Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " 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 His arrogance made him virile and masculine , his stubbornness gave him the character to administer his centuries-old responsibilities .
3 His mum spoilt him a lot , he was the youngest , and was used to having everything done for him .
4 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 .
5 His goalkeeping won him the man of the match award .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date .
11 It is his intention to run one every quarter if there is enough interest from enthusiasts in the south .
12 And Joanne 's seeing through his disguise made him a bit wary .
13 Mungo noticed that his window gave him a view of the field and the edge of the forest .
14 He accepted that his return made him a target for the IRA .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 His room gave her a subject .
18 Finally , to avoid a scene , his wife granted him an audience and Alice returned to her room upstairs to allow them some privacy .
19 In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ .
20 His wife passed him a score .
21 One high-earning salesperson of office equipment attributed his success to the preparation he conducted before every sales visit ; this involved knowing his product 's capabilities , understanding his client 's needs , and matching these together by getting his wife to test him every evening and at the weekend ( Kennedy et al. , 1980 ) .
22 His wife gave him a plywood Appalachian dulcimer , bought from Cecil Sharp House in London , where the English Fold Dance and Song Society is based .
23 She nodded slightly , and he bent his head to give her a kiss which was meant to be fleeting , but which went on and on until they were breathless and shaken when he put her away from him at last .
24 ‘ Ask the waiter with the dent in his forehead to give you a bucketful of ice cubes and three or four napkins .
25 He says his father wrote it a script and went to London to record it , but he was rather worried because he was a big smoker and he had to keep clearing his throat .
26 Some months earlier , in the autumn of 1182 , young Henry had once again asked his father to give him a principality , Normandy , so that he could make proper provision for his own knights .
27 Mrs Jones recalls , ‘ I made him a robe and head-dress and his father made him a crook .
28 It was his father gave him the idea .
29 It is startling to read that his father paid him a visit in hospital , though presumably without knowing his son was being treated for gonorrhoea .
30 She felt keenly alert , her nerves on edge , but his offer gave her a reason to get out of being with him and of having to cope with her muddled feelings .
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