Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening , Philip , an ex-Merchant Taylors boy who has known Iain since prep school , is at home in his room when his mum calls him to the phone . |
| 2 | Jenny , now happily married , cried when she heard her torturer was dead and said : ‘ I 'm relieved I will never again feel my stomach churn when a man with his silhouette passes me in the street ’ . |
| 3 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 4 | The cleanness of his musicianship marks him as the Apollo of the new singing school . |
| 5 | The Messiah has done for us what we could never do in putting us in the right with God ; and the gift of his Spirit releases us from the need to try to justify ourselves . |
| 6 | His Burmese is n't as good as Thubron 's Chinese , but he gets on terms with the locals without patronage , and his wit gets us through the potentially boring bits . |
| 7 | His plight affects us like the unwilling martyrdom of a saint who wants to be like other men . |
| 8 | Laocoon suffers ; but he suffers like Sophocles ' Philoctetes ; his misery pierces us to the soul ; but we should like to be able to bear anguish in the manner of this great man . |
| 9 | The child wo n't get out of bed when his mother calls him in the morning : so he misses the school bus , is late for school and is punished by his headteacher . |