Example sentences of "and his own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BUCKINGHAM PALACE 12 October : His Excellency Senhor Luis Neto-Kiambata was received in audience by The Prince of Wales and The Prince Edward , Counsellors of State acting on behalf of The Queen , and presented the Letters of Recall of his predecessor and his own Letters of Credence as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the People 's Republic of Angola to the Court of St James 's . |
| 2 | The psycho-therapist , social worker or social reformer , concerned only with his own clients and their grievance against society , perhaps takes a view comparable to the private citizen of Venice who concerns himself only with the safety of his own dwelling and his own ability to get about the city . |
| 3 | Dairying in particular occupied the second Earl 's attention and his own dairy herds were a lifelong passion . |
| 4 | The tragedy must rest solely on the simple problem of the relation between his intense loyalty to his followers and to his lord , and his own pride as the supreme warrior . |
| 5 | He received no pay for being the treasurer and his own debt continued to escalate , so he used the fund account to ease his financial situation . |
| 6 | My God , he thought , Edwina Currie a whip , and his own secretary given the once over by ‘ Worthy ’ Evans . |
| 7 | The captain of the St Louis , while distrustful of both local politicians and his own shipping line , was convinced at least of one thing : that if Cuba proved inaccessible , the United States , to which most of his passengers had the right of eventual entry , would surely accept them earlier than promised . |
| 8 | Paul knows , not only from pre-conversion experience but , as a careful reading of Romans 7 will show , from painful experience of struggle and failure as a Christian , that when he relies on himself and his own resources ( such seems to be the nuance of ‘ I of myself ’ in Romans 7:25 ) , he remains subject to the law of sin . |
| 9 | In Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exporters ) Ltd v Guinle [ 1978 ] 3 WLR 116 whilst managing director of the plaintiffs and without their knowledge or consent , the defendant placed orders for the benefit of himself and his own company with the plaintiffs ' suppliers . |
| 10 | Working alongside other pioneers he was first spontaneously discovering new possibilities in camera technique and then he found that he could equally spontaneously draw on his experiences and his own values . |
| 11 | George made two or three telephone calls from the nearest box , handed over the minute inspection of Orlando Benyon 's shed to the appropriate people , made contact with the police pathologist and his own chief at C.I.D . |
| 12 | Indeed , his stern morality and adherence to the ideals of classical republicanism , as mediated through such writers as Algernon Sidney and his own uncle by marriage , Henry Neville [ qq.v. ] , made him almost an archetypal ‘ country ’ member , and he was quickly to the forefront in the agitations against a standing army and political corruption in general . |
| 13 | He jerked the attendant 's whole body and his own head to indicate the kitchen around them . |
| 14 | Arkwright also built many of the three-storey stone houses in the village for his workers , as well as the church , school and his own home , Willersley Castle , known locally as Arkwright Hall . |
| 15 | Since then , since the whole-hearted and selfless manner in which she had helped him , and had comforted him after Effie 's death — he remembered her saying gently to him when he had railed against Fate and his own incompetence , ‘ Do n't , Dr Neil , do n't . |
| 16 | Party colleagues , notably Mr Singh , deserted him , and his own reputation was tarnished by allegations that he had taken bribes from Bofors , a Swedish arms company . |
| 17 | He never spoke a truer word ; upholding the honour of the union and his own reputation was a worthy enough objective , but it was also ruinously expensive and very largely self defeating . |
| 18 | He was concerned , as always , about Morgan Forster 's health and his own sister Nancy 's extravagance . |
| 19 | The surviving building accounts and his own drawings make clear that he was responsible for the execution and design of this remarkable house between 1580 and 1588 . |
| 20 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 21 | It is as if the Poet were concentrating so strongly on giving an adequate image of the Friend that he ceases to think about himself and his own unworthiness by comparison . |
| 22 | Although closely linked with the marathon racing side , he has only done a couple of races and his own paddling has mostly been recreational . |
| 23 | The twelve to fifteen thousand volumes , together with periodicals and his own notes , will be lodged at the Bibliothèque Nationale . |
| 24 | Mrs Noble , he said , thought him completely immoral and his own parents were chary of allowing Helen to visit him in his study bedroom at Shelgate Road as she used to do , although , he informed Harry , ‘ Mother knows Helen so well and likes her so much . ’ |
| 25 | He suggest that behind Raskolnikov 's sister 's loathing of him there lurks attraction , and he states flatly that she and his own wife were once in love with each other ; and perhaps he is right . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not assuming anything , ’ he said , and his own voice was surprisingly unruffled . |
| 27 | ‘ Bon ! ’ as he pushed back his chair after a meal and made for the stairs and his own preoccupations . |
| 28 | Drawing upon this European research and his own observations in the United States , the American diplomat George Perkins Marsh ( 1801–82 ) wrote his Man and Nature of 1864 to warn of the dangers . |
| 29 | The pathologists ' evidence and his own observations suggested that James ‘ came by the fatal aspects of his injuries at some time in the early evening on Friday ’ . |
| 30 | He divided his force into three , one division under Fraser to sack the village and set it on fire ; one under the Border chiefs to round up all the cattle and stock they could find in the vicinity — they were the experts at this ; and his own grouping to encircle the castle and at least present Dacre and Balliol with a challenge . |