Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may experience a crisis of disbelief in her religious faith , or direct her anger towards the medical or nursing staff who cared for her husband , for failing to save his life ; or she may blame family or friends and have feelings of guilt and anger against herself for things that were done or not done during his lifetime . |
| 2 | Had he really died in France , or else learnt about his father 's terrible fate and secretly returned to stalk his sire 's killers ? |
| 3 | Moreover , poems produced at Cnut 's behest ( Thorarin Praise-Tongue was paid fifty marks for his Tøgdrápa ) , although obviously biased in his favour , can imply much about the ways in which he wanted to be seen . |
| 4 | Above : Although best known for his portrayal of the manic Basil Fawlty , John is described by colleagues as sensitive , thoughtful and serious |
| 5 | He remembered how fondly Jane had said farewell after her anger had abated , and the memory made him lift his hand to see , in the first creeping light of dawn , the small smear of rouge that still remained on his forefinger . |
| 6 | Charles was a cardinal at 22 and archbishop at 26 , a spectacular rise to prominence , ( although probably helped by his uncle being Pope Plus IV ) . |
| 7 | Sometimes the terrible debt he owed her was a churning sickness in his stomach that often rushed into his throat to warn him that one day it might choke him to death . |
| 8 | He knows the precise needs of our hearts , in such a unique and personal way that we experience the remarkable conviction that we are being personally and intimately addressed by his word . |
| 9 | Prominent among the king 's clerks was Walter Stapledon who became bishop of Exeter in 1308 and eventually paid with his life for his loyal service to the crown . |
| 10 | Reid was repulsed after a bitter inter-union struggle , was charged and found guilty of disorderly conduct and eventually ejected from his office as branch secretary . |
| 11 | Mr Henry was found asphyxiated and badly beaten at his home in Whalley Range , Greater Manchester . |
| 12 | Eldon Henry was found asphyxiated and badly beaten in his home in Grosvenor Road , Whalley Range , Greater Manchester . |
| 13 | Nizan 's life chances were clearly and inalterably inscribed in his family situation long before he was born in Tours in February 1905 . |
| 14 | Naturally he was eager to do business , and so turned to his training officer for assistance . |
| 15 | Although not officially appointed locomotive superintendent until 1902 , Churchward was effectively in control of the locomotive , carriage , and wagon departments from 1899 and so continued until his retirement at the end of 1921 , with the new title of chief mechanical engineer from 1916 . |
| 16 | Seb could have gone to the Hankses ' cottage and perhaps worked on his learning with Carrie , but that would have meant paying a visit to Anna in her sick room and listening to his mother chatting about the plans for the wedding . |
| 17 | Among the Peers was the Marquess of Zetland , aged 54 and better known for his love of horse racing . |
| 18 | A horse much loved and much missed by his life long fans . |
| 19 | in a personal injury action an employee who claimed damages for loss of earnings or impaired earning capacity had , if so requested by his employer , to disclose the general medical records of the whole of his medical history to his employers ' medical advisers . |
| 20 | Odd-Knut , not willing to spend our money and not inspired by his attitude , declined . |
| 21 | It is true that he seems to have been sufficiently interested to use Wagner as the extreme example of " the demonic in music " for his Germania paper on that theme ; and also that , following his exposure to the music of Tristan , some of his own compositions of 1861 have a marked Wagnerian flavour ( in eccentric combination with formally archaic polyphony ) — but this flirtation was short-lived and not repeated until his conversion to Wagner seven years later . |
| 22 | When I continued to scream at him he bared his upper teeth in an ingratiating grin and finally rolled on his back where he lay inert with half-closed eyes . |
| 23 | Four years later , aided , encouraged and finally coached by his wife Margot , the dour , muscular Scotsman was ready , his chances enhanced considerably by the absence of three American sprinters , Stanley Floyd , Mel Lattany and Harvey Glance , all suffering from the ill-conceived and , in the end , totally purposeless American boycott of the Games in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan . |
| 24 | If this was the case , Nicholl 's jacket could have been issued in 1823 and hardly used before his discharge in 1825 . |
| 25 | Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ? |
| 26 | More particularly , assurance of faith comes from knowledge of God , as objectively revealed in his Word and subjectively revealed by his Spirit . |
| 27 | He was in a small world , incestuous , spiteful , and more disliked for his unorthodoxy and his apparent arrogance that he realised . |
| 28 | The ‘ tangent … in the hand 's cup ’ has to do with the legend that the shapes of the finest Greek vases were replicated from the contour of the divinely beautiful woman 's breast , as cupped in her lover 's hand and thereafter imprinted on his mind — obviously a powerful emblem of how the impulse to artistic manufacture is erotic . |
| 29 | Shiona longed to yell , Stop ! , and pour out the truth and see the rage and the pain and the hatred of her finally and forever erased from his face . |
| 30 | Antony Flew 's atheist position is clearly and pungently stated in his God and Philosophy . |