Example sentences of "his [adj] he " 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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ? |
4 | At his heaviest he was 18st 3lb , and he lost seven stone in 10 months . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Meanwhile , in place of his ideal he substituted ‘ rough trade ’ , favoured by other homosexuals of his class partly because it is easily discarded . |
9 | To his left he heard a low growl and a faint crunching noise . |
10 | In his left he balanced a glass of scalding hot tea . |
11 | Over to his left he caught a glimpse of a Georgian mansion huddled a quarter-mile off the main road . |
12 | With his right arm he swam , and with his left he waved wildly , shouting as loudly as he could . |
13 | Turning to his left he ran , making for T'ai Cho 's room and the labs beyond , hoping it was n't too late . |
14 | In his eighties he was a recipient of his union 's rarely given citation for ‘ services to the acting profession ’ . |
15 | Even in his eighties he was a fine-looking man , the more so in any kind of formal dress . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | In his twenties he had taken up with a girl called Freda and got her pregnant . |
20 | In his 20s he became a director of N.M . |
21 | ‘ Oh , do n't worry about him , ’ he continued , ‘ he ca n't hear a word we 're saying , in a world of his own he is . ’ |
22 | He did what little packing of his own he had to do , then ordered up a small supper : a club sandwich , ice-cream , bourbon and coffee . |
23 | If he had been on his own he would have gone straight up but he was more used to walking and climbing , no doubt , than these policemen . |
24 | And now for some purpose of his own he shook her off , and with almost insulting lack of finesse . |
25 | It seemed that for reasons of his own he wanted to make quite sure that the woman knew how things stood , and really she could not have been left in any doubt , Maggie thought . |
26 | say if if you leave one player up front on his own he ca n't prosper indefinitely . |
27 | He wondered how much of his own he had left . |
28 | He wo , he wo n't want to come on his own he |
29 | to his own committee , to his own he would actually say well I 've been to er lead them into having a revolution , to open their eyes and then to motivate them erm now he 's not saying that , he 's saying that |
30 | Well , the night after Sandy won his Open he was in the marquee , which was holding his celebration dinner , with his apron on , cleaning up and wishing everybody would go so he could get some peace and quiet . |