Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may prefer his own assessment of the patient 's interests , and ignore that of the parent or guardian . |
| 2 | A worker may be required to live in tied accommodation as a condition of employment or he may make his own decision to do so . |
| 3 | He so enjoyed them that Minton suggested he should write his own . |
| 4 | ‘ The experience was certainly salutary , ’ wrote Niki , adding that what he learned was that he should trust his own judgement , that engineers get carried away and some drivers do n't understand their cars . |
| 5 | The first , a deep and strong desire , was that he should win his own mandate from the people . |
| 6 | He should take his own route in his own time and avoid the tendency to see through others ' eyes . |
| 7 | Now he must face his own suffering |
| 8 | But if he had no bill and or did n't pick it up , you 'd tell the proprietor that he must take his own proceedings — he 's swindled you out of the price of a meal and it 's a civil action . |
| 9 | If a German resident wishes to acquire a dollar deposit balance , he must sell his own DM deposit balance to an American ( in reality the dollars could be purchased from a non-US resident ) . |
| 10 | But now we are one again he 'll expect his own personal maid , cook and bottle-washer . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'll run his own shop one day , maybe even more than one , believe me . ’ |
| 12 | Without the imperative of obedience , albeit lovingly enforced , the child may come to conclude that if he holds out for long enough , demanding his own will , he 'll get his own way in the end . |
| 13 | But Coffin no longer disliked this ; he might let his own hair lengthen . |
| 14 | Mrs Winterton invited Mr Major to view the exhibition privately so he could reach his own informed conclusion about what action needed to be taken to clean up ‘ this free market in filth ’ . |
| 15 | Well he could bring his own bloody milk in ca n't he ? |
| 16 | He could build his own Government with few debts or commitments . |
| 17 | The gleam in the missionary 's eye suggested that Jaq 's account of how much he could perceive — ‘ Even to a glimpse of the Emperor 's beacon ? ’ — and of how he could hide his own spark of phosphorescence , meant that this lad was singularly blessed . |
| 18 | Later , talking to his teacher after a year and two terms at Cedars , it seemed that Balbinder 's conversational language was developing well ; he could hold his own in a small group often initiating topics of interest , describing , explaining and enquiring . |
| 19 | Deep as a well , and for all his strength and prowess — for he could hold his own with any boy of his age , afoot or on horseback , when he chose — looking and bearing himself like a clerk , and sometimes even like a clerk in orders . |
| 20 | He had to have space around him — and he could create his own space — and then he could work . |
| 21 | He picked up the papers he had discarded and laid them out so that he could check his own reports while Coy spoke to him . |
| 22 | He could smell his own burned flesh on them , could see blackened streamers of skin sticking to the metal . |
| 23 | So he had to stand there , in the office of the Roadworking Operatives Supervisor in the Islington Council Seven Sisters Road Highways Department Depot , sweating like a pig and wondering why they did n't just get on with it and sack him as he listened to Mr Smith and his eyes hurt and he could smell his own body-odour again . |
| 24 | Or he could start his own venue , impose his own narrow-minded door policy and see how few people turn up and how few bands agree to play . |
| 25 | Or he could start his own venue , impose his own narrow-minded door policy and see how few people turn up and how few bands agree to play . |
| 26 | He could forget his own terror in this new danger , and he worked all night with the crowd , shouting , running and working together to stop the flames destroying more buildings . |
| 27 | When his mother took him to school on the first day , he decided from then onwards he could make his own way to school and did n't hesitate in telling his mother just that . |
| 28 | Turning the big key in the back door and easing up the latch , Mungo began to feel free , as though now he could make his own rules and ignore the restrictions imposed by daylight . |
| 29 | Altogether Baldwin , like most Prime Ministers who succeed a member of their own party during a Parliament , felt that he would be happier and stronger if he could make his own Cabinet afresh , and yet was inhibited from so doing . |
| 30 | Like any office holder , he could appoint his own deputy . |