Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I rode with him to his castle in Dunbar , and stayed there two weeks . |
| 2 | I 've called back into his mind the spells I put on him at his birth . |
| 3 | I recently discovered the answer to these questions from Willie Lamont , as I talked to him about his approach to history . |
| 4 | I sent for him to his private address as soon as I got the news but he has to get up from Winchester . ’ |
| 5 | I agree with you on his ambiguity and the danger of flirting with such issues — you 're not telling him what to write but , being an idol to many fans , he has to have sense of responsibility . |
| 6 | Of course it 's not actually coffin-shaped , but that 's how Tony Hicks of the Hollies , who used an original Phantom XII on a number of the band 's hits ( including Look Through Any Window and I Ca n't Let Go ) referred to the guitar when I spoke to him about his original guitar . |
| 7 | Earlier this afternoon I spoke to him about his party 's ailing fortunes in the year since the General Election . |
| 8 | And once when I was very little I sat with him on his horse-drawn dray at the station with him in his bowler hat . |
| 9 | THE NEXT DAY , fourteen roses were planted in the snowbanks outside the Polytechnique with a card in Gothic script which read : Father , in the name of your son I pray to you on his behalf . |
| 10 | While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ . |
| 11 | He had then suggested she come with him to his house to help unload . |
| 12 | ‘ Naylor , ’ she turned to him with his name on her lips , oddly , his pain her pain at that moment . |
| 13 | She walked with him to his carriage , the reckless high-perch phaeton she had seen often enough outside the Fleece , his horse held now by a wizened little urchin quite blue with cold , to whom he tossed a coin . |
| 14 | She glanced from him to his wife . |
| 15 | Of course Alison was not ‘ living in ’ the house , but was often there visiting Patrick ( her help as a nurse was no longer required ) , joining Jack in his studio ( where she talked with him about his work ) , or chatting with him and Franca in the drawing room or kitchen before departing with Jack to a restaurant and taking him on to her flat for the night . |
| 16 | He had liked the way she laughed at him in his old man 's vice . |
| 17 | ‘ Not a lady to keep a man waiting , ’ he murmured approvingly , and , basking in his appreciation of her promptitude , she went with him to his car and , as he set the Mercedes in motion , had time to realise that she was n't shy , for goodness ' sake . |
| 18 | She sat opposite him in his office with the door firmly closed . |
| 19 | We talk to him in his language and we have tried to lift as much of the experience from his mind as we can so that it does n't fester , get covered over , then burst out in 10 years time and turn him into a disturbed child . |
| 20 | The Joker is a very intelligent horse and knows his ‘ covering bridle ’ which we use on him for his studwork , or his ordinary bridle when he is ridden , and behaves accordingly . |
| 21 | This form of prayer , then , gathers up all our experiences and takes them to the King of Kings , and we think about them in his presence — all the hurts , all the joys , all that stops us becoming the kind of persons we feel called to be . |
| 22 | She could feel them coming towards her from his eyes and his smile , but they were different now , quieter , triumphant . |
| 23 | To feel him touching her , to see him looking at her with his heart washed clean of all the old hatred . |
| 24 | One of his body squires heard him whispering about it to his Gascon favourite . ’ |
| 25 | He was very frightened of the spirits and they ran after him in his dreams . |
| 26 | Now he laid about him in his denunciations of England 's political leaders and institutions . |
| 27 | He stabbed at it with his talons and beak . |
| 28 | Then he searched out the little hard protruding button that was the energy of her sex , he stabbed at it with his tongue , felt her respond quickly , then urgently . |
| 29 | Indeed it was to escape this commotion of the house that young Tennyson sought sanctuary and solitude in the surrounding countryside , where he could be at peace with all he beheld and find the inspiration for his poetic thoughts which he conveyed to us by his pen . |
| 30 | He stands above me on his knuckles like a gorilla , and peers at me curiously . |