Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he wants to talk to me about his future then he should do it to my face . ’ |
| 2 | Speaking about children , Fr Cunningham 's face lit up and beaming smile crossed his face ; being with them is a passion which has remained with him since his days as a teacher , and later a headmaster . |
| 3 | We 've got to keep him quiet before he starts talking about us to his new friends . ’ |
| 4 | Only once , and perhaps not surprisingly , when he talked about having to explain the implications of what has happened to him to his five-year-old daughter , Camera , did he almost break down . |
| 5 | Staring at him , at the strength , the energy that always seemed to radiate from him despite his easy , relaxed air , she did n't believe a word of it . |
| 6 | If every minion came running to me with his little scrap of information , I would never get any work done . ’ |
| 7 | And erm my brother said well you 've got ta give me some they told Joe nobody had got to go on it from his property and nobody had got to step on it because . |
| 8 | I mean David 's talking about the leaf stem I could n't care less about the leaf stem I 'm with most people I understand that Councillor Barry Jackson 's offered to look after it in his garden cos he likes it and he 's welcome to do that . |
| 9 | If he thinks he 's going to get round me with his punctuation he can think again . |
| 10 | He drove her carefully in and out of the busy Saturday morning traffic and wondered idly how he was going to explain about her to his mother , without saying where he got the money from . |
| 11 | For some reason he was terrified about what we might have said of him behind his back . |
| 12 | Ever since I ran away from Thornfield , Mr Rochester had remained in my thoughts , and now , as I stood at my cottage door that first evening , looking at the quiet fields , I allowed myself to imagine again the life I could have had with him in his little white house in the south of France . |
| 13 | Cripps denied that the books had been improperly kept , saying that an accounts clerk had been appointed to look after them after his own health had broken down in 1917 . |
| 14 | The criminal Grimes is already suspected of murdering his apprentices , and no one will go fishing with him in his boat . |
| 15 | I mean I know through the summer holidays that I 've really got to get to work with him on his maths , likewise I know I 've got a lot of work to do myself for |
| 16 | Derek Anderson , for example , showed considerable promise in a number of sports and was encouraged to work at them by his teachers , but , when asked whether he ever thought of making sport his eventual career , he replied : |
| 17 | Holly had talked with the old man and realized only later that when he spoke all those who were within earshot had listened and tried to learn about him from his words . |
| 18 | It was difficult to know whether she had understood everything he had tried to explain to her about his being involved in a case in which she was the chief witness , about his career , and how he had a mother and sister to support . |
| 19 | She had heard of him from his grandfather . |
| 20 | If any doctor had depended on us for his living , then he would have died in penury . |
| 21 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 22 | Land he gave to St Augustine 's , Canterbury , in 689 , which had come to him from his parents , had been confirmed in his possession by King Athelred ( CS 73 : S 12 ) . |
| 23 | When Duval was arrested in London , high society queued to commiserate with him in his cell . |
| 24 | With heartfelt thanks he ran to the stable and , before his parents had gone more than a few yards , he had galloped past them towards his home . |
| 25 | He could n't even put together a picture of her day any longer , because she had n't allowed him to see the Bloomsbury rooms where she lived , though he had mooned by them in his car often enough , at the starts of many nights doomed to reveries of longing and revenge . |
| 26 | He felt his strength powerfully , and a joy in flight far more real and powerful than the dreams and hopes had made of it in his cage at the Zoo . |
| 27 | Owen had written to him in his own hand , a fine and scholarly hand . |
| 28 | Lack of peak fitness had told against him on his first run of the 1989–90 season when pitched in against Desert Orchid and other top chasers in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day . |
| 29 | He had advanced upon her with his fist clenched , wanting to kill her . |
| 30 | In other words , he is free to do what Picasso was trying to do for him in his painting . |