Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] his " in BNC.
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1 | God 's mighty instrument is the lives that are wholly given to Him for His purpose . |
2 | It must be remembered that , nine times out of ten , the third party solicitor will be relying on descriptions of locus , machinery , etc. provided to him by his client — and will not have had the opportunity of visiting the LOCUS himself . |
3 | For a moment — then the skylight in the beamed roof was flung up , and Frankenstein 's Adam came leaping down to stand before me in his wrath ! |
4 | However , as the pope himself had been so committed to it before his election , such an outcome was unthinkable . |
5 | An infant who damages another by carelessly running into him on his bicycle is liable just as a person of full age would be . |
6 | McIllvanney suddenly demanded of me in his sour Belfast accent . |
7 | He merely stared at her with his bulging eyes and she went on : ‘ There are biscuits in the tin by the cooker and there is plenty of milk if you want to make yourself a hot drink . ’ |
8 | Sheldon had become much attached to her during his time at the Lock Hospital and it is said that she asked him to embalm her body after her death , which he did . |
9 | Unlike the infant Stephen in Joyce 's Portrait , Titus does not appear to us through his own childish language , but through a " web of ritual " ( a phrase which occurs in the paragraph preceding our extract ) . |
10 | Horrible thought , but suppose she was just living with him for his money ? |
11 | He had dark glasses on , but I could just see through them to his closed eyes . |
12 | God did not depend upon us for his creation ; indeed , I have heard it expressed rather forcefully that humankind is not one of God 's better experiments ! |
13 | Ember just looked at her with his beautiful eyes ; a dozen forget-me-not threads of intent died on the cold wind around him . |
14 | Abruptly he jerked away from her , no longer touching her although still kneeling before her with his head bent . |
15 | ‘ In later years , ’ Philip wrote , ‘ he always referred to me as his father . |
16 | Did you ever remember with him with his ha , with his hair extensions ? |
17 | The Chief Met Officer , Wing Commander Thomas , or ‘ Tommy ’ as he was always called by us behind his back , was immensely popular but a strict disciplinarian . |
18 | He still thought of her as his ‘ new ’ wife even though the wedding was now a two-year-old memory . |
19 | Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years . |
20 | Joshua Morris looked down his calendar of events , carefully prepared for him by his secretary . |
21 | ‘ I wondered if you also acted for him in his private affairs ? ’ |
22 | He also thought of him as his father . |
23 | They clambered up onto the floor , followed eagerly by George who practically fell over them in his clumsy desire to get in . |
24 | It is a movement he has used many times and which is perhaps seen at its best in the pas de deux to the Meditation from Thai-s created for Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley ; in A Month in the Country when Natalia dances with the Tutor to express her emotions ; and in Les Deux Pigeons in the final pas de deux , when the Young Man has returned to The Girl and tenderly dances with her in his arms ( see page 83 ) . |
25 | They could also get at him through his wife and children , as the threatening phone calls had made plain . |
26 | Yet he accepts , as we think he must , that if a section 2(2) notice had been served upon the applicant before he was charged it would have overridden the caution which was presumably administered to him upon his arrest . |
27 | My father slept with an indelible pencil and paper by his bed because gags often came to him in his sleep and he 'd wake up laughing . |
28 | It was Newton himself , again , who , during his priority dispute with Leibniz , encouraged the notion that the conclusions presented in a classical geometrical garb in the Principia were originally derived by him through his fluxional calculus — one more ‘ fable ’ . |
29 | No wonder that Abraham can not bring himself to name Isaac , or even refer to him as his son . |
30 | He does n't talk to us about his problems — he scarcely talks at all . |