Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] his [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lexandro grinned wildly , for within but a few more weeks he was to have holes drilled through his carapace so that he could jack in to power armour . |
| 2 | His hair , similarly , has collapsed onto his head so that at first — I see him at the end of a corridor — he appears to be completely bald . |
| 3 | ‘ One of our biggest problems was that Chris was attracted to his work more than me , ’ said Isabelle . |
| 4 | This led to the belief that Christ 's divine nature originated at his birth rather than at his baptism . |
| 5 | When Nathaniel Sherman awoke and saw where he was , he had looked at his wife shamefacedly and agreed immediately to her request to be driven to the imperial capital at Hue where the emperor of Annam was due to celebrate the Tet festival the following day . |
| 6 | He looked at me and then sucked at his pipe again and shrugged his shoulders . |
| 7 | Mr. Keting , the informer , had suffered with his conscience ever since Richard Baxter had spoken to him , and was now terrified by the death of his master . |
| 8 | He rolled as he hit the ground , and flipped onto his feet again while he looked around frantically for the other dragon . |
| 9 | His mind had become detached from his body so that he was watching himself . |
| 10 | Lexandro imagined his whole skeleton being presented to his enemy so that execrations could be carved upon Lexandro 's bones , anathemas and runes of excommunication whereby his spirit would writhe forever — if a spirit there be — eternally separated from Rogal Dorn … |
| 11 | For two or three days after each beating , I was called to his study so that he could see I was healing properly . |
| 12 | He sat down next to her and the sofa dipped under his weight so that it was an effort to keep her body erect . |
| 13 | The third year student , known to his friends simply as Donm Lau is thought to have taken his own life just days from his final exams in modern history . |
| 14 | On account of this , very many cases from all over the world began to be brought to his audience so that he concluded several major cases in his time which were started long before . |
| 15 | This may seem irrelevant to Hamlet taking revenge ; but this scene ( Act IV , Scene V ) shows the contrast between Hamlet , who thinks deeply about actions and their consequences ; and Laertes , the man of action , who does not think at all about the consequences of what he does , being driven by his heart rather than his head . |
| 16 | Had gone to his room afterwards and lain there until the dawn , unable to sleep , Yuan 's words burning brightly in his skull . |
| 17 | He 's worked for his uncle ever since he left school , he lives in his uncle 's house and this is about all he can call his own . |
| 18 | As it is , he 's put off his fishing so as to entertain you — ’ |
| 19 | Like every other officer cadet he had spent three weeks with every hair shaved from his body so that he could be immersed in a tank of oxygenated fluorocarbon . |
| 20 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 21 | Regular sums of hard currency were put at his disposal so that he or his aides could buy whatever the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii wished . |
| 22 | I bought an expensive photograph album with a padded cover and gold curlicues on it and spent ages arranging the photographs I had taken at his house so that they were in just the right order . |
| 23 | THE owner of the first E-Type Jaguar ever built was reunited with his car yesterday after it was stolen by joyriders . |
| 24 | In the case of joint tenancy , on the other hand , the rights of each ( except the last survivor ) are extinguished by his death so as to increase the interest of the survivor or survivors . |