Example sentences of "[pron] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When finally he did broach the subject of the ball , Isobel refused to take his invitation seriously and said he should take someone his own age . |
| 2 | He should pick on someone his own size , not two young kids who were near to tears . |
| 3 | He acknowledged to himself his own share of the blame . |
| 4 | Owen delivered a famous paper to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1841 , in which his brilliant insights into the nature of these fearful elephantine creatures and their relationship to the known animal kingdom had a profound impact on the educated classes of his day . |
| 5 | If we are dealing with a regression to what may be a former lifetime , then , having asked the patient to go back to a period with which his subconscious mind feels comfortable , I like to help him to create the picture of his former personality little by little . |
| 6 | Did Changez have any idea of the reluctance with which his bride-to-be , now moving across to her bookshelf , picking up a book by Kate Millett , staring into it for a few minutes and replacing it after a reproachful and pitying glance from her mother , would be exchanging vows with him ? |
| 7 | He had written The Fall of Robespierre , a verse drama , with Southey in 1794 , and published Poems on Various Subjects in 1796 , the year in which his first son , Hartley Coleridge , was born . |
| 8 | Paragraph 610 of the Bar code provides , first : ’ Counsel must not make statements or ask questions which are merely scandalous or intended or calculated only to vilify insult or annoy either a witness or some other person ; counsel must if possible avoid the naming in open Court of third parties whose characters would thereby be impugned ; counsel must not suggest that a witness or other person is guilty of crime , fraud or misconduct or attribute to another person the crime or conduct of which his lay client is accused ’ |
| 9 | Pringle , 24 , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , was shot by a police marksman three weeks ago after a 47-hour siege in which his 21-year-old ex-girlfriend Leanne Rees was taken hostage . |
| 10 | For thirty years , Clark has been obsessed with sex and death and has achieved some notoriety for his books Tulsa ( 1970 ) and Teenage Lust ( 1984 ) , in which his nude models have portrayed , in turn , lust , despair and boredom . |
| 11 | " Once more we all owe to Ted Dunn a debt of gratitude for another book in which his international vision is grounded in regional reality . " |
| 12 | When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors . |
| 13 | He was good at climbing ; it was a sport in which his small , sinewy build was on his side . |
| 14 | There is now quite a large lump in his groin which his General Practitioner diagnoses as an irreducible right inguinal hernia . |
| 15 | He was soon overpowered with either sleep or cold , when his faithful defendant , who had closely attended to every step , scratched away the snow so as to throw up a sort of protecting wall around his helpless master ; then mounting upon the exposed body , rolled himself round and lay upon his master 's bosom , for which his shaggy coat proved a most seasonable covering and eventual protection during the dreadful severity of the night , the snow falling all the time . |
| 16 | It is a quotation to which the Home Secretary should listen to which his right hon. Friend the Minister of State should reply : ’ Since the Prior Committee 's report was published , the Government 's Public Order Bill ( now the Public Order Act ) has been brought before Parliament . |
| 17 | Brewster was provoked by French suggestions that Newton 's surprisingly voluminous theological studies indicated the extent to which his nervous breakdown of 1692 had left him mentally crippled . |
| 18 | For Schopenhauer , valuable as all the arts were , music was the art which uniquely penetrated the depths of metaphysical reality and expressed the essence of that reality , the will , directly : " the composer reveals the innermost nature of the world and expresses the deepest wisdom in a language which his rational faculty does not understand " , Words , on the other hand , like the instruments of reason that they are , could only intrude from the secondary world of physical phenomena , with which true music was not concerned . |
| 19 | A mystic has to learn to transcend these by means of the special techniques and carefully cultivated attitudes which his spiritual director must teach him . |
| 20 | Although Grant gave evidence in thousands of cases in which his wide experience was invaluable , he will be particularly remembered for the prominent part he played in the exposure of the forged Mussolini and Hitler diaries . |
| 21 | Alexander Macdonald had clearly abandoned much of that hospitable tradition , perhaps owing to his embrace of southern education , or perhaps as a reaction to the affection in which his late brother had been held . |
| 22 | But , more importantly , she was n't safe from herself , from the needs which his merest touch evoked . |
| 23 | His principal claim to recognition is as a scholar and historian of Parliament , using the original documents to which his official positions at the Tower and at Westminster gave him access . |
| 24 | Conroy folded his cap into his pocket and started up the stairs , then pressed against the wall as footsteps clattered down and round the turn came Freddy Pepper himself , big ears and horn-rims that were his trademark , in tennis togs above which his ruddy make-up glowed . |
| 25 | So accustomed to using Conrad 's eyes , Eliot is able to see through Twain 's the native emotion of his own nativity and childhood in the nursery bedroom , seeing that childhood in terms of a fundamental primitivism from which his religious consciousness has grown . |
| 26 | Chris Green announced that NSE had a commitment to quality improvements on all fronts , but with full-blooded business direction aimed at maximising the high profile of the sector , to which his famous red lamp posts gave an immediate impact . |
| 27 | He was indisputably a loyal servant of Edward II , but he was not the will-less , visionless opportunist which his skilful pragmatism may suggest . |
| 28 | Mrs Stych could many times have wept with humiliation when Donna hastened to tell her of yet another minor car accident in which his ancient jalopy had been involved , yet another girl with whom he had once been seen who was ‘ in trouble ’ . |
| 29 | While he was struggling to put things right , and to organise the manufacture of cannon , of which his vast , mainly barefoot , army was desperately short , a large French convoy of 24 ships of the line and ten fireships docked at Bantry Bay , near Cork , bringing welcome supplies and reinforcements . |
| 30 | It was not , however , the luxuriance of his style or language which his former mentor , Louis Dudek , focused on in 1958 , but ‘ the total negation , ’ ‘ the high condition . ’ |