Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many , ranging from large estates to small-holdings in towns , were given by him to his French supporters and to those English whom he could tempt over to settle in northern France . |
| 2 | Tears misted her eyes as she stared back at him , wishing she did n't feel so confused , and heard him curse softly , as though the words were torn from him against his will . |
| 3 | Much as poetry was becoming a part of him , his most natural form of self-expression , and the one that reached him first , was music ; side-by-side they were to advance with him throughout his developing days and early professional life . |
| 4 | It was Dennis , stopping off for a pee on his way to replenish the supply of social oxygen , already anxious about what the others were saying about him behind his back . |
| 5 | As his disciples were identified with him in his ministry and experienced the healing powers of the new age operating through them , so they became partakers of the Kingdom . |
| 6 | The younger James Stephen in essays in the Edinburgh Review in 1838 and 1843 , later republished and expanded in Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography ( 1849 ) , took up the tradition of abolitionist historical writing on antislavery and was joined in it by his younger brother , Sir George Stephen , with Anti-Slavery Recollections ( 1854 ) . |
| 7 | I mean , a apart from Bertha , I know he was tricked into it by his father and brother , that marriage , but he |
| 8 | The latter quality was to remain with him throughout his career , for whatever else his faults may have been , no one ever slighted James 's desire to win : to win at anything and everything , from backgammon through girls to any sport he ever played . |
| 9 | Then we got back together again and I was living with him at his mum 's house . |
| 10 | ‘ He was looking at me with his eyes just flickering with fear . |
| 11 | He was looking at me with his head to one side . |
| 12 | Gerrard was looking at him with his eyebrows slightly raised . |
| 13 | His eyes had a wildness about them , as though he might attack the boy , who was looking at him with his mouth open . |
| 14 | ‘ M-m … ’ was as far as she could stammer , for , in the next instant , Naylor was looking past her at his uncle . |
| 15 | Young Donald was grinning at him with his new look of mockery . |
| 16 | It had been taken by a pilot who was shocked out of his atheism and into the Church by what was revealed to him in his darkroom . |
| 17 | Bennet was hurrying towards them in his smart grey uniform . |
| 18 | He was wearing a burgundy-coloured bomber jacket and jeans and was thought to me in his mid to late teens . |
| 19 | He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor . |
| 20 | Up the slope , at the top of his semi-circular steps , Alexander Menzies was waiting for them in his best silk coat like a dandy at a ball , with a straightfaced young man standing by his side . |
| 21 | Ian Jack , my guide for the next part of the trip , was waiting for me with his new vehicle . |
| 22 | Mr Billings was waiting for me in his yard . |
| 23 | ( Wilde was introduced to him by his mother , a librarian , who could n't possibly have anticipated the effect and , apparently , never regretted it even in the seemingly hopeless pre-Smith days of unemployment and complete lack of desire to become gainfully employed . ) |
| 24 | ‘ Every morning this time the bus is full of nuts , ’ the driver said with violence , not even visibly addressing me , though his right eye was glaring at me in his driving mirror . |
| 25 | But there was no time now to speculate on that rather sinister connection , for Luke Travis was coming towards her with his brisk , certain step . |
| 26 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
| 27 | Despite his human limitations he managed to retrieve the underwater thorn which would give immortality , although it was stolen from him on his journey back to Uruk by a serpent . |
| 28 | Ben had stood up , facing it , and was staring at it in his usual intent manner . |
| 29 | But what he must not pretend is that he was led to this solely by his ‘ rational doubt ’ when in fact he was led to it by his faith , that is , his humanism . |
| 30 | Oliver Hill , its architect , was a chameleon who could perform miracles and build in whatever style was asked of him by his upper-class clients , some of whom were startlingly ‘ progressive ’ . |