Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] his own [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach . |
| 2 | Everyone has his own story of being ignored when requesting information and of being left uncertain what to do when things have gone wrong , such as connections lost . |
| 3 | I used his own tie as a tourniquet . |
| 4 | His voice wandered on in the dull , matter-of-fact tones of someone describing his own environment . |
| 5 | I suspect his own memory is a little unreliable ; in his telling he was Martin Ritt 's right-hand man and Sean Connery 's golfing partner after just one week . |
| 6 | I suspect his own life was more than a match for the movies , although he did like to imitate Hopalong Cassidy . |
| 7 | To him , The Waste Land was primarily the desert of extinct emotion , which symbolized his own failure . |
| 8 | Nelson Mandela 's lawyers on Jan. 25 made available to the press copies of a document , originally written by him in prison and given to the then President P. W. Botha in July 1989 , which expressed his own view of the urgent need for the government to negotiate with the ANC . |
| 9 | Orton said that he himself enjoyed his own company . |
| 10 | He was , and for the sum of £1m , Mr Ames found himself running his own business again . |
| 11 | He was only too pleased to print , and to read , other men 's views which strengthened his own position . |
| 12 | In 1977 Caputo published the superb Rumour of War which documented his own combat experiences in Vietnam ; subsequent novels by Caputo revealed as much about his own problems in leaving Vietnam behind as anything else . |
| 13 | On matters where there are social inhibitions about declaring one 's most personal views or experiences , such as in sexual matters , family relationships , social class , religion and perhaps politics , it is obvious that informal interviewing could result in very selective discussions taking place from which the researcher would simply produce the sort of information which suited his own bias . |
| 14 | As he became more independent of booksellers he began to choose works for publication which suited his own taste . |
| 15 | His purpose was not only to prevent his own partisans from uniting to oust him , but also to use the fact that there were differences between them to strengthen his own position . |
| 16 | There is the simple , early but in some areas persistent situation of the independent producer who offers his own work for direct sale . |
| 17 | The only guy who goes his own way is Abede Pele , the Ghanaian who they just let roam free . |
| 18 | ‘ I have a new partner , ’ he announced proudly , ‘ who sold his own tavern near the Barbican and moved across the river to be free from the prying of certain coroners ! ’ |
| 19 | Sometimes this is achieved by a dominant project leader who imposes his own philosophy and then makes many of the decisions leaving only detailing for team members . |
| 20 | ‘ Jaz ’ was one of those people who got his own way . |
| 21 | Each has , as its head , a Secretary of State who heads his own Office , but who is a member of the Cabinet and answerable to Parliament for the discharge of his duties and exercise of his powers . |
| 22 | As a result , chewing gum sellers and the successful carpenter who has his own furniture business , fall within the same category . |
| 23 | But the literal Levi is a writer who has his own way of interesting himself in the contrasts which have been attributed to Babel . |
| 24 | Abraham would seem to be dealing with a God who has his own cruelty , and who can not be relied upon to keep his promises . |
| 25 | The Villa boss , who has his own obsession to win the title after being sacked by United for failing to land the coveted prize , took his Villa players out for a post-Christmas celebration . |
| 26 | Now , the fearful buy their guns from guys like John , who has his own shop and also helps out at a suburban shooting school , the Academy of Marksmanship … |
| 27 | After a bracing day in the Welsh countryside , Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn , Bt , who has his own hunt , was ebullient . |
| 28 | The insider who studies his own society is really the ‘ anthropologist at home ’ and he can not move away . |
| 29 | Royal control over the castellans of the Ile de France was relaxed by Eudes II of Blois , who created his own network of vassals among them ; in the same way , the dukes of Aquitaine attracted the lords of Parthenay to their court , though they were Angevin vassals . |
| 30 | Peter Wynne-Thomas , who created his own archive at Trent Bridge and is now the guardian of Nottinghamshire 's impressive library |