Example sentences of "his own [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brett 's third penalty on the hour raised Selkirk hopes and they were further fanned by Marshall 's try from his own lineout pouch , Keith McConnell 's support and tilts by Bill Gentleman and Cammy Guntley . |
| 2 | Memories flickered in late August 1984 when Mrs Thatcher appointed Lord Young of Graffham , the former Chairman of the Manpower Services Commission , Minister-without-Portfolio with responsibility for ‘ enterprise ’ , with his own Enterprise Unit in the Cabinet Office . |
| 3 | After his father 's death in 1885 the cable companies persuaded him to set up his own manufacturing business , Muirhead & Company , which was so successful that in 1894 he was able to take over his father 's old firm when it was finally wound up . |
| 4 | The area 's MP since 1983 ( maj. 6,047 last time ) , he has fought a vigorous campaign at doorstep and taproom level , even circulating his own campaign video . |
| 5 | ‘ Often as he sat in Davin 's rooms in Grantham Street , wondering at his friend 's well made boots that flanked the wall pair by pair , and repeating for his friend 's simple ear the verses and cadences of others which with the veils of his own longing dejection , the rude pheoboric mind of his listener had drawn his mind towards it and flung it back again , drawing it by a quiet inbred courtesy of attention , or by a quaint turn of Old English speech , or by the force of its delight in rude bodily skills , for Davin had sat at the feet of Michael Cussack the game , repelling it swiftly and suddenly by a grossness of intelligence , or by a bluntness of feeling , or by a dull stare of terror in the eyes , the terror of sole of starving Irish village in which the curfew was still a nightly fear . |
| 6 | He understands ‘ the endless drift of shrieking forms in a circular desert ’ of his own boyhood emotions . |
| 7 | For Clift , Dean 's arrival in Hollywood was a setback in his own film career . |
| 8 | A LEGEND in His Own Press Release : Meet Matt Lattanzi , ‘ the hunky toyboy husband of Olivia Newton-John ’ according to the rather lush Mills and Boon-ish press release for his film Catch Me If You Can , out on Medusa home video . |
| 9 | A LEGEND in His Own Press Release Part 2 : Nescafe do n't just make coffee now they create micro celebs . |
| 10 | He 's usually good value for a bit of earthy wisdom and wit but managed to miss his own press conference this time . |
| 11 | And the Captain , after a brief visit to the Sand Gate and a conversation with the Colonel , returned to the Inn for his own afternoon nap . |
| 12 | Meridian Broadcasting will make its comedy drama debut on January 5 with Full Stretch , a six-part series starring Kevin McNally as ex-Chelsea footballer Baz Levick who runs his own limo hire company from a garage in North London . |
| 13 | He had still to plan his own escape route , find a way to get out of the country himself . |
| 14 | James was sent sprawling across his own parlour carpet , a blinding anger building inside him . |
| 15 | This is a horror movie a fucking horror movie this lunatic is making his own horror film and you ca n't even tell yourself Hell it 's only a story are n't the special effects good it is n't real because that 's exactly what it is and the gorilla man is explaining in that hideous high-pitched baby 's voice what he has in this bottle and in this syringe and I throw up halfway through but they pause the video for me . |
| 16 | If , as now seems certain , that is not possible , then Flushing Meadow , where every regular tennis journalist has his own horror story to tell about the failures of the elevators which carry them to the Press Box in the sky , will remain ‘ the place we love to hate ’ . |
| 17 | Although Ian Paisley had unfailing faith in his own leadership qualities — a faith that was shared by his supporters — he was willing to work in coalition with the other unionist leaders , and the continued divisions within the unionist camp can not be laid entirely at his door . |
| 18 | Within the grotesquely labelled Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS , to be more manageably known as the FET or National Movement , under his own leadership Franco combined the Falange , the Carlists and the other , smaller political factions of Nationalist Spain . |
| 19 | Josselin was schoolmaster of Earls Colne from 1650 to 1658 and we learn about education and about his own reading habits , as well as his theories and even his dreams . |
| 20 | So , a couple of years later , he founded his own welfare trust . |
| 21 | His own temper rose , but he held it in check . |
| 22 | He translated a Sanskrit grammar and dictionary into English and compiled his own Sanskrit/Bengali/English dictionary . |
| 23 | The advantages of team teaching , for instance , include the fact that the teacher is no longer dependent on his own wit and abilities , nor on his own lobbying power ; the team can plan with more flexibility and more confidence , drawing on the insights and specialist skills of its members and with a broader knowledge of what the pupils are receiving and needing . |
| 24 | It s so typically English that this rebel should end up with his own sweat shop in Clapton — you 'll see it for yourself in due course . |
| 25 | Orthopaedic surgeon Vic Seal at Hereford General says he ca n't operate on patients on his own waiting list , but he continues to operate in other , often less urgent cases , sent to him by health authorities , in Wales , which do still have money to spend . |
| 26 | BANNED : George Lazenby says insurers would n't let him do his own Bond stunts |
| 27 | Through the successive phases of his career — at Gainsborough , Gaumont-British and then at his own Ealing Studios — he was to show that his talent lay in finding the most talented people available , giving them the best context to work in , inspiring and stimulating their efforts and intervening where necessary to ensure that the best possible film came out of the production process . |
| 28 | The Speaker of the majlis , Mehdi Karrubi , toured Pakistan and North Korea in late February to publicize his own peace plan [ for which see p. 37943 ] . |
| 29 | He runs his own computer company . |
| 30 | Steven Jobs built his own computer company from scratch and became a multimillionaire before his thirtieth birthday . |