Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the motorist did NOT ( contrry to The Scotsman 's report ) spend any time looking for a parking space or walking from it to his destination . |
| 2 | Ted puffed energetically at his , uncertain yet whether to congratulate himself on being parked up here with this very attractive young girl , or to commiserate with himself for his failure to make more than token progress . |
| 3 | The section then continues — ‘ But it shall comprise the following particulars : — ( a ) All such property as may belong to or be vested in the bankrupt at the commencement of the bankruptcy , or may be acquired by or devolve on him before his discharge ; … |
| 4 | He felt like it was asking him a question or searching for something in his mind . |
| 5 | If there was anything here that came to him from his father , it could be nowhere but in the church , and he had never yet been allowed past the gate-towers , and could not believe in any such concession now . |
| 6 | Auguste smiled weakly , than laughed at himself for his vanity . |
| 7 | If the modern manic individual is uninhibited in the state of mania because , as Rado suggests , he has regressed to a state of psychic organization that existed in him at his mother 's breast and definitely before his superego formed , then we can see that the reason why the divine kings of early agricultural societies could be described as ‘ manic ’ lie in exactly similar conditions : a situation in which the ego is not constrained by the superego because their collective equivalents — primal father and mother on the one side , and the son on the the other — have become one in the person of the monarch ( who , in this respect , is decidedly and accurately described as an incarnation of the trinity ) . |
| 8 | But despite the happiness that surged within her at his words , Folly hesitated . |
| 9 | Ressentiment is a more precise word ; he may well have been blaming God in these developing years for the loss he felt — for the anguish it gave not only to himself but also that witnessed by him in his mother and sister . |
| 10 | ‘ People coming and going ’ were to provide Bischof 's subject matter in the eight years of life that remained to him after his meeting with Rosellina ; people in camps , people displaced by the Second World War and then by the regional wars that succeeded it , from Eastern Europe to Indochina , and from Scandinavia to Japan . |
| 11 | I go and sit beside him on his boxes and feel much the same as he does . |
| 12 | The chief allotted Sycorax and Ariel three women to attend them , and then turned to face Kit , and traced between them with his staff three circles in the dust . |
| 13 | He said they must meet later , she must come and eat with him in his room and he would get a bottle of wine . |
| 14 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |
| 15 | He would be grateful and loving to her throughout his life . |
| 16 | Athelstan , still feeling depressed after his visit to Hob 's wife , ignored the coroner and pushed by him into his small , two-roomed house . |
| 17 | ‘ He got away from me and came for me with his fists . |
| 18 | At this point the Bosnian refugee leaped on to the stage on a small wooden horse , designed and built for him by his mother . |
| 19 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 20 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 21 | They were acquired by Mr. B. Hopkin-Morris and preserved by him until his death in 1933 , when they were named after him , as a memorial . |
| 22 | He was cruel and vicious and cared about nothing but his flock of swine . |
| 23 | Cornelius stepped sharply up and rapped upon it with his knuckle . |
| 24 | Soon she would go and he would forget all about her , except perhaps for those wry little moments when he would remember her childish temper and smile to himself in his superior way . |
| 25 | For a cover note to be valid the defendant must accept the cover note and rely upon it for his insurance cover . |
| 26 | One day he would find Corbett exposed and vulnerable and deal with him in his own sophisticated way . |
| 27 | ‘ Miss Kyte , ’ repeated the old lady , raising her eyeglass and staring through it at his face . |
| 28 | Something snapped inside her and she found herself grabbing the mutton and wresting the plate , with what was left of the uncut joint still on it , and running with it from his crazed presence . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , ’ he spread his hands and looked at me with his well-known youthful enquiry , ‘ what can I do for you ? ’ |
| 30 | He turned his wrinkled face towards the young hedgehog and looked at her with his deep brown eyes . |