Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he lay dying , Herbert handed a little book to one of his attendants and asked him to deliver it to his dear brother Nicholas Ferrar , |
| 2 | The Baskerville lawyers are trying to contact him to tell him about his good fortune . |
| 3 | It 's hit towards the halfway line , Alan the sole defender for Blackburn at the moment , he plays it to his right , forward it goes to now that 's a good ball down the far side of the field , plenty of er men available , 's one of them inside the penalty area , the cross was n't so good from and it 's gon na run harmlessly behind for a goal kick . |
| 4 | The governor , fearing for his life , drew his sword and attacked Paulus , but his aim was either too feeble or misdirected to be effective , so he plunged it into his own body . |
| 5 | He — um — he appointed you as his special envoy , you see — gave you carte blanche as far as time was concerned ; in fact he insisted that your entire stay here from day one should be regarded as being on company business . ’ |
| 6 | As he led them into his large and sunny sitting-room , his scalp gleamed in the light . |
| 7 | Then he tried it on his own |
| 8 | He found it amongst his own but he does n't have a V A C |
| 9 | Would she ? she wondered as he drew her into his special world of sensuality . |
| 10 | She raised her hand and stroked his face , and he caught it with his own , turning it over so that it was palm up , and kissing it . |
| 11 | He covers it with his other hand , draws his fists apart and holds them for GUIL . |
| 12 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 13 | An amusing parallel in the film business is an account given by the director Ken Russell of how he sold the idea of making a film about Tchaikowsky ; he described it to his potential backers as the story of a homosexual who fell in love with a nymphomaniac . |
| 14 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He told her about his old school . |
| 19 | As he lit a cigarette , ( he rolls his own from a tobacco mix in a tin ) he told me about his early life . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He bewildered her with his easy lovemaking , with the sensations that he called up so easily from way inside her . |
| 24 | Iago works on Othello 's vision-interpretation until he replaces it with his own . |
| 25 | He re-introduces us to his perfect plan and purpose for us . |
| 26 | Former New Seekers singer Lyn Paul was linked with him briefly and , in a ‘ kiss- and tell ’ interview , said , ‘ I think every time he took a girl out he compared her with his former wife , Gabrielle , and none of them came up to scratch . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Instead of submitting his organisation to the will of party bureaucrats , he turned it into his own power-base and started bombarding the party with his own initiatives . |
| 29 | He showed me round his little vegetable-garden terrace ; his cucumbers , his almonds , his long-leaved loquats , his pistachios . |
| 30 | For years , the only person who believed that Alfred Molina would ever become a star was his wife , actress Jill Gascoine , and he credits her for his new-found success . |