Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staring at him , at the strength , the energy that always seemed to radiate from him despite his easy , relaxed air , she did n't believe a word of it . |
| 2 | If every minion came running to me with his little scrap of information , I would never get any work done . ’ |
| 3 | She had heard of him from his grandfather . |
| 4 | If any doctor had depended on us for his living , then he would have died in penury . |
| 5 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 6 | Land he gave to St Augustine 's , Canterbury , in 689 , which had come to him from his parents , had been confirmed in his possession by King Athelred ( CS 73 : S 12 ) . |
| 7 | When Duval was arrested in London , high society queued to commiserate with him in his cell . |
| 8 | With heartfelt thanks he ran to the stable and , before his parents had gone more than a few yards , he had galloped past them towards his home . |
| 9 | He could n't even put together a picture of her day any longer , because she had n't allowed him to see the Bloomsbury rooms where she lived , though he had mooned by them in his car often enough , at the starts of many nights doomed to reveries of longing and revenge . |
| 10 | He felt his strength powerfully , and a joy in flight far more real and powerful than the dreams and hopes had made of it in his cage at the Zoo . |
| 11 | Owen had written to him in his own hand , a fine and scholarly hand . |
| 12 | Lack of peak fitness had told against him on his first run of the 1989–90 season when pitched in against Desert Orchid and other top chasers in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day . |
| 13 | He had advanced upon her with his fist clenched , wanting to kill her . |
| 14 | He had called to her in his dying moments , and she had thrown him a fragment of her white nightgown , which he had clasped with hope , and kissed , and kept as a precious icon . |
| 15 | Fergus had divined how afraid she was of the doll-mask and had dealt with it in his own way , daring her to let it all hang out , quoting Yeats at her in his Irish voice . |
| 16 | He was concentrating on demolishing the last of the lime and liquorice sweets he had brought with him in his haversack from Partick , and he trod purposefully on the wet red leaves with his hiking-boots as he strode along . |
| 17 | Recently someone came to talk to me about things that had happened to him in his childhood . |
| 18 | One officer who had worked with him during his short stay in the force laughingly told colleagues that this ‘ college man ’ definitely had one arrest — because he would willingly recall details of his big moment for anyone who was prepared to listen . |
| 19 | He had liked Susan Moffat who , for two years , had worked for him as his S.O . |
| 20 | On the other hand , there does seem to have been the option for the Court of Appeal to complete its unfinished business and dispose of the arguments that B had put to it in his original appeal . |
| 21 | He of course was the man of the match on th Saturday , he sat here for the interview clutching the bottle of champagne that the club patrons had awarded to him for his performance . |
| 22 | But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head . |
| 23 | Yet such evidence as there is suggests that his love for his wife had been deepened by the way she had stood by him during his years in prison . |
| 24 | The primitive ceremony which came soonest to Eliot 's mind , whether in his ‘ Beating of a Drum ’ or in 1926 when he spoke of savages who ‘ believe that the ritual is performed in order to induce a fall of rain' , was rain-making , probably because he had read about it for his 1913 seminar paper . |
| 25 | He stood looking at her in his dark , gloomy way . |
| 26 | In addition their father had told them that he wanted to speak to them in his study afterwards , and although he had given no indication what chastisement he planned , they knew from the severity of his expression that he was angrier than they had ever seen him before . |