Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 2 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 3 | ‘ Not to say meet , but Matthew Choak passed me in his old van . ’ |
| 4 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 5 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
| 6 | During my last two years at Eton , and my years at Oxford , Guy Rogers invited me to his covert shoots . |
| 7 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 8 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 9 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 10 | He contradicted himself within his own question by saying that we have no constitutional ideas and then identifying an area on which we are currently consulting with a view to making constitutional changes . |
| 11 | Wexford let himself into his own house and the dog Clytemnestra galloped to meet him . |
| 12 | Between 1925 and 1929 he devoted himself to his regenerative projects . |
| 13 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 14 | Players who visited him during his final days in the Walton Centre gave him an Everton shirt which was later buried with him . |
| 15 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 16 | After Mary de Rachewiltz , Ezra Pound 's daughter , visited him in his gloomy study in Carlyle Mansions she wrote , " I had met a great man , and Loneliness " and one friend has remarked that " I knew he was intensely — even wretchedly — lonely " . |
| 17 | Anthony Honoré , retiring Oxford Regius Professor of Civil Law , had just been canvassed by the appointments secretary when I visited him in his panelled rooms at All Souls . |
| 18 | I was so affected by his discovery that I pursued his future career with the Museum Service and later visited him in his cardboard box . |
| 19 | Would she ? she wondered as he drew her into his special world of sensuality . |
| 20 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
| 21 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
| 22 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 23 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 24 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 25 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |
| 26 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
| 27 | Jonathan prodded her with his average-sized weapon . |
| 28 | He was confronted , in fact , by a farm labourer , who helped him into his small cottage and offered him a cup of tea . |
| 29 | But his personality — assertive and brash yet essentially both cheerful and tough — gradually communicated itself to the public and helped him to his greatest triumph : his victory in the 1948 election . |
| 30 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |