Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [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 | In return his subjects owed him the duty of honouring that peace . |
| 7 | It was quieter , with few shops , not one of them interesting , and restaurants which opened with optimistic flourishes and invitations but where , after a few weeks , you could see the desolate owner standing in the doorway wondering where he 'd gone wrong ; his eyes told you the area was n't going to revive in his lifetime . |
| 8 | But even his eyes gave her no answer . |
| 9 | And Joanne 's seeing through his disguise made him a bit wary . |
| 10 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 11 | Mungo noticed that his window gave him a view of the field and the edge of the forest . |
| 12 | He accepted that his return made him a target for the IRA . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His room gave her a subject . |
| 15 | Finally , to avoid a scene , his wife granted him an audience and Alice returned to her room upstairs to allow them some privacy . |
| 16 | His wife passed him a score . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mrs Jones recalls , ‘ I made him a robe and head-dress and his father made him a crook . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He became recognised as one of the most accomplished half-backs in the Division and his displays won him the approval of the fans on many grounds besides our own . |
| 23 | His instinct told him the Englishman 's disappearance was the best chance . |
| 24 | The IR visor of his helmet showed him the desert as if by the light of an overcast day . |
| 25 | The pain in his voice gave her a measure of satisfaction , but she did n't answer . |
| 26 | In the immediate aftermath of Wolsey 's fall from power , his advisers offered him a range of options on how to obtain the annulment and Henry responded by trying a number of different schemes . |
| 27 | When he went home to his parents ' house in Ealing or to the Barbican , his grandmother drove him the mile and a half to Rickmansworth station , which is up on the northern end of the Metropolitan Line . |
| 28 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 29 | In 1857 his uncle secured him the post of personal assistant to ( Sir ) Edward Harland [ q.v. ] , the manager of Robert Hickson 's shipyard on Queen 's Island , Belfast . |
| 30 | He spent the night in police cells — and his performance won him an audience of magistrates at Fleetwood , Lancs . |