Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1	Mauro Ferri came to Easington in 1939 with his mother and brother to visit his sister who had married another Italian , Dennis Donnini , who was a fusilier in the British Army .
2	In order to complete his case he had to challenge this deference to a patristic consensus — which he did by observing that the church fathers had taken the motion of the sun for granted because the alternative had not , in that era , been laid before them .
3	It was his fault she had to go all the way back to the house .
4	It was odd to think that even without his talent she had inherited this from her father .
5	With his help I arranged to invest some money in a shipping company called Clarrikers .
6	One morning he woke up to discover the entire ‘ ARCHITECTURE ’ section stacked so high around his desk he had to wait half the day before pupils managed to free him .
7	Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves .
8	Since his youth he had studied all forms of low life in both Paris and London .
9	Although James I may have begun to experience some doubts about the validity of the doctrine of predestination during the last months of his life , earlier in his reign he had given little if any encouragement to the Arminian caucus within his Calvinist church .
10	On the day of his death he had done some clearing up at the home he shared with his mother , and refused tea before going out of the house unnoticed .

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