Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |
| 2 | I entirely concur with his prediction that in the end we will have to withdraw from the Province . |
| 3 | I just felt like his sister sometimes . |
| 4 | I often feel like his mother or his ‘ chum ’ , but I do n't feel like his partner and our sex life has ground to a halt . |
| 5 | This seemed to me a poor reason for making the announcement and I told him that I strongly disapproved of his breach of trust . |
| 6 | In charge of the Moose Jaw R.C.M.P. contingent was Sergeant Frank Doherty , and , as police reporter , I regularly called at his office for news . |
| 7 | I have n't done precise cal computation of interest , but , erm the rough one indicate that it is something in the region of five thousand , two hundred but I quite agree with his Lordship 's figure of five , two , O , seven , total one is one , two , one , six , three , four , O |
| 8 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 9 | Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries . |
| 10 | A James Durham died on January 7th 1917 aged 75 and I recently stood by his grave in the North Cemetery . |
| 11 | He had written letters home and to his fiancée with poems asking them not to weep at his grave . |
| 12 | He carefully put me in his pocket and took me home to show to his wife . |
| 13 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |
| 14 | Not , thought Tim , because she greatly cared for his welfare but because she liked interfering . |
| 15 | She put up a token resistance , but , knowing that she only existed on his sufferance , opened her mind to him and let him prowl . |
| 16 | She desperately waited for his answer and it looked as if he was fighting an inner turmoil as to what to tell her . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm warning you not to fall into his trap . |
| 18 | As though you just shit on his head and rubbed it in with your foot or something , you know ! |
| 19 | ‘ Did you just stand on his face ? ’ piped a nonchalant voice from above . |
| 20 | ‘ And you knew nothing about his family when you finally succumbed to his persuasion ? ’ |
| 21 | But she just spat in his face and went out , slamming the door so hard that a picture of herself fell off the wall . |
| 22 | Yet she always came to his rescue when he was in difficulties . ’ |
| 23 | Even so , there was a developing duality in her feelings towards Johnny , and though she still longed for his presence , she feared it , too . |
| 24 | In spite of this new plateau of understanding they had reached she still tensed under his touch . |
| 25 | ‘ You really trod on his pet corn before lunch , did n't you ? ’ |
| 26 | She even broke into his home and , dressed in a see-though negligee , waited for him . |
| 27 | And , since she , too , was n't at all hungry — and would have done practically anything to avoid having to sit down at such an overtly romantic candle-lit dinner — she reluctantly agreed to his suggestion . |
| 28 | He let Turgenev know that he had enjoyed his Sportsman 's Sketches , but his interest in them probably derived from his love of hunting rather than from the fact that the stories cast aspersions on serfdom . |
| 29 | We only put on his lead when we go to the vet . |
| 30 | Let me now vouch for his kindness and generosity , for he was as good a friend to me as he was to dozens of others , not all of them writers . |