Example sentences of "[pers pn] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opens to you his sacred heart . |
| 2 | If your mail to a debtor is returned with this notation and he has forgotten to leave you his new address all is not lost . |
| 3 | ‘ Hang around here at this time of night , and some sex-starved male might decide to make you his first prize . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Looks like you 're right about there being a new man at the top , ’ said Carradine , ‘ and he 's just paid you his friendly compliments . ’ |
| 5 | J. J. has just shown you his one real skill — the way he can judge the mood of an audience and play it like a violin . |
| 6 | and he 'll show you his eloquent brown-and-lilac bottom . |
| 7 | ‘ Ask him to show you his Swiss Army knife later , ’ I laugh , feeling a little treacherous . |
| 8 | ‘ Your father repealed the law making you his natural successor once he realized you 'd never follow in his footsteps . |
| 9 | Joseph can tell you his own story ’ . |
| 10 | I must not stay to tell you his sweet sayings , save one . |
| 11 | Speich said , ‘ The Colonel has been showing you his human heads , yes ? ’ |
| 12 | Did Tony tell you his purple knight joke ? |
| 13 | well I , I 'll give him his due old er who is it ? |
| 14 | It was Mrs Robinson who served him his late breakfast and it took no more than the tapping of an eggshell to discover from that guileless woman that her husband had gone down to Lorton with goats ' cheese and potted char for the market men who called there on a Thursday . |
| 15 | One film , however , Now Barabbas Was A Robber , directed by Gordon Parry from the play by William Douglas Home , brought him his best review yet from the finest film critic of her day , C. A. Lejeune , in The Observer . |
| 16 | Apparently Dr. Lorrimer did n't take him his early tea this morning and it looks as if he did n't come home last night . |
| 17 | He pushed through the door of the Deputy Chief of Staff , who at that time was General Neil Ritchie , and handed him his pencil-written memorandum . |
| 18 | But the careers office told him his poor sight ruled him out , a Winchester inquest heard yesterday . |
| 19 | It was his battalion 's heroic defence of their positions on the Basra to Baghdad road , when the rats from Iran had swarmed in their thousands from the marshlands , that had given him his present renown . |
| 20 | Wanting Rudd to apply his mind to motor racing again , Chapman gave him his famous 27-page handwritten list of ‘ things he needed to know for F1 ’ . |
| 21 | Beneath a cocked hat somewhat too big for him his small face , pale despite the sun of a whole Mediterranean summer , was much more calm and composed than that of the man behind him . |
| 22 | I gave him his four sugars . |
| 23 | Despite the quality of mind which had won him his first-class honours degree and led him to a study of modern philosophical and psychological theory , he rode like a conqueror over the rules of logic and morality . |
| 24 | His secretaryship of the UDC , which he held until his death , cost him his Liberal candidacy and led to six months ' imprisonment for a technical breach of the Defence of the Realm Act . |
| 25 | At the time we first met him his limited confidence in himself had been further undermined by June Braithwaite 's derision of his way of ‘ going on ’ . |
| 26 | The only witnesses had been Sarah 's stepmother , and an ecclesiastic colleague who envied him his good fortune . |
| 27 | He summoned Chamberlain to see him again first thing the next morning and told him his new plan . |
| 28 | Now simply efficient , she finished dressing him , put him into his cot and handed him his final bottle of milk of the day . |
| 29 | And he got his name and he was up in the quarry during the morning and he 's giving him his final warning that if he does that again he 'll book him . |
| 30 | Now , in an ironic reverse , being kept in the cold at Highbury could cost him his international place . |