Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the kind of man who absorbed ideas unconsciously , made them his own , and pushed them to new limits . |
| 2 | " He carried off his subjects ' wives , daughters and kinswomen by force and made them his concubines ; when he had sated his own lust on them he handed them down for his soldiers to enjoy . |
| 3 | Tremayne lent me his Volvo to go to the boatyard in the morning , reminding me before I set off that it was the day of the awards dinner at which he was to be honoured . |
| 4 | ‘ One of the bosses lent me his Jaguar Sovereign XJ6 for a week when my car broke down , ’ said Pete . |
| 5 | ‘ And he lent me his boat for a family outing . |
| 6 | Finally I saw shapes of valleys , hills , crags , the white flash of waterfalls and then after Bill Robins lent me his binoculars , even houses , mostly thatched with palms or with roofs of red corrugated iron , the trademark of Polynesia , with the occasional roof of startling white . |
| 7 | He sat beside me and lent me his shoulder as a back-rest . |
| 8 | Immediately he lent me his support , his judgement and helped me find a publisher , putting me in touch with Jan Martens and the Fonds Mercator which publish admirable art books . |
| 9 | I taught for a term at a crammer half a mile from my home , and instead of passing lazy days with charming children whose actively hatted mothers would smile , condescend and yet flirt during some endless pollen-spattered sports day , I spent my time with the son of the local bookmaker ( he lent me his bike : I crashed it ) and the daughter of the suburb 's solicitor . |
| 10 | Anyway , he 's alright by me cos he lent me his Porsche . |
| 11 | In Primary Three I fell in love with another boy because he lent me his ‘ Lo-lo Ball ’ and I thought this meant love ! |
| 12 | And er of course as I tell you , I finished when I was thirteen years old and I was on this er bottle washing stunt and o one chap as lived next door to us , back at er at Road he got me his this job on the farm . |
| 13 | And if I 'm friendly towards you in future , you 'll remind yourself , ‘ That man nearly made me his mistress — I must be ice-cold to him , ’ and ice-cold is what you 'll be . ’ |
| 14 | There was a lot to do , and Mr. Andrew made me his secretary . |
| 15 | Twice he passed me his pipe to cut the ends of my suture and on one occasion I found myself trying in the dim light to thread the silk through his reaming tool . |
| 16 | Waaagh ! ’ — Jack leaned forward and passed me his handkerchief . |
| 17 | ‘ You provided him his death , others have provided him a grave . |
| 18 | ‘ To do strict justice , ’ said Isambard equably , ‘ John the Fletcher provided him his death , and Benedetta procured him to do it . |
| 19 | His wife , an Italian American girl , bore him his handicapped daughter Tiffany , now 25 , and his only child . |
| 20 | When I found him his body was sprawled over the stool . ’ |
| 21 | Dickins , a £200,000 signing from Lincoln on transfer deadline day , owed his debut to the thigh injury to Bobby Mimms , which cost him his ever-present record . |
| 22 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 23 | Another deaf man , a David Bedwell who had partial hearing , enlisted in the Army Service Corps as a driver , and his deafness cost him his life when he failed to hear three challenges as he was approaching the gates of a barracks . |
| 24 | The tragedy of the whole affair becomes so pathetic as we realise that Coleen does love him and only a delay of post cost him his life . |
| 25 | In next to no time a puncture cost him his lead and a further 11 seconds . |
| 26 | The Leeds striker 's world fell apart when a hamstring injury cost him his first-ever place in a senior England squad in Spain tomorrow . |
| 27 | He was not wholly a man of nostalgia , and the road accident which cost him his son at the age of 21 all but destroyed his religious faith . |
| 28 | Coupled with his backing for the Beeching report , however , it cost him his seat . |
| 29 | But the momentary paralysis and the matter of seconds it took him to unwind and cast off the incubus cost him his chance . |
| 30 | It cost him his papers , the Czechs bounced them in 1981 while Dr. Tomlin was visiting fellow academics in Oxford . |