Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's given me his home number . ’ |
| 2 | Also , he had given me his number in Rio . |
| 3 | ‘ Surprisingly enough , Old Red has not given me his reasons . |
| 4 | I 'll tell you give him a ring , tell him that you 've given me his , the telephone number and he should expect that I 'll give him a call in the next week |
| 5 | So Emma 's given me his present to drop round , ha |
| 6 | He demanded a refund from the first agents but they refused , arguing that because he had given them his credit card number he had entered into a contract . |
| 7 | That maturity has won him his first TV starring role in ITV 's new £2 million , three-part drama serial The Blackheath Poisonings which starts on Monday . |
| 8 | And his own man in Atlanta , where his straight talking and his independence had won him his next posting . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was this willingness , free from any sense of banality , to dress traditional teaching in modern cliché , which had won him his bishopric . |
| 11 | Surely it was what he had seen as her present stupidity that had earned her his contempt , since the past was the past , and she was still reluctant to explain anything more than the absolute minimum necessary to put an end to his increasingly unbearable taunts . |
| 12 | In fact , ‘ Damnation Derek ’ is a Christian who believes in ‘ Witnessing ’ and it is this simple , even commendable desire to tell others about God and all things Christian that has earned him his nickname ( 'Damnation' is n't his real name — in case you thought he had very unloving parents ! ) and which has made him a Playground Health Hazard . |
| 13 | In fact Bowe , the giggling assassin from Mike Tyson 's hometown of Brownsville , has stopped all but four opponents in an unbeaten 31-fight career that has earned him his right to challenge Evander Holyfield for the world heavyweight title here on Friday . |
| 14 | Once asked many years ago by a visiting American Congresswoman what it was like having a woman leader , Grunte had replied that it was like being at home all day , a bon mot that had earned him his place in ‘ Sayings of the Week ’ . |
| 15 | Smith had lent me his very able stenographer and we worked until dawn , when the memorandum was typed and ready for me to take to Smith first thing in the morning . |
| 16 | ‘ The friend who 's lent me his flat likes his privacy . ’ |
| 17 | He had never pretended to love her and it was her misfortune that the time that had meant nothing to him had made her his forever . |
| 18 | Her mother and father , or the young man who had made her his easy prey ? |
| 19 | She had made him his favourite bottom pie and onions for supper that evening when he came in from the fishing , and he had gone back down to Mother Russell 's after , for a few ales . |
| 20 | It was now four months since the twin , Judd , had been killed and , so Harry had explained , Mr Harvey had felt it his duty to find out whether , now his son was dead , the family title would die with him or , as he now seemed to think , it could be passed through the distaff side to his daughter . |
| 21 | But he has made it his business to master the terminology of the economic debate , and applied to the problem an elegant and sophisticated technique of intellectual biography . |
| 22 | Sir Adrian found this work fascinating and would have been perfectly happy at the time to have made it his long-standing job . |
| 23 | Since John 's death , however , one of his younger cousins , Robin Cranko , has made it his business to search out the beginnings of the family . |
| 24 | ‘ No one has made it his own and that 's why the sleectors have chosen three of us for the training trip to Lanzarote . |
| 25 | Like a great many others in Tollemarche , he had made it his goal and his God . |
| 26 | After a dinner at the famous Kaiserhof Hotel , chosen because Hitler had made it his headquarters before he came to power , the Joyces went back to a party at the Reichsrundfunk building . |
| 27 | " The killer would have made it his business to get here early this morning , assuming that he did n't know that his plan had misfired . |
| 28 | Although it had come as a shock , for he had never made it his business to enquire into the ramifications of his family , he had found a morbid humour in the situation . |
| 29 | The girl , whose name was Marion , was now a magistrate , and a grandmother , but the escapade had sharpened the young Grunte 's appetites and he had made it his business in the intervening years to keep up what he cheerfully called ‘ my rate of strike ’ . |
| 30 | The headmaster of Cranborne School had made it his business , during Robert 's nine years in the place , to make sure that other people did the crying . |