Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Excellency showed me a film he had taken of the three northern islands of the Tonga group which — being some 300 miles north of the main island — are invariably overlooked by such few visitors as Tonga receives . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's up to Foucard and his superiors to decide who the suspects are … ’ |
| 3 | His arrogance made him virile and masculine , his stubbornness gave him the character to administer his centuries-old responsibilities . |
| 4 | His mum spoilt him a lot , he was the youngest , and was used to having everything done for him . |
| 5 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
| 6 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |
| 7 | His goalkeeping won him the man of the match award . |
| 8 | We can assume that his scepticism extended to his belief in the efficacy of non-violence because he notes that reading Tolstoy influenced him greatly and cured him of his scepticism making him a believer again in ahi sā . |
| 9 | In return his subjects owed him the duty of honouring that peace . |
| 10 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 11 | Hospitals were to become a setting later in the decade for ‘ Doctor ’ films , ‘ Carry Ons ’ and such tepid dramas as Behind the Mask ( 1958 ) , but the genre can be traced back to White Corridors ( 1951 ) where , amidst the routine romantic squabbles , and an occasional lecture on the working of the NHS , two strong stories evolve : a researcher develops a drug that will kill infections resistant to penicillin and his lover secures herself a registrar 's post against nepotistic competition , by skilfully operating on a patient her rival has misdiagnosed . |
| 12 | Charlie 's hearing was fully restored a week later and a smile appeared on his lips for the first time when he saw Grace standing by his side pouring him a cup of tea . |
| 13 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
| 14 | It was quieter , with few shops , not one of them interesting , and restaurants which opened with optimistic flourishes and invitations but where , after a few weeks , you could see the desolate owner standing in the doorway wondering where he 'd gone wrong ; his eyes told you the area was n't going to revive in his lifetime . |
| 15 | But even his eyes gave her no answer . |
| 16 | And she 'd never want to , she reminded herself resolutely as she turned her back on him and walked towards the house , acutely conscious of his eyes following her every step . |
| 17 | When his lips touched hers the tears overflowed . |
| 18 | It is his intention to run one every quarter if there is enough interest from enthusiasts in the south . |
| 19 | When his ears tell him the truth , he will not listen . |
| 20 | And Joanne 's seeing through his disguise made him a bit wary . |
| 21 | On his first night back , his parents give him a party , to which they invite their circle of middle-class , middle-aged friends . |
| 22 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 23 | Mungo noticed that his window gave him a view of the field and the edge of the forest . |
| 24 | He accepted that his return made him a target for the IRA . |
| 25 | His homosexuality made him an outcast , he had no job to do , very little money to live on , and ended his days in an alcoholic haze clinging desperately to his Old Etonian tie as the last link with his sordid past . |
| 26 | It is inevitable that the Evangelist made changes to the traditions in his desire to say what the events of Jesus ' life meant for his readers . |
| 27 | The Bomb Circle , my dad 's leg and his stick , his reluctance to get me a motorbike perhaps , the candles in the skull , the legions of dead mice and hamsters — they 're all the fault of Agnes , my father 's second wife and my mother . |
| 28 | His sense of what counts , his independence , his refusal to do what the others do . |
| 29 | His room gave her a subject . |
| 30 | FOOTNOTE : If it 's any comfort to Mel , his medic told us the toes of windscreen pirates get crushed at the rate of ONE A WEEK on the busy A4 London to Bath road . |