Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] his [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ Not to say meet , but Matthew Choak passed me in his old van . ’ |
| 3 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
| 4 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 5 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 6 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Wexford let himself into his own house and the dog Clytemnestra galloped to meet him . |
| 9 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Would she ? she wondered as he drew her into his special world of sensuality . |
| 14 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
| 15 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
| 19 | Jonathan prodded her with his average-sized weapon . |
| 20 | He was confronted , in fact , by a farm labourer , who helped him into his small cottage and offered him a cup of tea . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 24 | The clothier who wrote in 1760 that high wages made his workfolk " scarce , saucy and bad " was seeking to impress no one , for he entered it in his private diary . |
| 25 | He used it to his best advantage last week , when he raised the ghastly spectre of Belgium to warn unwary voters of the dangers of coalition governments and proportional representation . |
| 26 | Osborne too felt his viola was mightier than the machine-guns : he used it as his only protection , making a conscious decision not to wear a flak jacket . |
| 27 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 28 | He picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly . |
| 29 | Auguste prided himself on his immaculate memory for all matters concerning meals for which he was responsible . |
| 30 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |