Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His employers offered him additional wages and a partial refund of the extra travelling expenses . |
| 2 | Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme . |
| 3 | His enemies refused him Christian burial at first , but he was later interred in his grandfather 's kirk at Birsay . |
| 4 | His contract allowed him fifteen francs a day , if Zborowski could manage it , to cover all his needs . |
| 5 | His agent phoned him last week . |
| 6 | ‘ His books taught me that poetry can be pure and profound , and at the same time popular . ’ |
| 7 | The works of his so-called ‘ pink ’ and ‘ blue ’ periods were being bought by important collectors , and the fact that an established dealer like Vollard was interested in his work gave him additional prestige . |
| 8 | Throughout his long marriage his homosexuality caused him great unhappiness , and if there was any one key to Laughton 's greatness as an actor then it was surely his sense of being a misfit , uneasy in his own skin and forever on the outside of the social , sexual , and familial demands of his upbringing and conditioning . |
| 9 | One of the guys at work managed to get his sister-in-law to tape US Prime Time mid-afternoon so that we could all watch it on vdeo last night . |
| 10 | " Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his goodness to give you safe deliverance , and to preserve you in the great danger of childbirth ; you shall therefore give hearty thanks unto God … " |
| 11 | Seems I was right all the same , and if Harry 's got money to spare as he does n't know what to do with , then it 's not for us to deny his right to spend it any whichaway he pleases . |
| 12 | Hahnemann 's opposition to the ignorance and barbarism of the medicine of his day made him many enemies in the medical profession . |
| 13 | The defending lawyer told magistrate Terence Maher that Long , 48 , turned to the bottle after his wife divorced him three years ago . |
| 14 | ‘ Nichols and his writers wanted it both ways . |
| 15 | ‘ The gentleman before you complained that his lenses gave him double vision and headaches . |
| 16 | ‘ The gentleman before you complained his lenses gave him double vision and headaches . |
| 17 | His father told him that story : his father looked at him through a glass : he had a hairy face . |
| 18 | That includes a broomhandle type for three months and now an old hickory-shafted one which his father gave him last weekend . |
| 19 | His age made him senior partner , and Gemma wished he were not . |
| 20 | Now , though , his age gave him untold advantages . |
| 21 | At once his equerry handed him two files . |
| 22 | John Kane donned his waders to bring us this report . |
| 23 | Twice his quarry threw him backward glances , and on the second occasion seemed to slow his pace , as if he might stop and attempt a truce , but then thought better of it and put on an extra turn of speed . |
| 24 | Though initially little more than special pleading for Liverpool shipping interests , his journalism taught him radical attitudes , most notably a hatred of the Foreign Office , for according so low a priority to West Africa , and a sympathy for African culture , which was reinforced by meeting the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] in 1899 . |
| 25 | His mother phoned him several times and Jack had a disturbed night 's sleep . |
| 26 | After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss . |
| 27 | ‘ I am ready , ’ he announced , pulling himself to the edge of the pool and looking down at her with no expression on his face to give her any clue about his attitude . |
| 28 | His dedication brought him swift advancement at the cost of alienating his contemporaries , who regarded him as an arrogant , stand-offish prig . |