Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six days after the killings , Laing was seen digging a deep grave for the bodies in his girlfriend 's garden in the pouring rain , using a pickaxe and shovel , said Mr Stuart Moore . |
| 2 | Although he often uses occupation and length of time in educational institutions as the axes for his displays and charts , in the text he attempts to encompass a far greater range of differences based on gender , age and expectation . |
| 3 | I 'd say his heart was in the right place if I did n't doubt that , since he has so little sympathy for the victims of his young tearaways . |
| 4 | Neumann further excuses this fast Beethoven minuet tempo , referring to the fast verbal tempo indications by Haydn for the minuets of his last eight quartets , by calling attention among other things to Beethoven 's accompanying words to this Menuetto , ‘ Allegro molto e vivace ’ , saying that ‘ when Haydn [ and , we presume , Beethoven ] wanted a minuet to be played faster than the unhurried Allegretto , he unfailingly indicated his intentions with eloquent tempo words . ’ |
| 5 | This fact we believe to be fundamental to our understanding of how he will learn ; he will learn language through an interaction between the efforts of his own brain and events in the outside world . |
| 6 | The report also claimed that the current Presidency Minister , Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , Chamorro 's chief adviser , bore legal and administrative responsibility for the actions of his former deputy and had " permitted robbery " . |
| 7 | Jelinek took individual words as the states in his Markov model for speech recognition . |
| 8 | It is useless trying to justify [ hedgerows and ] trees in terms of farming , for such unreal arguments are no protection against ten-ton bulldozers , and our wartime farmer had no illusions about the trees on his farm . |
| 9 | In uncomplicated prose he steered his readers through the episodes of his hero 's life , repeating at intervals Hornblower 's mannerisms ( his repressive ‘ Ha-hm ’ , his almost unseemly giggle in moments of crisis ) , his physical attributes ( a homely appearance , an unfortunate tendency to seasickness ) and the deeper , clinching duality of his nature . |
| 10 | I saw his eyes through the eye-holes of his wedding suit . |
| 11 | The one certainty is that he has consistently sought to secure his own position , mostly by presenting himself as a sensible centrist between the extremes to his right and left . |
| 12 | It was Minton , not Vaughan , who had become John Lehmann 's favourite and who did six vignettes for the dustjackets of his Chiltern Library classics . |
| 13 | His Government 's record on the Welsh economy will lead to the loss of the seats of his two ministerial colleagues . |
| 14 | Paul Kammerer had unwittingly fallen into an invidious trap , partly as a result of the circumstances of his times and partly as a consequence of the vicious narrow-mindedness that thinkers of every age and generation are prone to in defence of their personal commitment to particular theories . |
| 15 | The monks of Fountains Abbey fished here for trout in the Middle Ages after William de Percy granted the Tarn to the Abbey " for the good of the souls of his father and mother and all his ancestors " . |
| 16 | However the Russian " tooke occasion to deceive his Excellence , and falsify his word , hanging in the aire betwixt the armes of his servants , and but touching the earth with his tiptoes , whilst the Ambassador came out freely " . |
| 17 | That passage and the two meditative paragraphs which follow , constitute the high point of his adventure in the wilds so far , and the first true narration of the adventures of his mind among remoteness . |
| 18 | While the clergy successfully defended their claim to be taxed in convocation and not in parliament , this really made little difference to the king 's income or , indeed , to the vulnerability of the clergy before his demands . |
| 19 | He stood blinking against the effect of the lights on his eyes and felt the apprehension disappear under a new wave of feeling — anger . |
| 20 | Mewanwhile Police are starting a fingertip search of the gardens around his shop . |
| 21 | Needless to say , Mr Kilfedder , 63 , is less than happy at the intrusion of the Conservatives into his feifdom . |
| 22 | By the time Huy arrived at the house he was free of the last traces of the tormentors in his head . |
| 23 | Later in that year , after the queen had been escorted to England , Roos was appointed constable of St Briavel 's Castle ( Gloucestershire ) for life , and , in December , received a grant from the king of 1,500 livres tournois for the defraying of the expenses of his French journey . |
| 24 | As with the discussion of Rousseau 's " second Discourse " , de Man translates an opposition into the terms of his own problematic and then proceeds as if this translation had not taken place . |
| 25 | A nurse practitioner working with GP fundholders is to enter into an unusual profit-share partnership with the doctors in his practice . |
| 26 | Sancho 's death at the age of 34 struck fear into the hearts of his followers , many of whom fled . |
| 27 | He started to wipe the tears from his eyes with the backs of his hands . |
| 28 | Beaming , the love-struck man walked out of the Old Bailey dock into the arms of his fiance . |
| 29 | The fact that we had met Michael and Janet Roberts came up , and he was moved to explain that , with his growing acquaintanceship with the children of his friends — to several of whom he had become godfather — he had felt the need to adopt some sobriquet less solemn than Uncle . |
| 30 | Standing alone in this pool of moonlight , he puts his thumb and forefinger into the corners of his mouth and , staring out across the houses and the fields and the river valley to the stark moonlit mountains , whistles long and loud into the night . |