Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [noun] [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 's talking a bit squeaky , ’ said his mum Valerie at home in Hanna 's Road , Larne today . |
| 3 | He feared he had chicken pox and would have to cancel his debut appearance on Top Of The Pops and other shows . |
| 4 | He raised his whisky right in front of the Apache , as if daring the Apache to try the same thing on him . |
| 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 | Tellingly , neither gained any qualification ; Mitchell supplemented his ring earnings with work as a carpenter and Blake became a pro footballer . |
| 8 | A MAN accused of holding his girlfriend hostage at gunpoint at a house in Darlington for two days over Easter appeared in court yesterday . |
| 9 | Occasionally , albeit rarely , steps taken by the plaintiff in an attempt to minimise his loss result in fact in increasing it . |
| 10 | When she refused he took an overdose of his barbiturate tablets in front of her . |
| 11 | Goram , exceptional throughout his reintroduction to the side , was forced to muddy his tracksuit bottoms in response to the first of Amokachi 's many attacks on the break and the more Rangers pressed forward , the more gaps there were for the Belgian side to exploit from a midfield they dominated . |
| 12 | Harkness , 74 , reached his football peak as president of the SFA during the ill-fated Argentina World Cup campaign . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | ( 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Booth had his Test exploits as consolation for missing out on an Olympic medal in hockey . |
| 17 | Mrs Kennerley sent a copy of the letter to his campaign team as proof of his patriotism at the time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Regional customer services manager is pictured ( left ) receiving his retirement gift from MD in April . |
| 20 | His comeback ride from injury to third place at Donington last August was real heroism . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He presented Eddie with a watercolour painting and a bouquet of flowers to his wife Frances on behalf of everyone in the sales force . |
| 24 | Jim and his wife Pam met Mr Mellor and his wife Judith on holiday in Italy 13 years ago . |
| 25 | The appeal was started by Prince Charles ' cousin Lord Romsey and his wife Penny in memory of their daughter Leonora Knatchbull who died last year at the age of five . |
| 26 | Lock Terry Roberts returns after his back injury in place of Simon Gibbs in an otherwise unchanged Gosforth team . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Masri , however , presenting his policy statement to parliament on July 11 , had insisted that " we are a continuation of previous administrations " . |
| 30 | FA CHIEF executive Graham Kelly was last night accused of bringing the game into disrepute over his court-room comments in defence of Gary Blissett . |