Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] his [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library .
2 He obviously had his own reasons for wanting you to believe he owned Seawitch .
3 Throughout he fiercely defended his own actions and was at pains to explain why he did not quit as many had said he should immediately after Black Wednesday .
4 It was the greatness of the ancient empire to which the Shah was attracted and with which he constantly compared his own achievements and ambitions .
5 It also shaped his own priorities : in 1958 , he returned not just with the aim of saving France 's honour , but with a clear vision of a new regime that he intended to found as well as a hard-won wisdom about how best to realize his vision .
6 He also analysed his own dreams and from these studies developed his theories .
7 He even made his own plans to help plot escape routes .
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