Example sentences of "his [noun] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She never heard the front door close , nor his foot fall on the stairs , nor even the bedroom door slowly opening behind her . |
| 2 | So the biologist was able to examine his saliva and compare his blood group with the stains on the victim 's … " |
| 3 | Investigators believed that the conversations were different and intercepted as Mr Gilbey used his car phone on the outskirts of Oxford to call Diana at Sandringham . |
| 4 | For all she knew , the pilot in the Spitfire pursuing his enemy low across the fields was Johnny , and if anyone were to die in that encounter , it must not be him . |
| 5 | A dealer will occasionally work against the system , making his clients money against the odds . |
| 6 | William Morris came on holiday here and gained inspiration for many of his fabric designs from the views he saw . |
| 7 | In his latest cabinet tussle , Yitzhak Rabin bowed to the orthodox to save his peace talks with the Arabs |
| 8 | " Organisational " reasons appear to overlap with " economic " reasons and tend to be where the purchaser , in merging his work force with the vendors , dismisses a person because the purchaser will have too many people doing the same job . |
| 9 | ‘ Not bad for a townie , ’ Jos said , casting his expert eye over the results . |
| 10 | The fight with Tucker , in the meantime , will earn Lewis a contractually agreed 80 per cent of £6m and with a clause in the agreement which gives him and his management access to the courts if King indulges in the questionable manoeuvres for which he is not unknown . |
| 11 | HE 'S no ball player and certainly not one of the game 's better athletes , but you just ca n't argue with his goalscoring record over the years . |
| 12 | He 's struggling along at present with fifty or so sheep , growing a bit of food for himself along with his winter feed for the beasts . |
| 13 | Unprecedentedly , he also gave a television interview from his vantage point as the workers filed by carrying red flags , banners and coloured balloons which they released into the cold , grey sky . |
| 14 | One of the apes that lived among the rooftops of the city scampered down and picked up the peel , then raced back up to his vantage point beside the eaves . |
| 15 | Reports came to Cley on his desk screen of the numbers of men , women and children who died every day for the sake of Empire . |
| 16 | Parkinson suggested that , since the natural logarithm of prices is normally distributed , his formula applies to ln F t rather than to F t , and his variance estimator for the logarithms of futures price changes ( log returns ) in . |
| 17 | Jeffrey Archer , who was discussing the size of his tax bill with the Features Editor of Woman 's Own , momentarily lost his thread ; who was she ? |
| 18 | He flashed his security pass under the eyes of the two armed guards posted beside the exit door . |
| 19 | ‘ Having decided to make it a musical , ’ wrote Alexander Stuart in Films and Filming , ‘ William Sterling should have had his team work on the songs until they were really worth including until they added something to the tale . ’ |
| 20 | An accident or an attack , he wondered , and stamped the snow from his walking shoes on the steps of the main Administration doorway . |
| 21 | One night after the shoot , he drove Shrimpton back to Buckinghamshire , and she let Bailey and his friend sleep in the haystacks . |
| 22 | In them he included his diary entries of the days from Nasser 's announcement to his own resignation on 6 November when the ill-fated invasion was ignominiously terminated by a ceasefire . |
| 23 | a manager might have to change his leadership style as the circumstances of his job change ( eg. when he is moved to a new job ) . |
| 24 | Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants . |
| 25 | On both his opening outings in the Foursomes he had lost but in the singles like Christy O'Connor Jnr and Jose Maria Canizares behind him he was to produce the goods . |
| 26 | Petra 's new hotel , built outside the Siq , is run by an Englishman who cut his catering teeth in the palaces of Saudi Arabia . |
| 27 | Martin walked slowly down the street , pausing at each shop in turn to flash his beat lamp at the doors and windows . |
| 28 | He knew Schiller 's history , knew his greed for what he felt was rightfully his , knew of his birthright hatred of the Jews . |
| 29 | After negotiating two rounds of the singles , Allcock and his Bentham partner Andrew Wills confronted Iain Boyle and his father Ted in the pairs final . |
| 30 | Like Donald Wilson before , Newman accepted the strength of the ‘ Dalek Factor ’ and agreed to let Verity Lambert handle Doctor Who her way after that , even though it meant his sacrificing part of the ideals he had intended the show to represent . |