Example sentences of "[prep] his [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out his own money . |
| 2 | Hunt was in his first season with McLaren when his talent influenced them to sign him as leader , after his former team , Hesketh , folded at the end of 1975 . |
| 3 | POLICE last night were hunting for a 31-year-old man after his former girlfriend was found strangled and their toddler son missing . |
| 4 | ‘ You screwing the IRA and Daddy boring Mummy and me over the roast beef with what a socialist champion you were , daughter after his own heart . ’ |
| 5 | If Pound in this way did bypass Aubeterre , he missed something after his own heart . |
| 6 | Because , when he 'd seen Olivier , just after 1945 , had n't he said there was a man after his own heart ? |
| 7 | In Admiral [ later Admiral of the Fleet ] , George Lord Anson , Pitt had a First Lord of the Admiralty after his own heart , a resolute professional who had been a captain at 27 . |
| 8 | He defied his mother so that he could link his parents ' telephone line to his terminal after his own phone was cut off , James Richardson , prosecuting , said at Southwark Crown Court . |
| 9 | The years hold little joy for Jacob , who meets a crooked dealer after his own kind in his uncle Laban . |
| 10 | Or from choosing after his own kind ? |
| 11 | He remains to look after his own infants and strikes a ‘ bargain ’ with the newcomer so that , while he remains sexually inactive , he assists his victorious opponent in preventing yet further take-overs of the unit . |
| 12 | To the man of reason , that as a physically and mentally distinct person he should look after his own interests seems self-evident like a geometrical axiom , that he should care for others seems to require proof like a theorem . |
| 13 | Now , in accepting Tully 's offer , the defendant was not protecting his master 's interests … [ he ] was placing himself in a position in which there was a conflict of interests between him and his principal and he was looking after his own interests to the detriment of his master 's interests . |
| 14 | Anselm found this retreat difficult to accept ; after his own loyalty to the terms of the papal decree , the pope 's vacillation and suggestion of over-reaction on Anselm 's part must have been hard to swallow . |
| 15 | Then , still smiling , Isambard forced the boy 's wrists together , enclosed and held them mercilessly in one lean , muscular hand , and with the other picked up the dagger and tossed it after his own sword . |
| 16 | Lord Spens , awarded legal aid after his own funds ran out in 1990 , said yesterday , on hearing of Mr Seelig 's prospects of retrieving some funds : ‘ Good luck to him . |
| 17 | After his own area , the Pan-American Union , had failed to support him , he claimed to suffer a heart attack in the middle of the meeting and was taken to a local hospital . |
| 18 | After his own death the Daily Sketch made reference to a large three-quarter-length self-portrait which Minton painted this year and which he afterwards destroyed . |
| 19 | Noell was survived by five sons , two daughters , and his wife Elizabeth who died two weeks after his own death . |
| 20 | Of particular importance is the mention of transverse flutes : the inventories of the workshop of Nicolas Hotteterre , Martin 's cousin ( one in 1708 made after the death of his wife and the other in 1727 after his own death ) , do not specify them ; the first reads ‘ hautbois , flutes [ recorders ] , and other imperfect instruments valued together for the sum of 88 livres ’ and the second lists ‘ two dozen of which are fluttes [ sic ] as well as hautbois priced 24 livres ’ . |
| 21 | It had been Campion Price , her father , who , disappointed that his firstborn had not been the male he 'd intended naming after his own father , had insisted she bore the feminine version of that name — Georgina . |
| 22 | Choking back his disappointment after his own team 's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa , he said : ‘ I 've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side . |
| 23 | Why ca n't this Sebastian look after his own dog ? ’ |
| 24 | A child who has always looked after his own asthma is less likely to rebel later and discard inhalers or start smoking . |
| 25 | He did n't tell us how much money he earns and he did n't tell us how much money he gave his wife when he was married to her and was looking after his own children . |
| 26 | Cripps denied that the books had been improperly kept , saying that an accounts clerk had been appointed to look after them after his own health had broken down in 1917 . |
| 27 | This requires the individual to give up his right to free use of some or all NHS services and instead to look after his own health needs , either in the private sector or by paying the NHS . |
| 28 | Between 1920 and 1923 the two-acre site was transformed following his own ideas as well as a design by H. M. Baillie Scott of the Arts and Crafts Movement , whose work Wade greatly admired . |
| 29 | The ex-abbe , possibly with tongue-in-cheek considering his own record , suggested the subject of Don Juan , the archetypal libertine , and dropped other projects to begin work immediately . |
| 30 | Now , with Liza gone , she felt she would be able to mourn Tom 's passing in her own quiet way for , despite his many failures as a husband , she had been deeply attached to him . |