Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] his [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAVID MELLOR has gone to the back benches nursing the belief that since he told John Major all about his expenses-paid holiday it made it okay and if life were fair none of us should have considered him out of order . |
| 2 | Together with his large family he moved to Athens . |
| 3 | Though perhaps in his blustery way he did try to be friends with them . |
| 4 | After a routine check just after his first birthday we were told that Cameron is quite normal . |
| 5 | Shortly before his fifteenth birthday he began boxing professionally as ‘ Kid ’ Lewis at the Judaean Club , Whitechapel , where he had nearly fifty contests , and when Premierland opened he boxed there thirty-five times in 1912 . |
| 6 | In June 1961 just before his sixtieth birthday he told Hartini that he was old by Indonesian standards . |
| 7 | The Singh home intrigued him because although Jazz — apart from his looks — was as normal as himself , once in his own house he took on a sort of foreign ambience , changing subtly into an Indian to fit into the undeniably different atmosphere . |
| 8 | It soon became clear that somewhere in his furtive passage he had lost his way — that at least was the opinion expressed by the Bishop of Chester as he fended off Lord Charles 's passionate advances . |
| 9 | There were those who swore that Kitchen had so perfected his technique that midway through his sliding tackle he could swerve around obstacles , like team-mates , who got in the way . |
| 10 | Now by his Holy Spirit he lives in our innermost selves , so that we become transformed into his image and likeness . |
| 11 | She looked across at Dr Neil ; the overhead light was making a golden aureole around his sandy head , and she thought again that even with his dreadful scar he was an extremely attractive man . |
| 12 | ‘ Pat would never like to be regarded as special but even in his critical condition he was still in fighting spirit . ’ |
| 13 | What was unusual in this case was that even in his great excitement he still carried the photographs of Koko and pointed to them repeatedly as he looked toward the teacher , who nodded and said ‘ Yes ’ to Sherman . |
| 14 | Here in his own house he was aloof , unsmiling , the man Jenna had first met , and it was almost impossible to believe that this man had held her , kissed her passionately , urged her to come here to stay with him . |
| 15 | Then in his foolish exhilaration he had leaped into a tree and spotted them with his binoculars . |
| 16 | Then from his own pocket he drew another , rather the same but very much shinier , and held it out in the palm of his hand . |
| 17 | Late in his recorded career he described himself as ‘ only simply lettered ’ , but his extensive citation of biblical , patristic , and canonistic authorities in both Latin and English suggests that he must have been familiar with academic sources . |
| 18 | Apart from his initial training he has been a weaver all his time . |
| 19 | Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least . |
| 20 | and he was never on his own doing it |