Example sentences of "his [noun] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sid was sitting on the roof of his trench soaking his camouflage square with petrol from the jerry can . |
| 2 | He feared he had chicken pox and would have to cancel his debut appearance on Top Of The Pops and other shows . |
| 3 | He raised his whisky right in front of the Apache , as if daring the Apache to try the same thing on him . |
| 4 | It later emerged that he had waived about £34,000 of his £198,000 salary in response to the row . |
| 5 | He had practiced putting on his kitchen floor at home during the winter to try and prepare himself for the greens . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll deal with that riff-raff , ’ Swire Sugden bellowed , abandoning his rhubarb tart in favour of a punch-up . |
| 7 | A MAN accused of holding his girlfriend hostage at gunpoint at a house in Darlington for two days over Easter appeared in court yesterday . |
| 8 | Afterwards 15-stone Five Bellies said he was off to Rome to resume his £700-a-week job as minder to £5 million Lazio signing Gazza . |
| 9 | Occasionally , albeit rarely , steps taken by the plaintiff in an attempt to minimise his loss result in fact in increasing it . |
| 10 | Harkness , 74 , reached his football peak as president of the SFA during the ill-fated Argentina World Cup campaign . |
| 11 | Did Christ come to save man from his original sin , or did man commit his felix culpa in order to be redeemed by and in Christ ? |
| 12 | From then his career was hard graft : succeeding Brian Sellers as Yorkshire 's captain he had to rebuild the side which , although talented , never managed more than a shared title ; he won his England place on merit before succeeding Wally Hammond as captain when he had to face Don Bradman 's Australia . |
| 13 | ( Busch-Petersen , a lawyer by profession and still in his twenties , was mayor in his home district of Pankow for a few months after the revolution , before being asked to head the east Berlin retailers ' association . |
| 14 | President : Saddam Hussein has dominated Iraqi politics since the late 1970s with a small clique of relatives and supporters from his home town of Takrit in northern Iraq . |
| 15 | Mrs Kennerley sent a copy of the letter to his campaign team as proof of his patriotism at the time . |
| 16 | Harry obtained his Honours BSc in physics in 1938 and became a research student under Dr P. B. Moon ( later Professor P. B. Moon FRS ) . |
| 17 | David Young , the Lions prop , has recovered from his hamstring strain in time to be included in the Cardiff side to tackle the All Blacks on Saturday . |
| 18 | Regional customer services manager is pictured ( left ) receiving his retirement gift from MD in April . |
| 19 | His comeback ride from injury to third place at Donington last August was real heroism . |
| 20 | He did n't smoke , did n't drink and , as far as I knew , had n't put his biology theory into practice since my Grandmother 's death in 1953 . |
| 21 | We can leave for the time being , however , the implications of his activist approach to Truth in order to look again at his concept of Truth as hitherto elucidated . |
| 22 | The 39-year-old Briton drove his Renault-Williams car to victory in the Portuguese Grand Prix to clinch his ninth victory — a record number of wins in one season . |
| 23 | Lock Terry Roberts returns after his back injury in place of Simon Gibbs in an otherwise unchanged Gosforth team . |
| 24 | Citrine was thus delighted when , after several men from the industry had refused to serve under him , he persuaded Sir Henry Self to join him as his deputy chairman in charge of administration . |
| 25 | Richard Baxter movingly brought his people face to face with the great realities of heaven and of hell , with God and with eternity . |
| 26 | That said , however , the course which should normally be followed , if circumstances such as those before us ever arise again , is for the defendant to apply to the county court for a rehearing under Order 37 of the County Court Rules , and to adduce his affidavit evidence in support of that application . |
| 27 | Masri , however , presenting his policy statement to parliament on July 11 , had insisted that " we are a continuation of previous administrations " . |
| 28 | But he keeps on spending as much as before , topping up his spending account with cash from the piggy-bank , which he replaces with little bits of paper saying that the spending account owes the piggy-bank money . |
| 29 | Carey , 55 , who had spent most of his union career as president of the Teamsters ' New York branch , had been elected as president in the government-supervised elections of December 1991 , succeeding William J. McCarthy . |
| 30 | He never explained his reasons ; but obedience to his consecration oath of fidelity to the church of Canterbury would have been one reason , and the desire for absolute stability in gifts to the saints another . |