Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For comparison , of the 27 homosexual men who seroconverted none had suffered from bacterial pneumonia , nor had any participant been treated for complications of his HIV infection . |
| 2 | Mr Haughton was taken to Whiston Hospital and treated for burns to his chest and right shoulder . |
| 3 | The cell mate was treated for burns to his hands and later returned to the gaol . |
| 4 | In 1759 some of the greatest Portuguese nobles whom Pombal regarded as threats to his position , the Duke of Aveiro , the Marquis of Tavora , the Marquis of Alorna , were accused of conspiring against the king , tortured and in some cases broken on the wheel . |
| 5 | What Bourdieu means by modernization and modernity is clarified through consideration of his analysis of traditional , tribal societies . |
| 6 | In Ashley v Esso Transportation Co Ltd ( 1956 ) The Times , 8 February the plaintiff claimed as part of his damages for injury suffered whilst working in a ship the extra expense incurred since the accident in having to buy his cigarettes ashore instead of on board free of duty . |
| 7 | Here Gehlen collected up the thousands of spools of microfilm that over the years he had painstakingly amassed as part of his record of Russian intelligence . |
| 8 | Jodie Foster makes her debut as director with Little Man Tate , a sensitive film about a 7-year-old prodigy ( played by Adam Hann-Byrd ) torn between love for his mother ( Foster ) , and admiration for the brilliant psychologist ( Dianne Wiest ) intent on nurturing his genius . |
| 9 | They had come for Russell for his attack on the man in the car . |
| 10 | The unacceptability of certain conversion methods is accentuated for Gandhi by his belief that all religions have elements of truth and error and that no particular religion can lay claim to a monopoly of the truth . |
| 11 | I knew that such contradictions could be resolved for Jean-Claude in his work , and I felt that he , like me , should not allow them to dominate life . |
| 12 | Mr Rushdie said the fatwa , issued after allegations that he had blasphemed against Islam in his novel , The Satanic Verses , symbolised the worst of religious fanaticism . |
| 13 | Ben saw the anger mixed with sadness on his father 's face . |
| 14 | Li Shai Tung stood before him , staring into his face , a faint smile of sadness mixed with satisfaction on his lips . |
| 15 | The Goblin is almost completely unaware of what is happening around him , and he has to be carried into battle by his mates . |
| 16 | Petty responded with venom in his History of the Down Survey ( 1659 ) . |
| 17 | The informer believed he had come under suspicion by his commanders but in fact the UDA/UFF leadership suspected another member of setting up the team . |
| 18 | It was decorated with photographs of his relatives . |
| 19 | Anderson 's new lecture ( scenes eleven to fourteen ) , which is interspersed with scenes of his room being searched by plainclothes police , satirically comments on human rights under the Czechoslovakian constitution and causes annoyance and embarrassment to the Colloquium chairman , who brings the session to an abrupt end by staging a false fire alarm . |
| 20 | Throughout the trip my feelings toward him varied from fury at his incompetence to humour and pity . |
| 21 | The original plaster lay scattered in pieces on his death , it not being clear just how Rodin would have wanted it pieced together . |
| 22 | By the time the girl who had rung in response to his advertisement had arrived on the scene , the horse was already bridled and saddled . |
| 23 | Charmed in spite of his suspicion that all this was nothing more than an elaborate strategy to get the best strawberries , the young man leaned on his fork . |
| 24 | Whenever possible , the patient should be included in discussions about his care . |
| 25 | Sherlock distinguished biological aspects which were not considered in detail in his book , which focused instead upon geological aspects with particular attention devoted to denudation by excavation and attrition , to subsidence , to accumulation , to alterations of the sea coast , to the circulation of water , and to climate and scenery . |
| 26 | He never had a ‘ burning ambition ’ to be a merchant banker , he says , but was attracted to County on his return to England because it was a new venture that was attracting the smaller , rapidly expanding companies he was interested in . |
| 27 | ten knights ' fees in chief of the lord King , from the service of which he was exonerated on account of his custody of the forest , and in return for finding his foresters at his own cost . |
| 28 | Imagine the following : John Major ( the England manager ) is being interviewed on TV after his team 's 14–0 thrashing by Upper Volta under 14's . |
| 29 | President Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya , in a speech on April 15 marking the end of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan , responded to pressure on his government from a number of sources with an unexpected announcement on future democratization . |
| 30 | He saw , as though some wall painting had come to life before his eyes , the glitter of steel and the minute clusters of rainbow colours just moving over the crest of one rise , to descend into the next bowl ; and riding towards them , negligently like men out hawking , he saw a smaller group , no more than half a dozen mounted men , who had been until this moment hidden from them by the lie of the land . |