Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] his own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However he remains unseen because Sauron can not pierce the shadows he made for his own defence . |
| 2 | The banister of the back staircase has the same pattern as the glazing bars of a glass-fronted cabinet Lutyens designed for his own house . |
| 3 | The first house he built for his own occupation was a stopgap , put up to live in until something more suitable was acquired . |
| 4 | Eadberht abdicated of his own accord in 758 , handing the kingdom over to his son , Oswulf , and becoming a cleric at York ( where he died in 768 ) , but Oswulf was killed within the year by his own household in 759 near the unidentified settlement of Methel Wongtun and replaced by Aethelwald Moll , who is likely to have been associated with those who were responsible for Oswulf 's murder ; nor did Eadberht 's descendants recover royal power for twenty years . |
| 5 | On their way to the top the Gunners , in their new red and white shirts , had given the crowd plenty of thrills , including a classic contest at Villa Park where they were beaten 5–3 after twice being in the lead , and a 3–3 draw at home to Derby in which Roberts twice headed into his own net . |
| 6 | Quickly he moved into his own room , grabbed his pyjama top and returned . |
| 7 | TRAGIC pilot Ken McWhinney died at the controls of the plane he lovingly built with his own hands . |
| 8 | He was therefore scowling as he bumped into his own wife , who was coming out of the Russell Inn just as he was entering . |
| 9 | Benedict rose from his own chair so hastily that it almost tipped over . |
| 10 | Che Guevara , whose analysis stemmed from his own experiences in Guatemala in 1954 ( Hodges : 1977 , pp. 15–16 ) , said , in an interview given on 18 April 1959 : |
| 11 | But though the stream rose on his own land , he had not obtained the proper extraction licence and so got the water free . |
| 12 | Nigel always worked best when he drew on his own life . |
| 13 | Relying on the Bible , Roman law , and the classics to explain what ought to be , John also drew on his own experience to describe the contemporary scene . |
| 14 | Harthacnut chose to remain there , presumably because he was exercised by the threat which Magnus posed to his own position , and this left Harold Harefoot , Cnut 's other son by Ælfgifu of Northampton , to dispute the English throne with his half-brother 's supporters , headed by Queen Emma and Earl Godwin . |
| 15 | He demanded the removal of the permanent secretary to the Treasury , Sir Robert ( later Baron ) Chalmers [ q.v. ] , and he countermanded on his own authority a Treasury request for the transfer of gold from Canada . |
| 16 | Keith shouted to his own man . |
| 17 | Turner concentrated on his own task . |
| 18 | The proctologist hooted at his own wit before asking which of my father 's famous wives was my mother . |
| 19 | In his life he had risen from being a poor farm boy to become the wealthy entrepreneurial head of a vast business conglomerate , all of it created by his own acumen , and had established a dynasty which still ranks high on the world 's ladder of wealth and social standing . |
| 20 | He told of his own difficulties in finding time to read all the variable essays submitted and knew of many that were never sent in at all . |
| 21 | " He came of his own accord . " |
| 22 | Communication was the basis of his work ; he invited contributions from those with particular expertise and these he collated with his own experience in the most comprehensive form to present a reliable work of reference . |
| 23 | Paul Walsh floated in a dangerous cross which the hapless Robinson diverted into his own net with a powerful diving header any striker would have been proud of . |
| 24 | Though he had lived for weeks for this hour he now felt a wild surge of resentment towards McQuaid as he came into his own house . |
| 25 | He studied in his own land " under the ulema of his time " and is said to have studied under Seyyid Serif ( d. 816/1413–14 ) . |
| 26 | Felipe blamed himself for Ana 's blindness and he suffered in his own cold , imperious way . |
| 27 | One man who had got himself clear in that way drove in his own carriage by the very commissioners to whom he had but lately surrendered , and splashed both them and his creditors with the dirt of his chariot wheels . |
| 28 | Now , for the first time , domestic happiness seemed within his own reach . |
| 29 | In emphasising the place which the child played in his own learning process , Plowden was not covering new ground . |
| 30 | Perhaps that came from his own experience of human love — we do n't really know . |