Example sentences of "of his own [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 2 | There was very little of his own faith to be seen in the city , even if he had wished to become involved . |
| 3 | This is true especially of the story of his own call to be a disciple , which he has copied from Mark . |
| 4 | He told the Professor then of his own ambition to be admitted to Oxford , of his financial difficulties , of the need to be near his mother . |
| 5 | But the 29-year-old centre-half explained how he had been the victim of his own eagerness to be involved in the Kop cause , despite a virus problem . |
| 6 | On the advice of Lyell and Hooker he arranged for an account of his own theory to be published alongside Wallace 's paper by the Linnean Society of London . |