmer parts of Glasgow . |
| 17 | The originator of this research was the maverick James McConnell , at Ann Arbor , Michigan , who in a series of papers during the 1960s , first in conventional scientific journals and then in his own publication , the exotically named Worm-Runners Digest , reported experiments in which flatworms , trained by pairing light with electric shock , were chopped up and other , ‘ naïve ’ ( that is , untrained ) worms allowed to cannibalize them . |
| 18 | Roy won fame in 1954 when he signed for Tiger comic and starred in his own publication from 1976 . |
| 19 | Satan lies to his followers and has convinced us too of his mighty strength and even starts to believe in his own lies when he claims he was ‘ self-begot ’ , caused by Fate , or he sprang from the ground or willed himself into existence , an absurd contradiction in terms . |
| 20 | In his own sphere , Keynes was as great an adventurer as Lloyd George in his , and I doubt whether the old Liberalism or the new was entirely safe in his hands . |
| 21 | Reid was familiar with the works of both Malebranche and Arnauld , and expressed views strikingly similar to those in the latter 's Treatise in his own Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man . |
| 22 | This year 's Reith lecturer , Jacques Darras , is an outsider in his own culture who believes in a cross-cultural unity . |
| 23 | Keller , too , was firmly rooted in his own culture … . so once again we shall have ‘ German art ’ and so forth . |
| 24 | And in his own character he 'd found out what he wanted to know . |
| 25 | Even after the murder of Thomas Becket in his own cathedral on 29 December 1170 , there were churches in Aquitaine which still turned to Henry for help and protection . |
| 26 | In fact the murder of Thomas Becket by four knights of the king of England in his own cathedral in 1170 , sealed the fate of the royal position . |
| 27 | He had a way of beating the offside trap of defenders like Newcastle 's McCracken by waiting until the ball was in his own half of the field before attacking . |
| 28 | 35 MINUTES : Ipswich regained the lead when Guentchev , thriving on having better support up front , picked up a ball from Whelan in his own half and sent a long ball for Goddard to chase through the middle . |
| 29 | The third came from another defensive clearance which found Connolly in his own half inside the centre circle . |
| 30 | The Jed revival started with a brace of Gregor McKechnie penalties early in the second-half and then came Amos 's winner , courtesy of a McKechnie interception dep in his own half . |