Example sentences of "with his own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He actually praised the value of democratic local government and he compared that with his own quango state . |
| 2 | He returned to Hong Kong with his own credibility increased , and that of his government diminished . |
| 3 | For the reformers ' vision of a fully-developed hierarchy , each man with his own sphere of competence , all subject to canon law and all beneath the discipline of the papal rod , evoked a mixture of admiration and envy in those laymen , accustomed to deference , whose position in the ecclesiastical scheme was lower than they would have wished . |
| 4 | He became more and more obsessed with his own kingship and the importance of his direct succession from Cyrus . |
| 5 | Anthony Ryan was known in his family as able to pick a fight with his own fingernails . |
| 6 | When France declared war on England , on 17 June 1778 , Jones remained unemployed and he also managed to fall out with his own crew who , in a petition , called ‘ his temper and treatment [ of them ] insufferable ’ . |
| 7 | It meant a three-horse jump-off of the riders on four faults and , when it came to this , Whitaker had no problems going clear with his own Everest Lifestyle to leave Mark Armstrong , Friday night 's Grand Prix winner , as runner-up with Rockall . |
| 8 | Presenter , Jim Bowen , puts the contestants at ease with his own brand of humour . |
| 9 | It had been Frankie 's Howerd 's wish to entertain specialist audiences , like the Fire Service , for some years with his own brand of sizzling humour . |
| 10 | He had hoped that the pope himself would have excommunicated Henry at the same time as his chief accomplice ; but since this was not to be , Anselm consulted Archbishop Hugh and decided to go ahead with his own excommunication . |
| 11 | Two Noblemen of Scotland , Macdonald of the Isles , and the Thane of Cawdor , conspired to set up a rebellion in the Highlands to draw the King 's army to quell it , whilst Sweno , the Norwegian King , appeared with his own army , and started to march across Scotland . |
| 12 | If he knocks down the wicket with his own leg , he is out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I had it brought up and it was absolutely bursting at the seams with his own notes , all tucked in , on the backs of bills and things . |
| 15 | Coleridge thought The Borderers ‘ absolutely wonderful ’ , and surrounded only by the distractions of friendship and a lovely , unfamiliar countryside , found time at Racedown to make progress with his own play , Wordsworth providing the necessary encouragement as well as some ‘ strict & almost severe ’ criticism . |
| 16 | But when they were made respectable , vouched for by his own father , when they were associated with his own parents , and with his own existence … it was quite different . |
| 17 | Overseeing all this should be a press ombudsman , monitoring potential failures by the Press Commission and in the ways newspapers behave , with his own powers to levy a fine . |
| 18 | Many times he had been able to explain the results of complicated chemical analyses performed in conjunction with his own rôle , for which Montgomery had cause to be grateful . |
| 19 | He tinkered with his own music at home . |
| 20 | Meanwhile Charles lives at Highgrove and can pursue his interests and also socialise with his own friends , including Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 21 | All the time the reader is reminded that he is reading , confronted with his own reactions , reminded to keep his distance , forced into sceptical attitudes by an author determined that nothing shall appear easy or comfortable . |
| 22 | In this second case a person was less aware of the actual stimulus but quickly in tune with his own associations and what he could ‘ read between the lines ’ . |
| 23 | He heard of a boy who was a loner-but not lonely , you know — satisfied to be with himself , happy with his own company . |
| 24 | One evening , Seb could put up with his own company no longer . |
| 25 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 26 | Because Miyagi did not stay in Japan for long periods , it was Yamaguchi who made a great headway with his own system of goju-kai . |
| 27 | He had had violent diarrhoea and had wiped his arse in the night with his own clothes . |
| 28 | Gesner was pleased with his own clothes , and had to confront the realization that Therese 's would be no less effective . |
| 29 | Vasarely at odds with his own foundation |
| 30 | To understand why he was willing to take such an immense risk with his own reputation as well as with France 's future , one must look beyond personal ambition . |