Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] his [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bloxham looked down to see that his silk tie was comprehensively spattered with puke . |
| 2 | It 'll Be All Right on the Night host Dennis Norden searched for his cordless telephone , only to discover that his pet dog had buried it in the garden of his London home . |
| 3 | King Duncan has obviously thought that his country men were happy with his rule , and had become lax in his supervision of the outerlying parts of the country . |
| 4 | After all James was of the Stewart dynasty , so called because his ancestor Robert had been High Steward of Scotland , and had succeeded to the throne on the death of David II in 1371 . |
| 5 | However , perhaps Dowling and his NZRFU men were taking a sensible step when the included Mains in their plans to improve the media relations of the All Blacks , something which hit bottom during the recent World Cup — and they had not been exactly healthy before that . |
| 6 | In their absence , Jerry Jenkins , a veteran so aged that his court time is usually handed out in short and widely spaced passages , was required to carry a heavier load . |
| 7 | The fifty nine year-old host of The Price Is Right , was critically injured when his Rolls Royce crashed on the M-Five , at Cheltenham , in Gloucestershire , nine weeks ago . |
| 8 | The winner is still in the 2,000 Guineas but will not run and his trainer Alex Scott says we shall see him next over at least 10 furlongs . |
| 9 | He looked like a man who had just found that his tax returns had been filled in by Ken Dodd 's accountant , or that Kitty Kelley was going to write his biography . |
| 10 | Thus in [ 30 ] the speaker might be taken to suggest that he did not mean that his childhood days had just gone : what he really meant was that they had vanished . |
| 11 | This does not mean that his investment proposals need no longer be quantified in financial DCF terms . |
| 12 | Rupert Murdoch did not say that his Sky company and its associate Eurosport channel were ready yet to go head-to-head in rights fights with BBC when he announced a joint contract with them for England 's Test series in the West Indies this winter . |
| 13 | He finally snapped when his wife Hayrieye , 62 , returned to his flat early in the morning with other relatives and stayed up watching TV until 5am , said Neil Saunders , prosecuting . |
| 14 | Nick had always said that his Jockey Club duties came before his business . |
| 15 | But his vocabulary is strictly limited and his fighting skills with said chainsaw , now attached by bolts to his handless arm , inventive . |
| 16 | He dreamed the actual execution , including his head being separated from his body , and then abruptly woke up to find that his bed headboard had fallen and struck him on the back of the neck in the same place as the guillotine in the dream . |
| 17 | Mosley repeatedly argued that his Blackshirt organization was a self-defence force and that although he could have disrupted other political meetings he never chose to do so . |
| 18 | They also stated that his kind regard for his employees was unique in the entertainment world . |
| 19 | Dustin later discovered that his admission card read : Hoffman/Burns/Terminal . |
| 20 | Brace , who gave up teaching and his rugby career in Bridgend to run , said that even though there is a large elite field in tomorrow 's race , only 25 per cent are a danger . |
| 21 | A series of monetary gifts from philip IV followed the marriage , levied on lordships in Bigorre , Marsan , Castelnau-de-Rivière and Gabardan , and Gaston I served both philip and his son Louis X in war . |
| 22 | He does n't answer because his press officer has told me beforehand that he does n't intend to talk in any detail about it . |
| 23 | They would do well to remember that his record shops began by running an illegal scheme which meant that records that were marked for export ( and therefore exempt from tax ) were sold domestically , a scam that only ended when Branson was caught and fined . |
| 24 | Talking about Steve Cropper , the king of soul guitar , is a nice lead into discussing Cray 's own attitude towards rhythm playing — an aspect of his style that 's as well worth a good hard listen as his solo work . |
| 25 | Once he had finished the prior nodded and his granite face broke into a thin smile . |
| 26 | No briefing session can deal with individual problems but it should advise the executive moving abroad to ensure that his tax position is handled properly to avoid making costly mistakes . |
| 27 | Stevenson readily admits that his business talents did not blossom early — ‘ I was a most inept apprentice , ’ he says — but he successfully qualified as a CA and joined a subsidiary of the British Steel Corporation . |
| 28 | Toulon coach Jean-Claude Balatore made the right assessment ; while Biarritz had the men to hold their own in the line-out , neither Ondarts nor his mate Condom — despite their impressive international records — had the stomach for a ferocious challenge up front . |