Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] his [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he lay dying , one of those present lamented his lack of issue . |
| 2 | The evil monster brought his abattoir to birth from the mountain fully-formed in a matter of weeks or less . |
| 3 | A city 's Roman soldier gave his stamp of approval to the Royal Mail 's latest issue yesterday . |
| 4 | In 1728 he established a farm at Kingsessing near Philadelphia , with six acres sloping away to the river in the south-west for a garden and where horticultural work in due course supplanted his pursuit of agriculture . |
| 5 | The monk sealed his flask of ink and wrapped his pens , and the woman wiped her hands and removed the Mystery scripts to a high shelf where they could come to no harm . |
| 6 | The expert made his judgement on Sky TV — owned by Rupert Murdoch who is also boss of the paper which printed a transcript of the tapes . |
| 7 | Clearly he is a man who , on the night in question allowed his enthusiasm for sex to overcome normal behaviour . ’ |
| 8 | The monk shook his head in frustration . |
| 9 | A helpful corporal with a drawn sabre rode his horse in front of Harper to help clear Lucille 's passage to the big house . |
| 10 | THE mansion where an oil tycoon battered his wife to death before killing himself is up for sale . |
| 11 | The crisis secured his reputation as President and earned him immense popularity with the American people . |
| 12 | Although my husband lost his fight against leukaemia , a part of my heart will always be at Bart 's and I have written a book about his illness to raise money for leukaemia research . |
| 13 | What was left of Jonathan Riddle had been taken away by attendants to be stored in a refrigerated drawer until the coroner issued his certificate for disposal . |
| 14 | If the meticulous Davis was the last player one would expect to lose in such a manner , the six-times Masters champion retained his reputation for sportsmanship by the grace with which he accepted the verdict . |
| 15 | Mauve proposed his name for membership of the Pulchri Art Club , where Vincent could draw the models available without extra expense . |
| 16 | Midnight raised his head with difficulty . |
| 17 | I do n't know what I 'd have done anyway , because the jab sent his leg into spasm , cut off the blood supply , that was that . ’ |
| 18 | In the eyes of all good Texans , Alexei Sultanov that day took his place in history . |
| 19 | This was a court society : not in the sense sometimes imputed to the ancien régime of a parade-ground where a despot brought his nobility to heel , but an elite world where within shared conventions political conflict was contained and consensus was continually re-formed and re-enacted . |
| 20 | Surrounded by a hostile crowd who began to hiss and hoot , the policeman blew his whistle for assistance . |
| 21 | Dix last night resigned his post as chairman of the board of management at Newcastle Gosforth rugby club but said : ‘ It 's a little early in the day to say whether I 'll be joining Newcastle United . |
| 22 | The lecturer gave his definition of stress — a sense of impending incontinence . |
| 23 | There is a further clause in the 1950 law that permitted Manor to confirm that a man or woman was not an absentee if that person left his place of residence ‘ for fear that the enemies of Israel might cause him harm or otherwise than by reason or for fear of military operations , . |
| 24 | The photographer pulled his roll of film from the camera and held it up to the light . |
| 25 | also leeds-fan tore pedersen made his debut for oldham last night as a substitute . |
| 26 | A Tottenham teenager beat his stepfather to death with a cricket bat after an argument about mess caused by his puppies . |
| 27 | A year before his father avowed his change in faith , Cecil had journeyed to Rome and made his own profession of Catholicism . |
| 28 | " Still at it , I 'm afraid , " I replied , and my colleague shook his head in commiseration . |
| 29 | The guide took his place at centre stern and , after the raft had turned in a circle to adjust itself to the current , the paddling rhythm set in to send it down-river towards the white foam that could be seen rising between the distant boulders . |
| 30 | Like any Egyptian , the captain took his role as host very seriously . |