Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he asked me to do his regular work , but I did n't commit myself . |
| 2 | He looked up , as Kemble had looked up , and then picked off each of the attendant five with a dimpled smile which impelled them to treasure his grand simplicity and unaffected openness . |
| 3 | In the event , this proved to be a smashing half hour — about an 11-year-old lad who left Germany in 1939 and who , through career accidents as well as conscious choices , found himself wearing his present hat as a champion of ‘ tools for living ’ . |
| 4 | He was , and for the sum of £1m , Mr Ames found himself running his own business again . |
| 5 | Shiona found herself watching his softened features with a feeling almost of secret envy . |
| 6 | She found herself resenting his easy assumption of professional concern . |
| 7 | Reinhardt at once invited him to join his Viennese theatre company , and within a few seasons Henreid had become one of its leading players . |
| 8 | The guy let him carry his own case and led him through into the concourse where the English driver from the Embassy pool was waiting . |
| 9 | 's many friends , customers , colleagues and family helped him to celebrate his early retirement at a party at The Cotswold Water Park , near Cirencester on the evening of Friday , April 2 . |
| 10 | Lucenzo was softening , hour by hour , the longer she was with him and the more she helped him to forget his relentless ambition and that intriguing private agony which had carved his face into such severe lines . |
| 11 | It helped him find his long-lost daughter . |
| 12 | — An ex-soldier believes his work with the OU helped him get his present job as a computing lecturer at Darlington College of Technology . |
| 13 | He met Yves Saint Laurent , then at Dior , and helped him found his own fashion house . |
| 14 | Tom 's temper stopped him reaching his true potential . |
| 15 | The title Duke of Cornwall and the estate to go with it dates back to 1337 , when Edward III created it to give his eldest son , the Black Prince , an income and somewhere to live ; it was he who decreed that it should always go to the eldest son . |
| 16 | When the train stopped he dragged his heavy suitcase onto the platform ; if you could call it a platform because it was only some wooden planks resting on a pile of milkcrates . |
| 17 | That Pakistani , or Indian , whatever he is , that 's got a fish shop , he 's bought , we were in there five minutes and before we came she knew his whole life history ! |
| 18 | But perhaps she ought to have made sure she told him to see his own doctor as soon as he got home ? |
| 19 | Just stay here ! ’ but Jean just told him to shut his big gob . |
| 20 | In Havana in April , Fidel Castro politely told him to mind his own business . |
| 21 | She had her eyes on the figure striding across the hall towards the telephone table , and the look on her face caused him to close his own eyes for a moment , for he knew how she had taken what Martin had said : although it had been voiced lightly it was meant to have serious intent , and in her own mind his marrying would mean once again that she would have notice to quit . |
| 22 | It was that very irrevocability that caused him to lift his own confidentiality order leading to OSF spilling the beans . |
| 23 | She opened her eyes , and as he straddled her watched his swollen member trying to push into her . |
| 24 | In 1831 , Scott was introduced to a ‘ Mr Wallen , a well-known surveyor ’ who advised him to complete his architectural training by working for a builder . |
| 25 | The demands of the business prevented his following his original intention of becoming a professional chemist . |
| 26 | Derek Jameson notably failed to prove that the writers of the BBC satirical programme " Week Ending " were dishonest in portraying him as stupid and lubricious : his record as editor of down-market newspapers allowed them to describe his editorial policy as being " all the nudes fit to print and all the news printed to fit . " |
| 27 | The journal also allowed him to display his growing alienation from the Bolsheviks . |
| 28 | Anthony Hope 's inspired invention of Ruritania allowed him to move his English hero straight from modern clubland into a world of castles , kings , beautiful women , and feudal loyalties . |
| 29 | It gave him more time to devote to music and allowed him to pour his suffocating feelings of negativity into songs . |
| 30 | But had a knack , a blend of humour and guile , that allowed him to tell his political masters they were mistaken without giving permanent offence . |