Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] [noun] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | started working and he got one of his first pay packets he went out and bought a box of Sugar Puffs |
| 2 | With the support of his younger brother James he bought out the Hibbert interest in 1854 and renamed the firm Platt Brothers and Co . |
| 3 | Beneath his white linen suit he wears a turquoise woollen rollneck . |
| 4 | But even with his new London base it was impossible to gather enough talent from both his schools for the coming Christmas , so he advertised for dancers in the trade papers and took a chance that he could knock them into shape . |
| 5 | Over the years Fred Workman and I had kept in touch and in a note with his 1973 Christmas card he had mentioned Edna 's rise to fame and fortune , and gave me her address . |
| 6 | Along with his evil twin brother he was born of Ataensic , the earth goddess . |
| 7 | This needs repeating several times because with his notorious drip paintings he came to be thought of by some as a dripster , a drooler , a mere pourer . |
| 8 | In his blue Guernsey sweater he looked every bit an old sea dog . |
| 9 | In his rear view mirror he saw the solid yellow wall blocking the whole road . |
| 10 | He did n't recognise Aspel until the red book was produced from the wide sleeves of his costume and in his best mandarin accent he said , ‘ Paul Daniels — This Is Your Rife . ’ |
| 11 | When Patrick Forbes proffered such divisions in his excellent work Champagne it had no bearing on the regulations . |
| 12 | Anyhow , he praised Fathers and Children to its author , and in his own Winter Notes he remarked Bazarov 's ‘ greatness of spirit , in spite of all his nihilism ’ . |
| 13 | In his own wallpaper designs he had been determined to avoid anything that commanded attention the moment a person entered a room . |
| 14 | From his own vantage point he moved forward , leaning on the parapet of Blackfriars Bridge , peering down into the murky blackness of the river . |
| 15 | From the ground up to his revolving papier-mache head he is 5ft 7 1/2 in tall , wears a full uniform , and despite being armed — with a radar gun — bears no resemblance to Robocop . |
| 16 | While on his own home ground he knows how to do things , or how to get them done , beyond the boundaries of his home ground he knows , at best , only that he should comply with the rules without necessarily understanding why or precisely what all of the relevant rules are : he may simply go through the motions . |
| 17 | At the time no one denounced it more fiercely than Ayatollah Khomeini , whom the Shah had exiled in 1964 for his fierce opposition tot he Pahlavi regime . |