Example sentences of "to his own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he commission a report to consider in detail and with expertise the fluctuations to which he referred rather than , as he has , jumping to his own conclusions about why such fluctuations should exist ? |
| 2 | In reply to his own question , ‘ What shall I render to the Lord for all his bounty to me ? ’ the psalmist can only receive with gratitude what Yahweh freely gives him and rededicate himself : ‘ I will lift up the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord , I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of his people . ’ |
| 3 | when he 's been there a little while perhaps he can come with all the authority of a Euro MP and tell us the answer to his own question er , the honourable member for Ashfield er referred back to the positioning of the European parliament er where it should meet , there are three sites . |
| 4 | he , he erm he started his speech by saying er you know what are the , what are the ten most frightening words in the , in , in the American language an and he said , the answer to his own question was I 'm from the federal government , I 'm here to help . |
| 5 | A bearish , messianic figure with mutton-chop whiskers , frequently clad in cowboy boots and ‘ bolo ’ tie , Asimov was stoically resigned to his own eccentricity . |
| 6 | ‘ And so should yourself be , too , Owen O'Clery , ’ he had muttered as he laid his fiddle-case on the opposite seat , curled himself up and was immediately transported to his own dreamland . |
| 7 | The lauding of Hitler 's modesty was compared with the tone of self-praise with regard to his own work and effort which had been a feature of his New Year address . |
| 8 | Alexia and Cameron III gently chided him for his whistling habit , and he developed an aversion to his own work . |
| 9 | Since he had no typist or secretary in the country , this meant that much of the time which he wished to devote to his own work had to be spent on business correspondence . |
| 10 | Even the Tory MP for Bodmin , Robert Hicks , had signalled his opposition to his own government 's policy by speaking on an anti-nuclear platform . |
| 11 | Stepson of a rabbi and product of a broken home , Laszlo was brought up in an orphanage , and it is clear that from a very early age this intense , obstinate man sought not only to bring order to his own life but to control to an unprecedented degree the environment of his future family . |
| 12 | The land someone cultivates is necessarily his : this is simply a special case of the fact that each man unquestionably has a right to his own life and labour , and so has the right to the products of that labour . |
| 13 | Mr Wolski thought of his friend the eagle who was struggling for life through this long night Then he did something he had not done for years , for decades , since before the darkness came to his own life in the Second World War : he said a silent prayer . |
| 14 | But , if that was so , why had Cohen resisted the threat to his own life ? |
| 15 | He had expected everybody to abide by the rules he had applied to his own life . |
| 16 | Back to work on Monday , back to his own life now . |
| 17 | Ken had to go back to his own life and Orton and Halliwell to theirs . |
| 18 | Police say that one well known UFF figure is regularly driving through nationalist parts of North and West Belfast despite the real risk to his own life . |
| 19 | Keith shouted to his own man . |
| 20 | If Pindar in the Thirteenth Olympian meant anything at all by saying that the Muses breathed sweetly over Corinth , he was not referring to his own day but perhaps to that of the Corinthian Arion who invented the dithyramb . |
| 21 | Enough light would spill inwards from the porch as the door closed slowly on its damper , enough at least for him to get to his own door and line up the key ; but when it came to it he hurried too much and was trying to shake out the Yale when the front door put him in darkness . |
| 22 | ‘ Of course , Mr Caretaker and of course the Bishop has a key to his own door . ’ |
| 23 | Only the Bishop has a key to his own door . ’ |
| 24 | Gloucester immediately recognized the threat posed to his own position by Woodville and his fleet , and the first recorded actions of the new regime include an overhaul of the officials in strategically important castles around the Solent . |
| 25 | In other words , controlling as he did the nominations to all learned appointments in whichever of the areas he was then kazasker , he would urge young scholars to enter the relative dead end of the career of kasabat kadi and thereby prevent them from passing up through the ranks of medreses to become candidates for mevleviyets and thus rivals to his own position . |
| 26 | He did n't see her as a woman , Merrill realised , but simply as a useful adjunct to his own position in the company . |
| 27 | Another possibility is that the leader perceives the high achieving follower as a threat to his own position , and withdraws . |
| 28 | Gloucester immediately recognized the threat posed to his own position by Woodville and his fleet , and the first recorded actions of the new regime include an overhaul of the officials in strategically important castles around the Solent . |
| 29 | Harthacnut chose to remain there , presumably because he was exercised by the threat which Magnus posed to his own position , and this left Harold Harefoot , Cnut 's other son by Ælfgifu of Northampton , to dispute the English throne with his half-brother 's supporters , headed by Queen Emma and Earl Godwin . |
| 30 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |