Example sentences of "his [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His each wingbeat — a convict 's release . |
| 2 | How different he was in his least gestures , even to his way of shaking your hand ’ . |
| 3 | Though from the way she remembered it , she had been so eager to be his that shyness had n't had a look in ! |
| 4 | We used to split them up and his men take his that way and th we used to bring ours this way , yeah . |
| 5 | I knew the squadron was ordered out that night and he would be amongst them , and if ever death was in the face of a man , it was in his that afternoon . |
| 6 | These Old Ones of his that Mait 's supposed to be working for , the Doctor said their consciousness — their personalities — were trapped outside their bodies , in the Vortex . ’ |
| 7 | That crust of yellow butter so important to the true English potted meats and pastes as opposed to the Franglais and the factory-produced versions , does perhaps need a little more explanation than the late Major Connolly , who refers to it throughout his little work as " melted butter " , thought necessary to clarify . |
| 8 | Various more or less precise suggestions as to the structure of such a federation were put forward by different writers in the earlier years of this period — by the Quaker William Penn in his Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe ( 1693 ) , by another Quaker , John Bellers , in his Some Reasons for an European State ( London , 1710 ) , by the author of the anonymous Cardinal Alberoni 's Scheme for reducing the Turkish Empire to the Obedience of Christian Princes ( London , 1736 ) and by Saint-Pierre himself . |
| 9 | Crawford immediately brought in as Cuka 's replacement his Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em screen wife Michele Dotrice . |
| 10 | In the late seventeenth century a new social attitude towards children began to strengthen , and it was this attitude which John Locke gave literary force and substance in what was to prove as influential as any work that he produced , his Some Thoughts Concerning Education , published in 1693 . |
| 11 | And although there are similarities , too , not least in the prodigality of the invention , the real difference lies in the music : in essence , while Busoni , ten years younger , was on the doorstep of discovering his own language , Sergei Vasilyevich had found his some time back . |
| 12 | ‘ The boy drove the whole way to Dublin on his half day to bring you home and then drove straight back and said you had to see another doctor . |
| 13 | Steve is on his half day . |
| 14 | Glass hit 91 which included 11 boundaries , his half century coming off only 40 balls . |
| 15 | But Barnett denied Garnham his half century as he missed a full toss and fell lbw . |
| 16 | And the diminutive Belgian pursed his lips and frowned into his half pint of Old Parsnip Ale . |
| 17 | Tudor moved uncomfortably in his seat and sipped his half pint self-consciously . |
| 18 | If he had grown opium on his half acre , he would have been guaranteed at least 20,000 rupees . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In Green 's Tourist 's New Guide 1819 , p.4. he says ‘ The writer was encouraged to the pursuit of painting by Mr. West , but why he knows not , his few sketches were humble , his mind untutored , and he knew none of the requisite theories , but geometry , perspective and architecture ’ . |
| 21 | In his few remarks on clause 56 , the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East assumed that it referred to British Rail . |
| 22 | He had no office in his old college , but inhabited an office on sufferance , for his few hours ' part-time teaching . |
| 23 | He put his few clothes in a neat pile on the bed and then looked round for something in which to carry them . |
| 24 | It was one of his few boasts that he had never taken an academic examination in his life . |
| 25 | He had sat in front of her , in the square little room which was used as a study , as if he were the suppliant , and had seen her sharp little eyes , black as currants , move round the room , noting the gaps in the shelves where Father Kendrick 's leatherbound volumes had been stacked , the meagre rug in front of the gas fire , his few prints stacked against the wall . |
| 26 | He had never been allowed to mix properly with women and his few lady friends were discouraged by his mother and not made welcome in the Bradley home . |
| 27 | He suddenly laughed wheezily , his few teeth gleaming blue in the moonlight . |
| 28 | He turned to me , smiling with his few teeth . |
| 29 | The old man 's come out — probably the old lady first with a bundle , and the old man 'd come out with his few possessions in a red handkerchief tied up . |
| 30 | In an hour he was ready , his map taped to the gas tank , his few possessions strapped on the seat behind him . |