Example sentences of "his own [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At his own request he was buried in the nearest church in his former diocese , at Frome , in a tomb without an inscription and surrounded by a rail . |
| 2 | For his own protection he was escorted from the court by police . |
| 3 | And in his own character he 'd found out what he wanted to know . |
| 4 | John Hasted , professor of physics at Birkbeck College , University of London , and an investigator of the paranormal , was very wary when told that Shaw and Edwards had been fakers ‘ It 's possible that it 's true , ’ he told New Scientist Asked about his conclusions from his own work he said ‘ I accept that there are , shall we say , pulses of paranormal action which take the form of mini-acoustical shock waves . |
| 5 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 6 | Roberts suggests that in his own way he 's as obsessed as the people he 's observing . |
| 7 | In his own way he is something of an expert on the private lives of actresses . |
| 8 | She realised that in his own way he was being considerate , for by refusing to talk she was laying herself open to torture . |
| 9 | In his own way he was as dangerous as Marcus — had n't he already trapped her into staying with him longer than she deemed either necessary or wise ? |
| 10 | Archie may not have been fastidious , but in his own way he was cultivated . |
| 11 | For his own successor he suggested Rohde , " the ablest of all the younger philologists I have known " , and with a disarming naivety he added : " I can not express how profoundly my life here in Basle would be alleviated by the presence of my best friend . " |
| 12 | A part of her — the silly , hopeless part — did want the job , of course , because it meant that she would see Dr Russell , since it was his own sister she would be nursing . |
| 13 | And erm my mother used to bake , and we used to take the clothes basket with the tins of dough ready prepared by your mother and we used to take them to the bakehouse at lunchtime , when we were coming back from our from our meal , the midday meal from home , leave them at the bakehouse and so the baker had finished his morning 's baking with his oven of his own bread you see . |
| 14 | If a broker/dealer wishes to deal with his own customer he must generally first offer the trade to the floor . |
| 15 | Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken , immensely regrettable , brought about by fear and greed . |
| 16 | In dealing with the difficult topics of his own day he resorted to silence and ambiguity . |
| 17 | In his own life it had always been he who was the supplicant , telephoning Diana from call boxes on his rounds in the hope of closing some nagging gap of intimacy left at breakfast , and always having to hide the agony of dread that her casualness could cause him for fear of the danger of irritating her . |
| 18 | By saying , " How odd " in response to McKendrick 's giving of his own name he fails to provide the second pair part of the adjacency pair ( Schegloff and Sacks 1973 ) which constitutes a greeting . |
| 19 | And er later on he took it into his own name you see . |
| 20 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 21 | By his own admission he ‘ hypes ’ player to the press . |
| 22 | His move into stockbroking at the age of 21 followed two years ' training to be a chartered accountant which by his own admission he did n't enjoy . |
| 23 | On his own admission he is dissatisfied with additionality procedures in other countries — for instance , in Italy , the Netherlands and France — but , uniquely , he picks on this country , despite the fact that the structural funds have doubled and we are not receiving any benefit . |
| 24 | On his own admission he was too young then to appreciate that success . |
| 25 | By his own admission he has led a charmed life . |
| 26 | My dearest , I tell myself — what you will certainly say — that it is a landowner 's inalienable right to do what he wishes with his own land I know all this — yet it does not stifle the cries of terrified children and the weeping of their parents . |
| 27 | He was now reviled by the party that he had helped to lead for fifteen years ; in his own word he was " excommunicated " . |
| 28 | Bill nodded absently to Lucy , but with his mind full of his own problem he said to Silas , ‘ I know you 're right , boss — and you know what women are like — ’ |
| 29 | Wrapped up in his own debauchery he had not known of her plight until recently . |
| 30 | yeah yeah he 's wanting his own independence you see |