Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Office tells us that he arranged for his sister to meet him in a nearby wood and to bring with her two of her over-dresses , one white and one grey , and his father 's rainhood . |
| 2 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 3 | And what would his heart tell him about the gods , who had singled him out for this fate ? |
| 4 | Many of his views categorize him as a wet — a European enthusiast ; against capital punishment ; and in favour of sensible abortion laws . |
| 5 | But Mr Browning had told police his route took him via the M4 , over the Severn Bridge , and not by the more direct route of the M50 . |
| 6 | His route took him past the City of Dreams . |
| 7 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 8 | Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His Mum took him by the shoulders and turned him to face her . |
| 11 | Even though he had a job to go to with Birmingham Repertory Company , his agent sent him to the Rank interview for the experience . |
| 12 | He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze . |
| 13 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 14 | Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress . |
| 15 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 16 | His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses . |
| 17 | That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them . |
| 18 | At Larchgrove some expressed the view that the remedial input necessary to develop Tony 's literacy and numeracy could be provided best at a residential school , but there was a stronger view that it would not be to his benefit to remove him from a secure and caring home . |
| 19 | On May 8 Bush reiterated his faith in Quayle , criticizing the press for " pounding on him when he 's doing a first class job " , and repeating his determination to retain him as the Republican Party 's 1992 nominee for Vice-President . |
| 20 | This is the one where Paul recalls his parents telling him during the war not to worry during air raids , ‘ because it 's unlikely the bomb will ever have your name written on it , son ’ . |
| 21 | What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ? |
| 22 | Taylor replaced him and , according to Rust , ‘ preached to the admiration and astonishment of his auditory ; and by his florid and youthful beauty … and sublime and pleasant air made his hearers take him for a young angel ’ . |
| 23 | This shows that when Churchill first asked his officials to brief him on the subject , R. G. Hawtrey replied that public works would indeed increase employment , provided they were linked to an expansion of credit . |
| 24 | General Elio offered the support of his troops to maintain him in the fullness of his rights ; at the same time the Manifesto of the Persians , signed by 96 ‘ servile ’ deputies , reached the king at Valencia . |
| 25 | The man who now holds the chair in his name remembers him as a tutor . |
| 26 | It is said that , before he died , St Magnus asked his executioner to kill him by an axe stroke to the head , rather than suffer decapitation : ‘ For it is not seemly to behead chiefs like thieves . ’ |
| 27 | His friend kicked him in the ribs and asked him what he was doing down there . |
| 28 | One was a middle-aged man , rather corpulent , who sent a message into the depths behind his recess which finally produced an abashed female servant : and one was a spare man in young middle age who had his wife helping him in the shop . |
| 29 | While studying Tzintzuntzan , the anthropologist George Foster found that the female villagers would ask his wife to approach him for a favour ( Foster 1967 ) . |
| 30 | A TIPSY husband ended up in hospital when his wife hit him over the head with their Christmas tree . |