Example sentences of "his own [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 2 | As soon as the first ring sounded he knew she was not there , that the sound of the telephone was reverberating through empty rooms , as lost and desolate as wind crying across a salt marsh , as hopeless as he felt his own heart to be . |
| 3 | Only the duke of Normandy presumed to make this explicit , allowing his own name to be introduced into the chant after the prayers for the French king , so that the congregation called on the great warrior saints to guarantee the duke 's safety and perpetual peace . |
| 4 | It was largely his own determination to be rid of the tag of illness that brought eventual healing . |
| 5 | There was very little of his own faith to be seen in the city , even if he had wished to become involved . |
| 6 | Had n't he his own bed to be going home to ? ’ |
| 7 | This is true especially of the story of his own call to be a disciple , which he has copied from Mark . |
| 8 | On the advice of Lyell and Hooker he arranged for an account of his own theory to be published alongside Wallace 's paper by the Linnean Society of London . |
| 9 | But the 29-year-old centre-half explained how he had been the victim of his own eagerness to be involved in the Kop cause , despite a virus problem . |
| 10 | DEFENCES Clive Greenacre , in his distrust , used his wife 's agoraphobia as a defence against his own need to be sure of her being safely where he left her . |
| 11 | He told the Professor then of his own ambition to be admitted to Oxford , of his financial difficulties , of the need to be near his mother . |
| 12 | The archers loosed blind in the darkness , but could do so only once without imperilling their friends , for after the shock of meeting it was stark hand to hand work without any daylight art about it , first a hacking and swinging ahead at any flesh that moved , then body to body fumbling where everyone panted out words in his own tongue to be safe from his comrades , and even swords were of little use . |