Example sentences of "his [det] [noun pl] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | It was one of his few boasts that he had never taken an academic examination in his life . |
2 | While still learning , to swim or drive a car or speak a foreign language , he does have to think out what to do next , but it is when he comes to trust his own reflexes that he will have mastered the skill . |
3 | Once again each man visited with his own buddies that they 'd gone through training with here in the States , so we feel very much attached to the Hundredth Bomb Group and . |
4 | And in spite of his own protestations that he could n't begin to do it , everybody pressed him , including Madame Dietrich , including the Baron 's wife , and she charmed him . |
5 | In 58 ‘ your slave ’ , ‘ your vassal ’ is ready to swallow any insult or neglect , the poem concluding : The second-person pronouns come so thick and fast here that we can not miss the bitter criticism of the Friend setting himself up as a law unto himself , becoming so entirely obsessed with his own pleasures that he betrays their relationship . |
6 | Such objective reporting offsets his own recollections that he ‘ never was a teenager , ’ and recalling only sexual feelings . |