Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] in his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not to say meet , but Matthew Choak passed me in his old van . ’ |
| 2 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
| 3 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
| 8 | It gives Boles his " She helped him in his cruel games " and the Borough its " Speak out in the name of the Lord " , one of those superb unison ejaculations which will always send shivers down the spine of anyone who hates and fears mob agreement on any subject whatever . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly . |
| 12 | He had watched his sisters slide into prostitution , through financial and practical necessity , and told me in his Spanish dialect that he had become used to sleeping on the floor at home while they fucked a random selection of Cuban , Puerto Rican and American sailors from the nearby US Naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines . |
| 13 | ‘ God help you , it 's the most exciting thing which has happened there since the man was buried , ’ he told me in his comfortably-scuffed office in Dublin . |
| 14 | Feeling drugged , and wanton , she touched her fingers to his nape , his ears , tangled them in his thick hair , felt his soft sigh as his breath mingled with hers — and still he continued to kiss her . |
| 15 | Just before they sailed , word reached Berwick from Sir Simon Fraser that Edward Balliol had crossed the Border in strength , in the Middle March , by the Note o' the Gate pass , and installed himself in his old base of Roxburgh Castle . |
| 16 | He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time . |
| 17 | For a second he looked exasperated and then he murmured something in his own language and suddenly drew her to her feet , his hands gripping hers , steadying her and comforting . |
| 18 | She was shivering against him , and he helped her back to the fire and bundled her in his own bedroll ; but she kept her arms about him . |
| 19 | Nobody laughed , and Otto assured her in his best smoothie tones that said beast was scampering in the Elysian fields and piddling all over archangels ' sandals . |
| 20 | Himmler received him in his private sitting room in the south wing . |
| 21 | At least three hours later , between midnight and 2am , he drove her in his red Golf GTI car to a garage at an unidentified address three miles away in Addiscombe , where she was imprisoned alone overnight . |
| 22 | She imagined him in his racing days driving at incredible speed towards some treacherous bend with just that same ice-cold look of control on his face . |
| 23 | He installed her in his battered van , chatting volubly on every subject under the sun other than Dr Penry Vaughan on the journey , but Leonora was hard pressed to make suitable rejoinders , every nerve in her body stretched to breaking-point at the thought of what lay ahead . |
| 24 | The Spanish pistol was still clutched in his right hand ; Maxim took it away and dropped it in his own pocket . |
| 25 | In reasserting his paternal authority , and finding his old political touch , Louis showed himself in his last years a conspicuous success . |
| 26 | Experience of the corruption and nepotism of Rome confirmed him in his Anglican allegiance . |
| 27 | The Prior joined him in his small chamber , his sandalled feet beating like a tambour along the stone corridor , his grey gown billowing around him . |
| 28 | Inevitably his mother nursed and protected him in his early years , and this was the basis of a deep , perhaps inordinately and unhealthily deep , attachment of son to mother . |
| 29 | They 'ad ter move out then , ’ Billy informed her in his easy manner . |
| 30 | Often it is itself only an inherited prejudice , just as G. K. Chesterton caricatured it in his little poem ‘ The New Free Thinker ’ . |