Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] his [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 2 | It was a wonder that with his huge fingers he managed to avoid striking two keys at once . |
| 3 | ‘ He is an experienced player who acknowledged that he was fully aware that under his contractual responsibilities he was forbidden to make unauthorised public statements . |
| 4 | He did not know that in his last months he had developed a fatal heart condition . |
| 5 | Mackay 's financial situation worsened following the war , especially after the runaway inflation wiped out the value of the annuity he had purchased with money left him by his mother , so that in his later years he was completely dependent on the sale of his books , which never regained their earlier popularity . |
| 6 | Roe admits that in his quieter moments he sometimes wondered if he would ever win a second tournament and those doubts were intensified earlier this season when he saw both the Jersey Open and the Murphy 's English Open wrested from his grasp . |
| 7 | In the recent past Stephen has been a rebel hero , and despite his good intentions he is pressurised into rejoining the terrorist cause . |
| 8 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
| 9 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
| 10 | Hogarth also lived there , but he was often at his business address in Leicester Fields , and in his latter years he became ‘ Sergeant Painter ’ to the King . |
| 11 | They 're out for a laugh , I mean Charlie wo n't even tell me who he fancies because erm he says , you know , he said to me , you know , and in , in , in , and in his exact words he said you 've got to be really stupid to tell anyone anything in this place and I said yeah but I 'm not a proper Haileyburian I 've just come in , you know he goes yeah but you 're gon na get that way |
| 12 | And in his yellow eyes I could see only hate and evil . |
| 13 | He was famous simply because he happened to be the Prince of Wales ; and in his darker moments he felt that charities and organizations only wanted him because of his name . |
| 14 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |
| 15 | But despite his frantic efforts he was unable to pull her free . |
| 16 | But in his two lectures he contented himself with a couple of scattered references to " Apolline clarity " and tragedy 's — actually Shakespearean tragedy 's — " Dionysiac " quality . |
| 17 | But in his later years he did n't come into the smithy until after breakfast . |
| 18 | But in his theoretical essays he gives some interesting indications of the ways in which they may contribute to a poem 's effect . |
| 19 | Despite or maybe because of his frequent outbursts he was a good teacher and got results . |
| 20 | Because in his shining colours he reflected her back in coral and violet , a shimmer of organdie , pearl and secure . |