Example sentences of "his [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Executors we 've dealt with and expenses , alterations I 've just dealt with er Oh if you want to change you mind , and remember a will is only a piece of paper until you die , you can change your mind as often as you like I have made a will in the past Four wills in one year for one of my clients , his right he 's perfectly entitled to do that er and it 's better that you alter it frequently if your circumstances change than that you do n't be aware of how things go in the way that you do n't want them do . |
| 2 | Neil 's had his stolen you know ! |
| 3 | Having got to within two of his fifty he slightly misjudged the next short one from Thommo , and had to jerk his head rapidly out of the line of the ball . |
| 4 | And what terrible damage they do , have done through the centuries , from the Inquisitor General to Stalin , to your young neighbour in the IRA who believes in the Catholic God and uses that to justify his murdering you in your bed , to the Mullah who whips up the faithful to civil strife in the name of Allah , to the Moonie who steals your children 's money and affections . |
| 5 | He had his bloody he had his cushion and he had his bloody , you know that one how we got him with his head on his cushion like that ? |
| 6 | At his heaviest he was 18st 3lb , and he lost seven stone in 10 months . |
| 7 | Via the dynamic of the perverse , Faustus violates Christianity in the name and image of Christ ; assimilating Christ to his opposite he discloses that opposite within Christ . |
| 8 | Mr. Ratcliffe told me he could not say that an average person would not be woken by a heavy goods vehicle passing by his window and , to his credit , whilst making the very best of his brief he did not suggest that the present position is not disturbing . |
| 9 | On sustained regional tours right through his seventies he would go on playing to smaller but no less loving audiences , having no desire for retirement or inactivity . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , in place of his ideal he substituted ‘ rough trade ’ , favoured by other homosexuals of his class partly because it is easily discarded . |
| 11 | After Freud had done his worst it turned out that there was still an ‘ unanalysed residue ’ when he had a major relapse some years later . |
| 12 | To his right wing the hills sloped gently down and were of little interest but on his left they formed a steep escarpment up whose side came a soaring wind . |
| 13 | Two tables to his left I recognized the handsome young Guards major who had just become a father . |
| 14 | To his left he heard a low growl and a faint crunching noise . |
| 15 | In his left he balanced a glass of scalding hot tea . |
| 16 | Over to his left he caught a glimpse of a Georgian mansion huddled a quarter-mile off the main road . |
| 17 | With his right arm he swam , and with his left he waved wildly , shouting as loudly as he could . |
| 18 | Turning to his left he ran , making for T'ai Cho 's room and the labs beyond , hoping it was n't too late . |
| 19 | In his eighties he was a recipient of his union 's rarely given citation for ‘ services to the acting profession ’ . |
| 20 | Even in his eighties he was a fine-looking man , the more so in any kind of formal dress . |
| 21 | In his fifties he was to return to the Liskeard area , the ‘ land of his fathers ’ , and make notes for a book on Cornwall ; alas , never to be completed . |
| 22 | I said , actually , I 'd ordered his first I said , but I thought I 'd treat you . |
| 23 | While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire . |
| 24 | As an adolescent and well into his twenties he had affected to despise the whole fairy tale — the people , the properties , the false virtues , the false security it represented . |
| 25 | In his twenties he had taken up with a girl called Freda and got her pregnant . |
| 26 | I — er — I told him about his insulting you . ’ |
| 27 | In his 20s he became a director of N.M . |
| 28 | If people see Charlie on his own they say ‘ Where 's Kate ? ' ’ , and vice versa . |
| 29 | he set up on his own you see and my brothers went there . |
| 30 | Oh he he had his own You mean my husband ? |