Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should think of you for his finger . |
| 2 | He was aware of how professional he must appear to her in his preparations for what she saw as killing and which he had been trained to see as protection of the innocent . |
| 3 | If I die for it , if David must die for it in his turn , no matter , so the spring survive and the unity grow . |
| 4 | His absence meant that Miriam could stay with him in his flat until Durkin returned . |
| 5 | Well I suppose yeah cos they could set on him on his own |
| 6 | ‘ T was the only story he 'd have from me at his bedtime , before he was grown … |
| 7 | Not for the first time he wished he believed in something as much as Gurder did so he could complain to it about his life . |
| 8 | From time to time Mr Salmon used to read to me from his morning paper , but as he could never find a mention of the Royal Fusiliers I did n't discover what the old man was up to . |
| 9 | A lay assistant wrote that the Archbishop of Canterbury would attend to it on his return to London from Canterbury , but no further communication ever arrived . |
| 10 | He would write in it underneath his sheets in bed before going to sleep . |
| 11 | Then I said that most of the money would come to me after his death , anyway — I mean , that 's what he told me when the will was read — and it would be too late then . |
| 12 | I did not regard Harold Wilson as a wit , nor was his conversation particularly spiced with humour , but it was immensely interesting because he would talk to me about his problems and their supposed solutions , and seemingly consult me on the matter — he was a very polite man — although I was conscious that on most political issues my own opinion was pretty well valueless and he recognised that . |
| 13 | Get angry about this bully , this cheap punk , this yob who reckons that you are a soft option ; this hooligan who scouts the streets for weaker victims , who wants to beat you senseless so that he can brag about it to his beer-swilling pals in the local pub . |
| 14 | But I can write to him in his capacity as Robert Atkins ' Parliamentary Private Secretary . |