Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their achievement as adults — each imposing his order on an external world he made his own — they were united in triumph . |
| 2 | Though he did other broadcasts , Snagge was particularly fond of the Boat Race , which he made his own for forty years . |
| 3 | In 1752 he prepared a catalogue of the contents of his Mill Hill garden and later had this bound with the seventh edition of the Dictionary where he made his own marginal notes on items of interest , including remarkable first flowerings in Britain . |
| 4 | His optimism grew as he made his own assessment of the other candidates . |
| 5 | At Southampton he made his own position devastatingly clear to the waiting journalists . |
| 6 | I made a guesswork assessment that it would be able to provide a motor car that would cost the disabled person at least 25 per cent less than if he made his own arrangements . |
| 7 | Here he made his own career as a writing-master ; he also published books on book-keeping and was occasionally employed as an auditor . |
| 8 | He made his own cameras and lenses , including a panoramic camera , and promoted the use of photography in geology . |
| 9 | She watched as he made his own examination before straightening up . |
| 10 | He lowered his own head again , allowing his lips to pressure gently over her face , seeking their pleasure over the rise and fall of her face and neck . |
| 11 | STAN FLASHMAN went crazy again yesterday — but this time he attacked his own Barnet players , branding them ‘ greedy bastards ’ . |
| 12 | Startled by a lance accidentally falling on a helmet , he attacked his own men , killing four , and could not be disarmed until he was exhausted . |
| 13 | And he attacked his own party 's scheme to house mentally handicapped in the community . |
| 14 | He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses . |
| 15 | ‘ Look , he faked his own death , Ari . |
| 16 | In Sliwa 's last stunt he faked his own kidnapping and blamed it on off-duty police officers . |
| 17 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 18 | He met his own fate when the wizard Thomas of Ercildoune instructed Soulis 's enemies how to capture him and boil him to death in a cauldron on the Nine Stane Rig , a Bronze Age stone circle which can be reached by a scramble up the hillside above the modern B6399 between Newcastleton and Hawick . |
| 19 | But fame was put into context for Bernie when he met his own hero , the legendary Blues guitarist , BB King . |
| 20 | He fought his own despairs and his own bitternesses , and he had believed that he had built up an inner tranquillity and a strength , so that he was armoured against the lure of any woman . |
| 21 | The founder of the papal reform , Pope Leo IX , had been a warrior as well as a devoted bishop before he became pope , and he led his own troops against the Normans in south Italy . |
| 22 | He constantly screamed and shouted abuse at his parents and had violent temper tantrums when he would indulge in physical aggression , hitting and punching people and furniture , and screaming at the top of his voice until he got his own way . |
| 23 | He did n't care how he got his own way as long as his own way was what he got . |
| 24 | He got his own back by playing tricks on it . |
| 25 | Erm he got his own interest er and in the end he decided on all his own stuff like you know . |
| 26 | Maybe that was how he got his own way ? |
| 27 | Ian took the others to the baths to practice canoeing skills , Eskimo rolls and so on , and later he got his own boats out of the garage and we canoed the Otago harbour , very beautiful in the evening sunlight at low tide . |
| 28 | His reserve broke before he had got far and he revealed his own grievance . |
| 29 | Now that he owned his own studio by the banks of the River Colne he could play the mogul to the technicians , artists and directors he had gathered there . |
| 30 | He owned his own large home and had plenty of capital . |