Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | God 's mighty instrument is the lives that are wholly given to Him for His purpose . |
| 2 | It must be remembered that , nine times out of ten , the third party solicitor will be relying on descriptions of locus , machinery , etc. provided to him by his client — and will not have had the opportunity of visiting the LOCUS himself . |
| 3 | However , as the pope himself had been so committed to it before his election , such an outcome was unthinkable . |
| 4 | An infant who damages another by carelessly running into him on his bicycle is liable just as a person of full age would be . |
| 5 | McIllvanney suddenly demanded of me in his sour Belfast accent . |
| 6 | He merely stared at her with his bulging eyes and she went on : ‘ There are biscuits in the tin by the cooker and there is plenty of milk if you want to make yourself a hot drink . ’ |
| 7 | Sheldon had become much attached to her during his time at the Lock Hospital and it is said that she asked him to embalm her body after her death , which he did . |
| 8 | Horrible thought , but suppose she was just living with him for his money ? |
| 9 | He had dark glasses on , but I could just see through them to his closed eyes . |
| 10 | Ember just looked at her with his beautiful eyes ; a dozen forget-me-not threads of intent died on the cold wind around him . |
| 11 | Abruptly he jerked away from her , no longer touching her although still kneeling before her with his head bent . |
| 12 | ‘ In later years , ’ Philip wrote , ‘ he always referred to me as his father . |
| 13 | Did you ever remember with him with his ha , with his hair extensions ? |
| 14 | The Chief Met Officer , Wing Commander Thomas , or ‘ Tommy ’ as he was always called by us behind his back , was immensely popular but a strict disciplinarian . |
| 15 | He still thought of her as his ‘ new ’ wife even though the wedding was now a two-year-old memory . |
| 16 | Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years . |
| 17 | Joshua Morris looked down his calendar of events , carefully prepared for him by his secretary . |
| 18 | ‘ I wondered if you also acted for him in his private affairs ? ’ |
| 19 | He also thought of him as his father . |
| 20 | They clambered up onto the floor , followed eagerly by George who practically fell over them in his clumsy desire to get in . |
| 21 | It is a movement he has used many times and which is perhaps seen at its best in the pas de deux to the Meditation from Thai-s created for Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley ; in A Month in the Country when Natalia dances with the Tutor to express her emotions ; and in Les Deux Pigeons in the final pas de deux , when the Young Man has returned to The Girl and tenderly dances with her in his arms ( see page 83 ) . |
| 22 | They could also get at him through his wife and children , as the threatening phone calls had made plain . |
| 23 | Yet he accepts , as we think he must , that if a section 2(2) notice had been served upon the applicant before he was charged it would have overridden the caution which was presumably administered to him upon his arrest . |
| 24 | My father slept with an indelible pencil and paper by his bed because gags often came to him in his sleep and he 'd wake up laughing . |
| 25 | It was Newton himself , again , who , during his priority dispute with Leibniz , encouraged the notion that the conclusions presented in a classical geometrical garb in the Principia were originally derived by him through his fluxional calculus — one more ‘ fable ’ . |
| 26 | No wonder that Abraham can not bring himself to name Isaac , or even refer to him as his son . |
| 27 | He presumably bought into it with his Foreign Office gratuity . |
| 28 | Before the gig , Cud munch shark steak and nut loaf , Mike Dunphy drives a pea to the edge of his plate and then points at me with his fishknife . |
| 29 | My husband had many friends there and they sometimes called on him for his help and advice . |
| 30 | The final verdict has to be that the underlying intelligence of the man , for all his shrewdness , combativity and skill in a car , was insufficient to match an ambition that was almost forced upon him by his milieu , by his family and by his status as a Brazilian national hero . |