Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] his [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of his lost schooling he could n't return to his previous class , and so was at least a year older than the other boys and girls in the class to which he was now assigned . |
| 2 | Hugh was nearest to her , and if she arranged to be on the side of his wounded arm she thought it would be easy to get away . |
| 3 | In recognition of his public work he was knighted in the 1911 New Year 's honours and in 1919 appointed CBE . |
| 4 | His impulsive gesture caused Lucy 's heart to skip several beats , and as she dragged her eyes from his hypnotic hold she became aware that , while Matt was grinning , Doreen looked anything but pleased . |
| 5 | Taking the example of an art nouveau dairy part of a Parade of shops in his idealised suburb he says : ‘ First it was new-fangled , then fashionable , then merely commonplace , then out-of-date , then ( to the sophisticated ) attractively ‘ period ’ . ’ |
| 6 | With the fingers of his free hand he gently stroked her cheek . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most important consequence of a limited partner 's role is that in return for his limited liability he must give up his normal right to participate in the management of the partnership . |
| 8 | I I 've got a bill to come in from the electrician for his call-out charge he diagnosed that it 's was not an electrical fault and then thought it was an electrical fault by the noise , it was making a fizzing noise but he does n't th he said it 's , it 's the pump the pump is on the way out it needs replacing house is built in nineteen eighty five ! |
| 9 | In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses . |
| 10 | Telling herself she was an idiot , she pulled her thoughts together and made an effort to concentrate upon what he was saying , and as she listened to the pleasant tones of his deep voice she realised he was on the subject of white-water rafting . |
| 11 | At the home of his paternal uncle he was very much at home . |
| 12 | By saying , " How odd " in response to McKendrick 's giving of his own name he fails to provide the second pair part of the adjacency pair ( Schegloff and Sacks 1973 ) which constitutes a greeting . |
| 13 | Had Shakespeare demanded reverberating resonance from his tortured prince he might have chosen to set Hamlet in the finest piece of neo-classical architecture in Europe rather than the rotten state of Denmark . |
| 14 | Some people thought that with the mitre on his white hair he looked like one of the effigies on the tombs of the prelates which they met recumbent in cathedrals , and fancied that here was a bishop out of the Middle Ages . |
| 15 | He stated at p494 : If A has the legal capacity to transfer an opportunity to make a gain and in the exercise of that capacity does transfer that opportunity to B by his own act he does so directly . |
| 16 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |
| 17 | We can not , of course , look into his soul but on the basis of his ascertainable behaviour he grew up to be a conventionally pious man . |
| 18 | So in this instance it would be made on half , if , if the husband had left his job of his own accord it would be made on half of that amount . |
| 19 | To provide for these services to be provided efficiently and to avoid the Assistant Director being involved in detailed matters in these areas to the detriment of his managerial responsibility it is recommended that an Office Manager be appointed who would co-ordinate all these activities . |
| 20 | He had hit the right note of playful yet dignified affection with the children — mischievous Sam Yaxley had proved an ally there ; and even throughout the days of his own distress he had comforted the sick and sorrowful , acting in the simple trust that , however removed chose impoverished lives might seem from his own , they were members of one another . |
| 21 | His financial position was secure for the first time , and for the last twenty years of his long life he was able to devote himself to his work of creating a Serbian literary language and bringing to the notice of his countrymen and the world the riches of the Serbian oral tradition . |
| 22 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 23 | ‘ Officially he does , General , but for the purposes of his private life he has a small apartment , a flat as the English call it . |
| 24 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 25 | By 1789 he was employing five assistants in London , his brother Robert , a solicitor in Edinburgh , was attending to his Scottish business , and in spite of his Presbyterian background he was working on Sundays to keep up with the pressure of work . |
| 26 | In dealing with the difficult topics of his own day he resorted to silence and ambiguity . |
| 27 | With one fierce and skilful kick of his aching foot he will mend a deep concavity in the refrigerator 's flank . |
| 28 | At the beginning of his second term he started to deal with the problem by introducing people loyal to the administration at strategic levels throughout the departments . |
| 29 | Before turning to the foundation of his own union he attempted to transform the Sunderland Union into a national organisation , speaking from 1885 with authority as its president . |
| 30 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |