Example sentences of "his [det] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This news was passed to his people , who burned his few possessions and redistributed his livestock . |
| 2 | Joseph , who paid her no wages and feared increasingly ( Alice had been a most unexpected reprieve ) that his goldmine was sure to be removed from his use , could ape his former threats but do nothing . |
| 3 | In certain circumstances the speaker becomes his own listener and reinforces his own verbal behaviour . " |
| 4 | Miles powered up the starpod 's sensor arrays , enhancing his own senses and sending them arcing out into space in search of the planet of his birth . |
| 5 | Whoever killed him got rid of his own clothes and put them on the body afterwards . ’ |
| 6 | The third , ‘ How I See Philosophy ’ ( 1956 ) , distinguished philosophical arguments from deductive demonstrations of theses and instead illustrated how to treat philosophical problems on the model of psychoanalysis ; the patient must acknowledge his own difficulties and dissolve his problems by coming to view things in new ways . |
| 7 | He could draw on his own bank a cheque payable in his own currency and despatch it to the exporter . |
| 8 | ‘ No , he usually brings his own lunch and eats it here . ’ |
| 9 | Bawden loved his own work and found it soothing to live surrounded by it . |
| 10 | The manservant , Wu , took me in hand in his own way and gave me makeup lessons . |
| 11 | Instead you see before you an individual who at last is his own boss and follows his own inclination . |
| 12 | In 1948 he moved to the ancient house of Daneway , near Sapperton , where he ground his own flour , baked his own bread and made his own paper on which to print his poems on his own press . |
| 13 | Among other things he chastises Renault for their failure to respond to BMW 's challenge which led to him losing the 1983 world championship , chides Dennis for his lack of punctuality and disinterest in anything that is not his own idea and expresses his admiration and respect for Niki Lauda , with whom he was partnered in 1984 . |
| 14 | We are committed , morally and politically , to treating everyone as free , with a right to see things from his own standpoint and make his own decisions . |
| 15 | When he thought one might be possible , he was immensely sentimental , would give up everything for a lover ; yet it was his own exigence that made it difficult for anyone to live up to him , to match his quick apprehension , his wide range of interests , the fervour with which he experienced everything . |
| 16 | The point that no one in government seems to have grasped is that the businessman who spots what he thinks is a gap in the market and retools his factory , only to find that he has made an error of judgment , loses his own money and learns his lesson . |
| 17 | Month 1 Bert put in £9,000 of his own money and transferred his own car into the name of the business . |
| 18 | If the joint tenancy between the husband and wife has been severed , it will have been possible for the husband to mortgage his own share or settle it upon certain trusts . |
| 19 | Diogenes , instead of building his own success and fulfilling himself , did the opposite and stripped himself of all pride so that there was no way anyone could hurt him . |
| 20 | L.G. would have left such a detail to a secretary but S.B. likes to write his own cheques and address his own envelopes . |
| 21 | He wanted to go there once more and start out again choosing his own route and finding his own freedom . |
| 22 | The guy let him carry his own case and led him through into the concourse where the English driver from the Embassy pool was waiting . |
| 23 | He invariably believed completely in his own case and pursued it relentlessly to the end . |
| 24 | Play may also serve ‘ the individual child in working through his own problems or fulfilling his wishes at the fantasy level ’ ( ibid . |
| 25 | Absent-mindedly , Jackie licked his own fingers and ran them round the plate by the bed , picking up the crumbs which he transferred to his tongue . |
| 26 | The relationship protected Ford from some of the more severe consequences of his own activities and allowed him to prolong his plotting long after the king 's cause was effectively lost . |
| 27 | He could not have borne a mirror in the room with him now , for fear of what he might see ; in his heart he knew that it would be unrecognisable , as he failed to recognise the turmoil of his own feelings as having anything to do with the self he had always known . |
| 28 | The average business traveller , who does n't pay his own bills or make his own booking , will plump for that option in preference to a detour down a country lane or through suburbs in search of some unknown quantity which might turn out to be a gem . |
| 29 | Floy thought that , even if they broke into a gallop ( which he was not at all sure about doing ) , Balor would simply increase his own pace and catch them very easily . |
| 30 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |