Example sentences of "his own voice " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time we 'd had proper monitors on stage — which meant it was the first time John heard his own voice . |
| 2 | This argument he knew of old was hopeless and he listened to his own voice with a kind of horror as a note of pleading crept into it . |
| 3 | Even a figure more comparable with Lewis , G. K. Chesterton , had at this age published five of his most distinguished books , and discovered his own voice . |
| 4 | It is said that when he heard his own voice on the radio , some seven years after writing this letter , Lewis was surprised and in some measure disconcerted . |
| 5 | He added his own voice as yet another narrator . |
| 6 | Although the passion-merchant , the soul man , is in pursuit of some sort of authenticity , a confirmation of his depth of feeling , his is not his own voice , is rather the convention , a tear-jerk reaction . |
| 7 | Mikhail Gorbachev : ‘ growing more and more fond of his own voice . |
| 8 | Then he said , seriously , in his own voice : ‘ I came out to the Lock because I was worried he might hurt you . ’ |
| 9 | The trick was simple ; he made loops of Western rhythm tracks ( by The B-52s , Talking Heads , The The and many others ) and dubbed his own voice on to them , thus pioneering a sampling technique in the Soviet Union by using only two simple tape recorders . |
| 10 | He remembered the exultation of that dazzle , and then the disappointment , and then the despair , and then his own voice gabbling numbers , and then the oblivion . |
| 11 | He did not want to have to speak for he did not want to hear the sound of his own voice . |
| 12 | He found his own voice , and — thanks to his incredible gift of mimicry — the voices , male and female , of a vast range of different , and vividly differentiated , people . |
| 13 | In November 1911 Chapman added his own voice to many others suggesting plans for restructuring the entire league system . |
| 14 | But even if he knew he was speaking with his own voice , rachmaninov , the eternal doubter , was n't happy with his structural abilities : he authorised the excision of three of the variations and the coda . |
| 15 | It was not his own voice . |
| 16 | He did n't want answers but only the pleasure of his own voice . |
| 17 | With his own voice as back-up , the 36-year-old actor might not seem quite so strained in still milking certain ‘ boyish ’ mannerisms . ’ |
| 18 | The gay Vicar , who loved the sound of his own voice , took a long time over the service and Daisy 's thoughts started to wander . |
| 19 | Seeing as the best thing about Levitation is the way they challenge his previous band 's liabilities , it 's a shame Tel 's still trying to master his own voice , but there 's still time before they release their debut single . |
| 20 | His own voice sounded a long way away , and muffled . |
| 21 | His own voice was low and as cold as steel . |
| 22 | He begins to hear his own voice , echoing the speaker and causing shadowing aloud effects . |
| 23 | He heard his own voice shout : " O dear Lord ! |
| 24 | The Bore likes to hear the sound of his own voice and jumps into each debate at the earliest opportunity , whether he has anything to offer or not . |
| 25 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 26 | In fact he did not ask us any questions at all , but read aloud from Shakespeare , waving his arms dramatically and enjoying the sound of his own voice . |
| 27 | Few words had been spoken — Denis had been glad of his gun 's eloquence as he found his own voice suddenly unreliable . |
| 28 | Someone else who seemed to have no difficulties keeping to schedule was Michael Stein — but then , as Stephen had begun to remark rather acidly , a major part of his job involved sitting on his arse under a convenient fan listening to the sound of his own voice . |
| 29 | He heard his own voice saying over and over , ‘ Germans . |
| 30 | ‘ All right , ’ Hall said , raising his own voice . |